Your Nostalgia Poems

14th February 2021

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Hi – Your Nostalgia / Football Memories Poems ; 2000-Present ~ Many of these poems were first published on the original/old Football Poets site established June 2000 and have been archived by British Library. In many cases you can click on poem title to link to poem and click on poet name to link to all poems by that poet.This section on nostalgia started being collated and recorded in 2010 so 2000-2009 poems are a selection.

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 2021

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 13 Feb Maine Road Matchday ’69 steve mingle

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 05 Feb Epiphany in Park Lane kevin raymond

2020

09 Nov Right Outsider Geoffrey Winch

08 Nov The Flowers of Liverpool (Lest we forget) Sharon Jones

30 Oct Maradona 60 Sharon Jones

17 Feb Harry Gregg ~ The Man Who Didn’t Just Save Goals Crispin Thomas

14 Feb Parked Run Clik The Mouse

03 Feb Fr om rec to cheque Clik The Mouse

12 Jan Geoff Pike – Unsung hero Emdad Rahman

7th Jan Nineteen Ninety-Five Denys E. W. Jones

2019

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 17 Nov Burial of the Dead Al McClimens

05 Nov The Eddie McGoldrick show Emdad Rahman

17 Oct 130 Yesterdays (Forest Green Rovers 1889-2019) Crispin Thomas

31 Aug Tranmere Rovers Sharon Jones

¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 12 Aug This Means More. sharon wilkie-jones

¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 06 Aug Football Holy Trinity sharon wilkie-jones

02 Aug The Story of Mrs. Minchella (the peanut seller) John J O’Connor

24 Jul The 74 Cup Final willie mccloskey

22 Jun Maradona’s Second Goal sharon wilkie-jones

19 Jun We Weren’t Interested in Girls Rhys Owain Williams

19 Jun 58 Years Rhys Owain Williams

24 May Glory be! Clik The Mouse

7 May Alf Ramsey – My Part In His Success Ray Miller

11 Apr Football Railway Time Stuart Butler

26 Mar Back in time down White Hart Lane Graham Salter

21 Mar What Did We Do Before 5 Live? (1994-2019) Crispin Thomas

21 Feb My 60th Anniversary – Geof Dawson

20 Feb Going To The Game-Crispin Thomas

18 Feb This Football Life – sharon wilkie-jones

12 Feb Youth – sharon wilkie-jones

05 Feb An Ode to Football When – Nicholas Finch

05 Feb David Dangerfield’s Dad’s Boots – Stuart Butler

¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 24 Jan The Football History Boys – sharon wilkie-jones

10 Jan Remembering Georgie Best – Simon Williams

2018

05 Dec One Christmas in the Trenches ~ Centenary – Crispin Thomas

26 Nov Saturday at Barracks Lane – Alex Saynor

Oct 3 Sir Matt Busby (for National Poetry Day)-sharon wilkie-jones

30 Aug First Home Game ~ Chelsea 6-2 Wolves .30 Aug ’58 (60 Years On) – Crispin Thomas

18 Sep Where have all the Great Captains Gone? –John J O’Connor

25 Aug A Ralph Coates – Paul T Conneally

19 Jul Stand In – kevin raymond

¶ 47 Leave a comment on paragraph 47 0 02 Jul Remembering Andrés Escobar -Colombia July 2 ’94 – Crispin Thomas

28 Jun The Ineffability of Maradona – sharon wilkie-jones

06 Jun My First World Cup in ‘58 – Crispin Thomas

01 Jun Eight years old – Peter Goulding

01 May In Praise of The Football Programme – Crispin Thomas

15 Mar National Football Museum- sharon wilkie-jones

24 Feb Bobby Moore – sharon wilkie-jones

24 Feb Denis Law – sharon wilkie-jones

22 Feb Footie with Dad – Phil Brennan

14 Feb The Best Goal I Ever Scored – Stuart Butler

05 Feb Childhood Memory – Graham Salter

¶ 58 Leave a comment on paragraph 58 0 27 Jan The Day We Lost A Football Team (60 Years On) – Crispin Thomas

¶ 59 Leave a comment on paragraph 59 0 2017

¶ 60 Leave a comment on paragraph 60 0 13 Dec Orange leather footballs in the snow – Peter Goulding

¶ 61 Leave a comment on paragraph 61 0 06 Dec Rite of Passage – Andrew Detheridge

¶ 62 Leave a comment on paragraph 62 0 07 Oct The United Trinity – Ianthe Exall

¶ 63 Leave a comment on paragraph 63 0 25 July The Soul of Forest Green – Stuart Butler

¶ 64 Leave a comment on paragraph 64 0 21 Jul Canned Sardines – Ianthe Exall

¶ 65 Leave a comment on paragraph 65 0 30 Mar A Brief History of Goal Celebrations = Graham Salter

¶ 66 Leave a comment on paragraph 66 0 09 Mar The Football ‘Hard Man’ = Mike Bartram

¶ 67 Leave a comment on paragraph 67 0 18 Apr Larbi Ben Mbarek: The forgotten genius – Emdad Rahman

¶ 68 Leave a comment on paragraph 68 0 06 Apr An Improvised Match – Alex Saynor

¶ 69 Leave a comment on paragraph 69 0 03 Apr These Days……..Those Days. – John Oliver

¶ 70 Leave a comment on paragraph 70 0 03 Apr Vetch Field Elegy – Rhys Owain Williams

¶ 71 Leave a comment on paragraph 71 0 2016

¶ 72 Leave a comment on paragraph 72 0 04 Jun Fifty Years On (George Cohen) Ianthe Exall
28 May Pretending To Be Greavesie Kevin Halls
21 Apr Layer Road, 1971 Andrew Harris (Colchester Utd)

¶ 73 Leave a comment on paragraph 73 0 08 Mar Archie’s Stands – Graham Salter

¶ 74 Leave a comment on paragraph 74 0 06 Mar Spain 1982 Gacina Bozidar
21 Feb Boys On A Wall Sharon Jones (Accrington Stanley)
14 Feb Accrington Stanley FC~ The Club That Would Not Die Sharon Jones

¶ 75 Leave a comment on paragraph 75 0 11 Feb Long Gone Alun Robert

2015

17 Nov A Footballer Passes –Andrew Harris

16 Nov Why Clevedon Town – Alun Robert

9 Nov James Alexander Gordon – Alun Robert

8 Nov 1973 Cup Final – Andrew Harris

30 Oct Now That George Best Fella Is A Great Fella (RIP Dad) – John J O’Connor

22 Sep Chelsea 6 Newcastle Utd 5 – John Oliver

12 Sep Tranmere Rovers All Time Xl – Sharon Jones

31 Aug Marine v Dagenham 1968 – Barry Lenton

26 Aug johan cruyff – gareth culshaw

24 Aug Going To The Game – Sharon Jones

23 Aug 80’s Revisited. – David Foulkes

21 Aug The World Cup 1930-2002 – Sharon Jones

19 Aug Stand Athletic FC – Sharon Jones

20 AugFootball: The People’s Game – Sharon Jones

19 Aug Bob-a-man – Trent Morris

17 Aug The Anfield Iron – Sharon Jones

10 Aug Barry Joy – One of Our Own – NCFC – S B Ingle

6 Aug Fulham’s Finest – Ianthe Exall

3 Aug Vintage Clarets – Ode to Stan Ternent – Sharon Jones

25 May F.A.Cup Final – kevin halls

12 May Valley prayed 11.05.85 – Clik The Mouse

11 May The Whole Stand Is On Fire.Bradford 11.05.85 – Crispin Thomas

8 May Old Football Grounds – kevin halls

29 Apr Crossflow Winds – Alex Saynor

29 Apr Tom Finney Was Her Grandpa’s plumber – Simon Caplan

24 Apr Cheers Dad. – kevin raymond

¶ 103 Leave a comment on paragraph 103 0 18 Apr Reflections on Spain (written in 2012) – ap staunton

¶ 104 Leave a comment on paragraph 104 0 15 Apr Matthews in 1953 – Gacina Bozidar

¶ 105 Leave a comment on paragraph 105 0 11 Apr the past remembered – Gacina Bozidar

¶ 106 Leave a comment on paragraph 106 0 6 Apr Bla nchflower – Christopher T. George

¶ 107 Leave a comment on paragraph 107 0 30 Mar As I walked out on a Bank Holiday Monday – ap staunton

¶ 108 Leave a comment on paragraph 108 0 16 Mar 36 Goals ~ Hughie Gallagher – Keith Armstrong

¶ 109 Leave a comment on paragraph 109 0 15 Mar There’s only two Roger Hunts – ap staunton

¶ 110 Leave a comment on paragraph 110 0 27 Feb Passing Through – Eddie Gibbons

¶ 111 Leave a comment on paragraph 111 0 24 Feb The Revie Boys – Rob Atkinson

¶ 112 Leave a comment on paragraph 112 0 20 Feb Come on you Royals! – mark merriman

¶ 113 Leave a comment on paragraph 113 0 11 Feb At The Match With Your Dad (1960’s) – kevin halls

¶ 114 Leave a comment on paragraph 114 0 05 Feb Searching for Wolves in Africa – Ianthe Exall

¶ 115 Leave a comment on paragraph 115 0 05 Feb Football & Winter Green – Geoff Tabrah

¶ 116 Leave a comment on paragraph 116 0 02 Feb Leeds United 1970 – Wynn Wheldon

¶ 117 Leave a comment on paragraph 117 0 30 Jan The Magician-haiku – kevin halls

¶ 118 Leave a comment on paragraph 118 0 30 Jan A Lifelong Telly Football Non-Supporter – Karen Withecomb

¶ 119 Leave a comment on paragraph 119 0 29 Jan Summer of Love – Alex Saynor

¶ 120 Leave a comment on paragraph 120 0 19 Jan Evening Kick Off On Cold Blow Lane – Bradford Middleton

¶ 121 Leave a comment on paragraph 121 0 17 Jan Running with the Wolves – Steve Hill

¶ 122 Leave a comment on paragraph 122 0 01 Jan The FA Cup – Geof Dawson

¶ 123 Leave a comment on paragraph 123 0 2014

¶ 124 Leave a comment on paragraph 124 0 23 Dec I Know I’d Play Football Again Trent Morris

¶ 125 Leave a comment on paragraph 125 0 13 Dec More Than a Game Ianthe Exall

¶ 126 Leave a comment on paragraph 126 0 11 Dec Raith Rovers Coca Cola Cup 1994 Fred Wigley

¶ 127 Leave a comment on paragraph 127 0 11 Dec Forest Green Rovers and WW1 Stuart Butler

¶ 128 Leave a comment on paragraph 128 0 09 Dec Nostalgia: A Snapshot of 1955 Graham Salter

¶ 129 Leave a comment on paragraph 129 0 06 Dec A Sixties Lad’s Christmas List kevin halls

¶ 130 Leave a comment on paragraph 130 0 10 Oct Double Bill Eddie Gibbons

¶ 131 Leave a comment on paragraph 131 0 10 Oct I’ll Play On Trent Morris

¶ 132 Leave a comment on paragraph 132 0 05 Oct Coventry City-Sky Blue Years Crispin Thomas

¶ 133 Leave a comment on paragraph 133 0 05 Oct The Day We Won The Cup kevin halls

¶ 134 Leave a comment on paragraph 134 0 28 Sep Walter Tull Emdad Rahman

¶ 135 Leave a comment on paragraph 135 0 22 Sep The Greatest of them All Ianthe Exall

¶ 136 Leave a comment on paragraph 136 0 24 Sep A Game of Football John Paul Kirkham

¶ 137 Leave a comment on paragraph 137 0 03 Sep Raith Rovers and the Highland Loch Llew Beaton

¶ 138 Leave a comment on paragraph 138 0 01 July Give me the 60s The Spurs

¶ 139 Leave a comment on paragraph 139 0 29 May First Memory ~ Inside Outside – Graham Salter

¶ 140 Leave a comment on paragraph 140 0 26 May The day European football came to Connemara Peter Goulding

¶ 141 Leave a comment on paragraph 141 0 26 May Our Bob Bev Cornell

¶ 142 Leave a comment on paragraph 142 0 24 May West Germany and Montezuma’s Revenge John J O’Connor

¶ 143 Leave a comment on paragraph 143 0 18 May Javier Zanetti – San Siro hero Emdad Rahman

¶ 144 Leave a comment on paragraph 144 0 14 May An Upper Room in Westbourne Grove Alex Saynor

¶ 145 Leave a comment on paragraph 145 0 11 May Remembering the Bradford City fire disaster-Emdad Rahman

¶ 146 Leave a comment on paragraph 146 0 14 Apr The Net Result Llew Beaton

¶ 147 Leave a comment on paragraph 147 0 11 Apr I’ve Never Been Good At Football Luke Innes

¶ 148 Leave a comment on paragraph 148 0 11 Apr Bishop’s Park haiku Alex Saynor

¶ 149 Leave a comment on paragraph 149 0 27 Mar What Did We Do Before 5 live? Crispin Thomas

¶ 150 Leave a comment on paragraph 150 0 24 Mar 1960’s-The Golden Age of Football-Haiku kevin halls

¶ 151 Leave a comment on paragraph 151 0 24 Mar Hilderaldo Luiz Bellini: 1930-2014 Emdad Rahman

¶ 152 Leave a comment on paragraph 152 0 23 Mar Montalban and Kilbane Gacina Bozidar

¶ 153 Leave a comment on paragraph 153 0 20 Mar When the Groundsman Rested Alex Saynor

¶ 154 Leave a comment on paragraph 154 0 20 Mar My Bloody Bilston Début Haiku Robbie Kennedy Bennett

¶ 155 Leave a comment on paragraph 155 0 20 Mar Life, Football and Mandela Gacina Bozidar

¶ 156 Leave a comment on paragraph 156 0 16 Mar When the Groundsman Rested – Alex Saynor

¶ 157 Leave a comment on paragraph 157 0 21 Feb ‘Keepers S B Ingle

¶ 158 Leave a comment on paragraph 158 0 19 Feb Hursty v Banksy haiku Emdad Rahman

¶ 159 Leave a comment on paragraph 159 0 19 Feb Pelé, Banks, Moore Emdad Rahman

¶ 160 Leave a comment on paragraph 160 0 05 Feb Final Ties Graham Salter

¶ 161 Leave a comment on paragraph 161 0 04 Feb One Morning at Battersea Funfair Alex Saynor

¶ 162 Leave a comment on paragraph 162 0 03 Feb Andrew Watson Llew Beaton

¶ 163 Leave a comment on paragraph 163 0 01 Feb On the Tyneside Street where we lived John Oliver

¶ 164 Leave a comment on paragraph 164 0 27 Jan The Final Whistle/Echo Pink John Oliver

¶ 165 Leave a comment on paragraph 165 0 07 Jan Broch an’ Roll Hugh Morris

¶ 166 Leave a comment on paragraph 166 0 03 Jan That Guy Dickie mark merriman

¶ 167 Leave a comment on paragraph 167 0 2013

¶ 168 Leave a comment on paragraph 168 0 31 Dec Keegan two, Heighway one kevin raymond

¶ 169 Leave a comment on paragraph 169 0 24 Dec Pride of Scotland Frank McKeown

¶ 170 Leave a comment on paragraph 170 0 16 Dec Crocked kevin raymond

¶ 171 Leave a comment on paragraph 171 0 13 Dec The Squad of ’64 Ianthe Exall

¶ 172 Leave a comment on paragraph 172 0 13 Dec Christmas 1914 Stuart Butler

¶ 173 Leave a comment on paragraph 173 0 21 Nov The Knots in the Lace Ianthe Exall

¶ 174 Leave a comment on paragraph 174 0 19 Nov The Mighty Magyars kevin halls

¶ 175 Leave a comment on paragraph 175 0 12 Nov When The Dynamo Came By Crispin Thomas

¶ 176 Leave a comment on paragraph 176 0 07 Nov Durban Derby Days Ianthe Exall

¶ 177 Leave a comment on paragraph 177 0 09 Aug I watched a match on Ceefax mark merriman

¶ 178 Leave a comment on paragraph 178 0 31 Jul Teenage Crush Karen Lindsay

¶ 179 Leave a comment on paragraph 179 0 25 Jul They Lived Down Our Street Andrew Detheridge

¶ 180 Leave a comment on paragraph 180 0 23 Jul A Walk in the Park for Parkin Robbie Kennedy Bennett

¶ 181 Leave a comment on paragraph 181 0 20 Jul Bickerstaff Bryan Murphy

¶ 182 Leave a comment on paragraph 182 0 18 Jul The Name Of ‘Sailor’ Hunter Robbie Kennedy Bennett

¶ 183 Leave a comment on paragraph 183 0 17 Jul Bobby Hundreds Anthony Arnott

¶ 184 Leave a comment on paragraph 184 0 15 May Claret and blue Harry Orr

¶ 185 Leave a comment on paragraph 185 0 14 May Ghosts of legends stuart ashworth

¶ 186 Leave a comment on paragraph 186 0 11 Apr Hughie Curran Hung High Robbie Kennedy Bennett

¶ 187 Leave a comment on paragraph 187 0 10 Apr Who the hell are you ? The spurs poet

¶ 188 Leave a comment on paragraph 188 0 08 Mar Bring It Back kevin halls

¶ 189 Leave a comment on paragraph 189 0 07 Mar John Lennon P Maguire

¶ 190 Leave a comment on paragraph 190 0 07 Mar Rock & Roll is the New Football P Maguire

¶ 191 Leave a comment on paragraph 191 0 03 Mar The History Boys P Maguire

¶ 192 Leave a comment on paragraph 192 0 03 Mar The Echoes of Childhood P Maguire

¶ 193 Leave a comment on paragraph 193 0 03 Mar Fine dreams of Heaven (A Liverpool Child) P Maguire

¶ 194 Leave a comment on paragraph 194 0 03 Mar The Liverpool Way P Maguire

¶ 195 Leave a comment on paragraph 195 0 14 A Scots Laddie Called Cameron Buchanan Robbie Kennedy Bennett

¶ 196 Leave a comment on paragraph 196 0 21 Jan Musings From An LCC* Changing Room kevin raymond

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Greg Freeman
9th February 2021 at 2:04 pm

‘Get stuck in’ … the same managerial advice we were offered as 3rd Tolworth Cubs, back in the day. And at half-time, the same refrain, slightly amended: ‘The trouble is, you’re not getting stuck in enough …’

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kevin raymond
5th February 2021 at 12:12 pm

Thanks very much Sharon. Appreciate you taking time to peruse n enthuse. Hmm…are you perchance, the former poet known as PMG? Stay safe, come what may, and have a good day. Kev.

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Sharon Jones
5th February 2021 at 11:18 am

Lovely poem Kev.

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Gacina Bozidar
13th November 2020 at 9:52 pm

I am interested in the tale about The
Boot Room and Shankley

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Crispin Thomas
12th November 2020 at 11:21 am

Hi Sharon

Please see my private message re arecent use of one of your poems from Manchester cheers C

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Sharon Jones
9th October 2020 at 8:17 pm

Hi Daniel,

Good to see you are still writing about the ‘Tic. Hope all is good with you.

Best, Sharon

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Crispin Thomas
4th October 2020 at 9:52 am

So true mate.

You’re certainly not alone in your thinking. I get incensed sometimes.

Aside from the endless and stillwith its -here once labelled Fergie Time moments ,we now have VAR with its far off decisions by supposed ‘neutrals’ .

So …the supposed influenced ‘integrity’ of refs and neutrals favouritism ?

You could tuck it away into some corner and call it yet another football conspiracy theory, (like analyzing and searching to find which teams refs follow and VAR assistant refs (if we knew ) but it still occurs too often for me.

It raises the question is there such a thing a a real neutral. Everyone who watches football definitely supports or has a soft spot for some club however tenuous..

BTW When I was 10 and the Munich Air Crash happened. i (and many at my school in Fulham) was a Chesea fan but took United on as my second lcub for a season through that awfdul time. Now FGR are my life and my team in the next village and i drum (when we get back) on the terrace at 72 with the young kids and scoff vegan pies and get bwind Dale’s green vision for the planet …

Go well Attila and stry safe with your good lady….

Best Crispin

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Crispin Thomas
18th September 2020 at 5:39 pm

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

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Sharon Jones
16th September 2020 at 5:51 pm

Sorted! Cheers. SJ

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Crispin Thomas
6th September 2020 at 6:23 pm

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

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