Poems by Alan McKean
- What, me ref?
- The man who kicks the ball
- I weep for football
- Team Sheet
- Georgie
- P45
- Hope
- Dropsy
- Rules
- Untitled
- Away goal
- And so it begins
- up for t’cup
- The Trench (haiku)
- Job done
- Heroes
- Chip paper
- Return
- Forget-me-not
- Surprise
- Per person per week
- Communion
- Kick off
- Half time
- Migration
- Wiggin
- Th’owd Mon
- Ah well
- Short term memory
- Gift of the Gub
- Millions
- 31st January
- Kickabout
- Setting Sun
- Game haiku 10
- game haiku 11
- game haiku 14
- Bragging rights
- England expects
- 3 Stooges
- The Yellow Card Song
- Pavane
- Strong man
- Homeward bound
- Haiku haiku
- Gooooooaaaaallllllll
- Goooaalll 2
- Whew
- Isla’s dream
- My first kit
- 2 Goals for Fabrice
- Bermuda Triangle
- Meet me at the turnstile
- Contract
- By pass
- Cliche
- Finally
- Speedy
- Know All
- Wantaway Tevez Tanka
- Parting Gift
- Roller Coaster
- Hope
- Mike Doyle
- Our Game (haiku format)
- Blow the whistle Mr Webb
- Empty Tracksuit
- Transfer Window
- Sleeping Lion
- Happy Wanderer
- Squeaky Bum Tanka
- Wantaway
- Mr Allison
- Running the line
- Top of The Tower
- Question (haiku)
- Viva Espagne (haiku)
- Leaving on a jet plane (tanka)
- Who’d be a goalie?
- Half Time Tanka
- It was 44 years ago – move on
- Happy Birthday Football Poets
- Golden Mile (quick haiku)
- Kev’s Tanka
- Relegation Blues
- We dared to dream
- Match Report
- Surprise Tanka
- Icon
- False Dawn
- We dare to dream
- Empty seat
- Hard day at the office
- Pratfall (quick tanka)
- Thug
- Gentleman
- Turf Moor Tanka
- Relegation Blues
- Don’t kiss the badge
- Pennine Heartache
- The obscenity of numbers
- Respect (quick tanka)
- Boxing Day game (Tune – God rest ye )
- Aliens at The Reebok
- Warm Glow
- Tigers
- Art Deco
- Tomorrows Millionaires
- On a field of green
- In the trenches
- Yob
- Coin
- Thin Ice at the Reebok
- Eastern Promise
- Lemons at half time
- Pavane (Season’s end)
- Rochdale
- Where the hell are you?
- Farce in the rain
- Saviour
- 6258
- The man in the middle
- Manager
- Downfall
- Television
- Autumn Leaf
- Goal
- Battered, bruised and Bolton
- Bolton – up and running
- Wee boy
- Result
- The boys are back
- Untitled
- Evolution
- Alan Ball tanka
- Bolton v Reading, April 07
- Cup 07
- Red Tide
- A Good Game (but it failed to break out)
- McClaren’s Tanka
- So that’s the cup then.
- January Sales
- Lonely Road
- Dollar Bill (Senryu)
- Curse (Revision)
- Battered and bruised
- Aliens
- Hero
- Envelope (a quick haiku)
- Heart and Soul
- Crewe V Huddersfield 2/9/06
- 2:59
- Accy’s Back
- John Willie, Referee
- New Season
- Diving Board
- The Look (Haiku)
- I don’t care about Rooney’s foot
- World Cup – Preliminary Round
- Rooney’s Foot
- Middlesborough Farewell
- Joust
- Knife Edge
- Accrington Stanley
- Play Offs
- The Dein Supremacy
- Knife Edge
- Elephant Tanka
- Division 2
- Oscar
- Derby Game
- Broken dream
- Bottom
- Riddle
- National Coach
- In the stands
- Out
- 8.8.3
- Upside down cake
- Our cat for England
- Called Off
- The Ballad of Billy No Mates
- Responsive thanks
- Fizz in Heaven
- Wall of Sound
- Wizard of the worldly game
- On the Road
- Magician
- Reputations
- Canvas
- Dances with Dolphins
- Muddy Shoes
- Turkish Delight
- Wigan Wonderland
- Everton’s European Holiday
- Continuing Dream
- Final Whistle
- Premier Dust
- First Steps
- Lattice
- Rooney
- Generations
- Annie’s Tanka 695
- Manager’s Bingo
- Not Alone
- Pick me Sir
- Newcomers (Revised)
- Magic Carpet
- Egos in Boots
- Before the Storm
- Wee Gordie
- Regi in Asiam
- New Friends
- Sam Squared
- Manx Holiday
- Gossip
- Pre Season
- Team Colours
- Change of mind
- Greed
- I Believe
- Remaining Constant
- Legend
- Needs
- One Small Day
- Phil Brown
- List
- Dying to go to the match
- Spitting Distance
- Manchester Steel
- Jumping the gun
- United Nations – Bolton Branch (Le pie and le pint)
- Bill Reece, where are you now?
- Fallen Angel
- Triple Glazing Tanka
- The Power of Three
- Early Retirement
- Gettin Caught
- Win
- Glittering Prize
- Help Me
- Payrise
- 56 Seconds
- Nobody was watching the cricket anyway
- Echoes
- May
- After the dust
- Cull
- Foreign Parts
- Seven Tears
- Relegation Blues
- Innocents Abroad ?
- Liverpool v Juventus
- Adoptive Poetry
- Edgeley Whisper
- Doctor Football
- Seconds out – Round 1
- Death of a Goalkeeper
- The Bolton Wanderers European Lovesick Blues
- Distinction
- Tanka lot Diouf
- It’s easy from the stands
- Dilemma
- C’mon Ref
- Cup of Blues
- Stevie Gerrard
- Cruz Control
- Thunder in the Hills
- Earning Respect
- Don’t Let Him Near a Microphone
- Team Mate
- I’m Still Here
- The Bolton Wanderers Turned Corner Haiku Shuffle
- B-ang
- A Cold night in January
- Valley of the Damned
- Next Year
- Bolton v Arsenal 15/1/05
- We Beat Arsenal
- Liverpool v Man U 15/1/05
- Football
- FAC3
- Christmas 2004
- Called Off
- Fans
- Double edged sword
- Jigsaw
- Beach Football
- Half Way
- 13th Bolton Volunteer Freefall Parachute Display Team
- Help! – a pre-Christmas plea
- T’Pool in Europe
- The Boxing Day Game
- Donkeys in a Stable
- Superwhites
- United Colours of Football
- Bolton and Villa 13/11/04
- Giggles in Heaven
- Cash Flow
- United City
- Big John
- End
- Burnley v Derby 22/10/04
- Mr Eight
- The Foot Soldiers
- Red²
- A Star is born
- Son of The Mersey
- Can I have my money back?
- Blank Canvas
- What, Me Ref?
- Floodlight
- Stumble?
- The Academy
- Time Added
- Cup Cynic
- Man United v Lyon 15/9/04
- The ‘Pool and Monaco 15/4/04
- Shirt
- Beslan 2
- Telephone Numbers
- Bobby Robson
- Nothing Personal
- Liverpool 29th August 2004
- Pavane
- United Nations
- Swallowed a Wasp
- Office Sweep
- Hillsborough Roses
- First Game
- Charlton 14/8/04
- Reebok Dream
- Ranieri
- VFM
- Return of the King
- Boundary Park – Early 1970’s
- Football Mum
- But I scored dad
- Payment by Results
- Contrition
- Allow me my dream
- Badge
- True Supporter
- Tea Lady
- Just kick the bloody thing
- The Red Rec
- Long Ago
- Lift and Shift
- Tickets
- Twin Strikers
- Maine Road – Late 1950’s
- Charlton – The opening Game
- Pre Season
- The Groundsman
- Spelling Test
- All Change
- Summer Football
- Mr Lofthouse
- Game
- What do they do in SUmmer
- Theatre of Dreams?
- The Beautiful Game
- Goal
- End of Season
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Latest Comments
13th November 2020 at 9:52 pm
I am interested in the tale about The
Boot Room and Shankley
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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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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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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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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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16th September 2020 at 5:51 pm
Sorted! Cheers. SJ
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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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6th September 2020 at 6:22 pm
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
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29th July 2020 at 9:26 pm
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
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29th July 2020 at 6:41 am
Woohoo….sentiment shared Denys.
I thought the huge No 3 on Chelsea’s new shirts strange enough.
Keep on mate.. C
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