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Poems tagged ‘Dixie Dean’

The past remembered

Gacina Bozidar

Saturday, April 11th, 2015

I watched a thousand times
the elegant DUCHESS of YORK
smiling in the ROYAL BOX

This is from the year 1933
when one man was a goalscoring machine

The ROYAL STANDARD
at the towers of WEMBLEY

LIME STREET STATION
full of Liverpool people
waiting for Dixie and the lads

WITHOUT the sad War a few years
later, Everton would be the
champions somewhere
in the early 1940’s

But many brave people
had to defend the land
of football
that we can now remember

The football games played
since the war ended
and that EVERTON could
win the the League title in 1963
and again the Cup in 1966
and also the League title
in 1970
and to lift FA Cup in 1984
and to be
the champions in 1985
and in 1987 indeed

It is not clear what football will
be like later in this century

But in 1915, 100 YEARS ago,
EVERTON were the champions!

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Bill ‘Dixie’ Dean

Dachlan Cartwright

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

Bill Dean Rovered over the river
He disliked his nickname, the Alabama’s song-o
He ascented to head a ton of goals forever
While Aston Villa was wearing Pongo

His mates all worked at Cammell Lairds
They riveted an iron plate into his forehead
He launched a thousand ironclads just by raising his eyebrows
He launched a thousand legends for the royal blue skybrows

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