Poems by Mark Thomas
- Under the Atomium (Heysel)
- Hillsborough – Twenty Years On
- Maradona (Lang Syne)
- Misplaced Support
- Return of the King
- Keeper of Dreams
- Shankly Lives Forever
- Off To A Flyer …
- Slavery?
- Torres (Euro 2008)
- Drogba Goes To Moscow
- Green is the Colour
- Standing Together
- Stars Fade (Haiku)
- Walk On By
- Final Whistle
- Four Horsemen
- Farewell to Football
- Torero (Torres)
- The Book Signing
- Early Leavers
- Liverpool
- Rotation, Rotation, Rotation
- Johnny Todd
- Dougan
- Mysterious Ways
- Friendship (Freundschaft)
- Pictures of Madeleine
- Ball of Fire
- Portuguese Man of War
- A Game Too Far
- Final Place
- Written In The Stars
- Nou Camp
- Field of Dreams
- The Atmosphere, Electric …
- Sorry
- The First Time
- To Meet A Legend
- League Cup (Lament)
- A Christmas Tale (2006)
- Badges of Distinction
- Leaving of Liverpool (For Sydney)
- MacKenzie
- Immortality
- Nostradamus Predicts
- Paying The Penalty
- The FAmous Cup
- The Russian Pele
- The Morning After
- Digger
- Taboo Tattoo
- Jared
- Declan O’Doyle
- La Vecchia Signora
- Rome ’77
- Lost The Plot?
- Osgood
- Club v. Country
- Imagine
- Museum Pieces
- Pane in the Grass
- Sh … You Know Who
- We’re Still Waiting Too …
- Ray of Light
- Neville’s Advocate
- The Call Of The Toad
- The Evertonian
- Blessed
- Shanks
- Allez les Rouges
- To Dream, He Did Not Dare
- The Orange And The Green
- Finney
- He Was There …
- Football’s Top Table
- Pride of Donkey Town
- Opa’s Patella
- The Devil Saw Red
- Vladimir
- Dancing On The Ceiling
- Sliding Doors
- Istanbul
- Reflections
- So Long, My Dearest
- Fine Line
- Through the Storm
- Welcome to Hell
- John Thomson
- Just the Man
- Emlyn’s Song
- Green Grass of Home
- Montgomery of Sunderland
- King Kenny
- A Break with Tradition
- Nightmare
- One Cap Wonder
- Being Brazil
- Sixty Six
- Biggest and Best?
- SLD
- Thirteen Ways to Score a Goal
- Wayne
- The Christmas Truce of 1914
- Hillsborough Memorial
- The Empty Seat
- Every Man’s Dream
- If I Was Any Good …
- Friday Night
- Wembley ’74
- Treasure Hunt
- Sir Bob
- The Magnificent Seven
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10th January 2021
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9th January 2021
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9th January 2021
Dave Martin
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6th January 2021
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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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