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Archive for July, 2004

Welcome to Alan McKean & Glenn & …..

When I returned from a trip away last year, there was someone who had just started submitting to the site : Peter Goulding – and what an impact he’s had! Pete has to be one of our most poular and prolific poets. Having just returned again from holyers, I’m enjoying catching up with another new […]

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Football’s Second Nature

The day England played Portugal, My daughter, Charlotte, left for Geneva, And that dawn, I watched a skein of ducks Silhouette the widening, reddening sky, While I stood staring, thinking of her in her ‘plane, While I stood staring, stuck in my suburban back garden. But I love my Stroud suburbs, all that Edwardian red […]

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9/11 Congressional Inquiry

“I spy with my little eye, I think, and, so, am I”, That’s what the football manager said, Irresolutely shaking his head, For when his team has internal divisions, Racked and riven by domestic schisms, The manager then blames luck and chance, Rather than a failure of intelligence; The manager rarely blames himself, It’s always […]

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Welcome to our German Friends

Welcome to our German friends – we have just received an interesting batch of contributions from a German school. It’s good to see – crikey, we struggle to write poetry in our own language let alone somebody else’s. So well done – let’s hope some British schools start writing poetry in German. All this has […]

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Tom Finney

Tom Finney is adding his name to our book, which we hope to get out in the late autumn. The piece below is a copy of the letter I sent to him via Parry and Crispin. I was thrilled to receive a signed photograph from Tom in the post. It has pride of place on […]

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/news/2004/07/