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‘Power Is Off…So Coates On’ !!

Mike Bartram

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 In Season 65/66…in came a new law.
It changed English footy for evermore.
If an injured player could no longer play.
A substitute player could ‘enter the fray’

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Barrow’s Bobby Knox, in this new role.
Was the first ever sub to score a goal!
He was also the first sub to save a pen.
2 pieces of history, he made back then!

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 The rules changed the following season.
Subs could be made for a tactical reason.
Managers could change an in game plan.
So a vital player became the ’12th man’.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 We had a ‘super sub’ Fairclough his name.
A Kop hero, after that St Etienne game!
He came on late, a winning goal to score.
Davey’s goal went down in LFC folklore!

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 From 1 sub, sitting on the bench alone.
Gradually to 5, that number has grown.
In 3 ‘windows’ those subs can be made.
For each change, added time to be played.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 ‘Concussion Subs’, came about in 2023.
This new law was pushed for by the IFAB.
Players welfare was brought to the fore.
This proved a much needed, vital new law.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 I’ll finish this poem, in a humorous way.
This was heard over the Macclesfield PA.
‘Substitution…Power is off, so Coates on’!
The best sub announcement ever, bar none!!

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/power-is-off-so-coates-on/

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