Poems by Number Ten
- One Thousand Goals
- Liking Garrincha
- Providence
- The Only Things That Stop Him Are His Vices
- Spoiling The Party
- Distance
- Running All Night
- Do They Know The Time?
- Puskas
- Unlikely Replacement
- The Angry Fan
- Slowly, Slowly
- New Paint
- Doomsayers at the Microphone
- Rushes in the Month
- Rensenbrink in Buenos Aires
- World Cup Daze
- The Favourites
- Statues
- Before The Uproar
- Lapse of Lucidity
- Talking To Those That Hear
- In The Town
- At Home in the Goal
- All Wait Patiently
- Everyone Gets Swept Along
- It’s Been A While
- Claude Le Roy
- Standing Near Me
- Do it all over Again
- Bus Journey
- The Last Payday
- One Man Revolutions
- Conceding
- Total Poetry
- The Magic
- Sleeping Giant
- Colourful Game
- Day of Rest
- Still The Greek Flag Flies
- Figo’s Face
- Underdogs
- Life Sentence
- The Ageing Process
- Missing Out
- England Expects
- Passers By
- Peter Shilton Spent My Life In Goal For England
- Filling in the Gaps
- Tournament
- The Unheard Terrace
- Dust Yourself Down
- Sleepless Nights
- White Boots
- Delusion
- Square
- Hopelessness of a Goalkeeper
- Elements
- Shaking
- Screaming in the Faces
- Contempt
- To The End
- Breathing In
- Crash Against The Post
- Lights
- Mexico
- Hold The Back Page
- Where The Coin Lands
- Minefield
- Volatile Landscape
- Their Hearts Say Garrincha
- The Man Who Made Brazil Cry
- Down Goes The Gavel
- Malian Wanderers
- Counting Down To The Hour
- Turbulent Exhaustion
- The Joy And Spontaneity
- Voices From The Playground
- Walk
- The Sun Never Sets
- Different World
- Birthday
- Play In The Snow
- Collapsed
- Legend Status
- Sadistic Tendencies
- Come On In
- Enter A New World
- Alone With The Past
- New Face
- Looking for a Saviour
- Responsibility
- Cup Upset
- Tuesday Night
- Mr Chairman You Have Got Enough
- Yellow Matchday
- Relegation (In 3 Parts)
- Short Memory
- Dereliction
- Soundtrack
- Somewhere Between Love and Hate
- European Play-Maker
- The Man That Waits
- Doubt and Confusion
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Greg Freeman
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8th August 2022 at 6:01 pm
Thank you. It is great.
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2nd August 2022 at 6:58 pm
Check out Bootle Bucks Inclusion in Liverpool, Set up by parents and grandparents to support kids who were being excluded from football at school. https://bootlebucksinclusionfc.co.uk/
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2nd August 2022 at 6:56 pm
Totally agree Crispin. Alex Scott summed it up beautifully to the ones who would not give the support when asked: “You had your chance & you missed the boat!”
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2nd August 2022 at 1:18 pm
Yeah Sharon….
We can be heroes for ever and ever
What d’you say?
And this is for Lily Parr, Dik Kerr Ladies and all who played before.1915-1970 and the 1984 girls too..All those in the past 20 years .All heroes and their parents and guardians too for supporting them when the FA didn’t.
I agree with Chlesea’s Emma Hayes.Take it away from the FA for doing sweet FA. Old boys boardrooms again.
Football is for everyone and should be available for everyone in in all schools everywhere.Girls games. Boys games. Mixed games. Disabled games . Blind games.
C
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25th July 2022 at 8:57 am
Thanks for your poem Emdad.
Interesting and forgotten tale. I also watched the Nevin documentary.
best C
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13th July 2022 at 9:02 am
I remember Tony Dorigo! Australian full back. Scored the only goal for Chelsea in the Full Members Cup Final v Middlesbrough in 1990 (had to check Google). By pure chance I had a ticket for the press box. Because of the status of the game no one else at the paper wanted it.
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9th July 2022 at 5:52 pm
Hi Clik, merci buckets. Great poem, and I also learned what Coterminous was. For all these years I had it down as the name of a Greek midfield general from back in the day.
Yes Chelsea were a bit of a feeder club to Palace for a few years back in the early 70’s. Bobby Tambling and the great Paddy Mulligan were another couple who took the trek sarf of the river. Later on Mickey Droy, Colin Pates and Gary Cahill also joined our ranks.
Nowadays we seem to get all our loanees from Chelsea. They obviously don’t see us as a threat. The best of the lot of them was Conor Gallagher. We’re really going to miss him next season.
All the best , cheers.
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8th July 2022 at 8:34 am
Fabulous John!
You had me going until I copped it!
So glad we got Charlie back from you, he steadied the ship when we had a bunch of youngsters coming through.
We also got Jerry MURFEE from you too!
And my claim to fame? I was good buddies with Vince Hilaire’s cousin.
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3rd July 2022 at 9:36 pm
Thank you Sharon, same to you.
bestest
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1st July 2022 at 8:53 pm
Good to see you are still writing your wonderful football poetry John. All the best.
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