Football Poets

Hi Daniel,

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

Best, Sharon

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

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

Sorted! Cheers. SJ

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

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

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

Woohoo….sentiment shared Denys.

I thought the huge No 3 on Chelsea’s new shirts strange enough.

Keep on mate.. C

Neil,

thanks for introducing us to a poetic form that we haven’t seen or utilized here!

It sets us an interesting challenge!

Hi Neil -hope you’re happy with the way it’s laid out. (Thanks Christian). I think from memory, this is the first ever hay(na)ku on Football Poets here on this or the old site in 20 years!

Coincidentally, re C.O.A, Michael Horovitz is very much associated with Stroud and Slad in particular (also the home of Laurie Lee.)

Stroud is  where Football Poets as a website began in 2000 and where Michael’s son Adam Horovitz lives. Adam is a fine pastoral and performance poet and a good friend. If you do a search in the search button he does have 4 football poems on here being a Sunderland fan.

Stroud is also close to Forest Green Rovers, who I follow regularly these days, and is also where I am based. I grew up  close to Stamford Bridge in London having followed Chelsea for 50 years

Re WBA… Great community club. I worked there several times in the 2000s running anti-racism football poetry workshops with young local school students, as part of their Football In The Community programme

Best wishes

Crispin