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Museum Pieces

Mark Thomas

Friday, February 17th, 2006

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Sir Roger’s World Cup medal
A rusty barrier from The Kop
Davey Fairclough’s little boots
And Keegan’s England top
Kenny’s vast array of medals
Saint Michael’s Golden Ball
Cups and prizes all around
Neal’s quartet the best of all
Ninety-six tiny football shirts
That bear the angels’ names
Tickets, programmes, trinkets
From all of the famous games
Faded ‘papers tell of past glories
An old turnstile goes clickety-clack
The Heysel fallen remembered
Our dark day marked by a plaque
Pennants made from coloured silk
A lion growls on Liddell’s jersey
Bob Paisley’s troll watches over
The fifth, at home on The Mersey
Red banners so carefully crafted
In praise of Carra and Stevie G.
And stood in a case, a photograph
Of the great man Shanks and me

Notes

On permanent display in the Liverpool F.C. Museum at Anfield, is a photograph taken in Bill Shankly’s office in 1972. I am sitting in his chair and Bill is standing behind me.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/museum-pieces/