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Archive for December, 2004

Swindon Town versus Colchester United

In a way, I couldn’t be bothered to put pen to paper, It didn’t seem right to write: All those bleeding heart Guardian letter page liberals, All that competitive outpouring of sympathy And right-on condemnation of western culture; Debates about the existence of God, The inexorable might of Nature, And the wonders of a goat […]

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Let Football Wait & Kicking It Out With The Football Poets 04

Let Football Wait how can I ever again wait anxiously for news of other teams scores – while thousands wait anxiously for news of their lost loved ones? how can I ever without guilt look forward now to “important” games or anything when countless torn families have nothing to look forward to with vanished husbands […]

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December review

For the first nine days of December, it didn’t look as if there were going to be any new contributors to the site – but now we can announce almost a whole first XI ; Steve Linstead Ian Beesley Andrew Smale D Aiken A Cosgrove Ken Bushnell Richard G Nyland Samia Iftekhar Andrew Foan Gerry […]

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all our readers and writers wherever you may be : from Danny in Canada, to Llew in Australia and everyone at many points in between. I thought there might be a let up in the number of poems submitted, coming up to Christmas, but not a bit of it. Plenty of new […]

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War and Christmas – 2 pieces for peace

Christmas 1914 It came upon a midnight clear, That glorious song of old, And the angels bent down to the earth, And the machine guns changed into harps, And the leaden bullets turned into golden carols That drifted across no man’s land, On an otherwise silent but holy night, And all was clear and all […]

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School News on the Trenches and Kick It Out

Lesson plans available from me on the Christmas Truce football theme- might be too late for this year but it’ll soon be round again, won’t it? Contact me at Brockworth Enterprise School, Gloucester. Also, a new Kick It Out competition for the new year; look at www.irespect.net for details. PS. It would be marvellous if […]

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Christmas Truce, 1914

Ceasefire, Christmas 1914 Haiku mud and blood mixed likewise friend and foe what a match, 1914 note : For anybody interested in the subject of the Christmas Day Truce of 1914, and the match played in No Man’s Land, then check out the Archive section of this site. There is also a section dedicated to […]

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