Football Poets

nice one sorting a pic to go with..off to a trial run with several hundfred masked fans v Bradgford at FGR tomorrow

Sorted! Cheers. SJ

Hi again

This message from Ken via the site.

Ken Storey

mail: kensart@talktalk.net

Message: Message for Sharon Jones. I hadn’t been able to contact you as your email seems to have lapsed and would like to know if you still want your Liverpool Christ painting. Let me know if you want it and when you can pick it up from me at 27 Mentmore Road L18 4PU. Hope you are well. Best wishes Ken Storey

Hi Sharon-PLEASE CONFIRM RECEIVED

This request from Gavin via the site. Can you get back to him please. If you don’t want to do it let me know, I might have a go.

Name: Gavin Blackwell

Email: gavinleelee@hotmail.co.uk

Message: Hi,

I am looking to make contact with Sharon Jones to see if can or someone could write a poem from my article The Brutality of life of the football Physio?

Best Regards

Gavin Blackwell

Hi Crispin,

I’ve only just seen your comment about a photo of the gates. I will dig one out.

I’ve still not been to The New Lawn but I do hope to get there one day.

Martyn

Woohoo….sentiment shared Denys.

I thought the huge No 3 on Chelsea’s new shirts strange enough.

Keep on mate.. C

Neil,

thanks for introducing us to a poetic form that we haven’t seen or utilized here!

It sets us an interesting challenge!

Hi Neil -hope you’re happy with the way it’s laid out. (Thanks Christian). I think from memory, this is the first ever hay(na)ku on Football Poets here on this or the old site in 20 years!

Coincidentally, re C.O.A, Michael Horovitz is very much associated with Stroud and Slad in particular (also the home of Laurie Lee.)

Stroud is  where Football Poets as a website began in 2000 and where Michael’s son Adam Horovitz lives. Adam is a fine pastoral and performance poet and a good friend. If you do a search in the search button he does have 4 football poems on here being a Sunderland fan.

Stroud is also close to Forest Green Rovers, who I follow regularly these days, and is also where I am based. I grew up  close to Stamford Bridge in London having followed Chelsea for 50 years

Re WBA… Great community club. I worked there several times in the 2000s running anti-racism football poetry workshops with young local school students, as part of their Football In The Community programme

Best wishes

Crispin

Hi Martyn

I tried to find a pic of the old Crittall gates at Braitntree to feature on the page with your poem,  without sucess.Was interested to see them.

As a regular Forest Green fan (don’t scream!) I’m really familiar with the Iron iron and meeting up with your fans when they came up here on the hill for games.

I also still  remember well, the NL 2015 play offs and how close you came back in the Cowley (pre-Lincoln/Huddersfield) days v Grimsby, who we of course lost to at Wembley.

Keep on.  Crispin

Great Lines Leonie…sentiment shared..but we will get through this..And think how anazing it will be be to get back to to our grounds, our friends and our teams…

best Crispin