Poems by Sharon Jones
- “See you down the road…”
- How Much is Enough?
- There’s a War in Yemen
- Sign of the Times
- Kelleher Haiku
- Timperley Big Shorts FC
- Anfield Valentine
- The Hive
- Creative Play
- A Simple Game
- Leaving before the end of the Game…
- Reflection
- Shankly: Nature’s Fire
- Football & Rock & Roll
- Just a Game
- Football Matters
- Downstairs at Erics, Upstairs at Probe
- #9 Lennon
- 1963
- Ava White
- Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
- Punk, Football, & The Armadillo Tearooms
- Ray Kennedy
- Gerd Muller – ‘Bomber Der Nation’
- New Signing
- Messi Signs for Burnley Fc
- Love
- Liverpool V Osasuna
- In The Kop
- A New England: Reasons to be Cheerful
- All Things Must Pass
- A New England
- Football.
- Only Football.
- England’s Dreaming
- Jurgen Klinsmann
- Flash Football – 50 words
- Ciao Ancelotti
- Life Is Like Football
- Anas Laghari, Your Ploys Took A Hell Of A Beating.
- Liverpool: Rose-Tinted Specs
- Elvis in Football Boots
- Rose Reilly – International Women’s Day
- Ian St John
- Time Passages
- Hearts
- Burnley or the Bernabéu
- Kingfisher Blue
- Marine Mourinho & The Magic of The Cup
- King of the Kippax
- Le Boss
- Gerard Houllier – Le Boss (haiku)
- Bootroom Bards and Poets o’ the Pitch
- So Here it is Merry Christmas
- Saints & Sinners
- Man and Myth
- The Best of Maradona
- More Than A Footballer – Maradona
- Maradona
- Once Upon A Silent Terrace
- Forever In Blue Jeans (Followin’ The Storks)
- The Flowers of Liverpool (Lest we forget)
- Stop the Clocks
- Maradona 60
- Nobby Stiles
- This Football Life
- The Entry of Shankly into Anfield
- Just Fontaine
- So here it is Sir Bob Paisley
- Mapping the Game
- Kindness of Strangers (For Marcus Rashford)
- Grassroots Not Gravy-Train
- Football to Me
- Places of Poetry (2)
- Happy Birthday Johnny Rhythm
- Places of Poetry
- Signor Ancelotti
- The Glory of the Grassroots Game
- The Physio
- Grace
- Football Seasons
- All Things Must Pass
- We All Live in a Socially Distanced Kop!
- Ofqual Ofsted Offside
- Let Fans In
- “Liverpool will have a lot of fun with Jones” – Klopp
- Back On Our Perch
- Football is….
- Just Like Chrissie
- Tranmere Rovers
- Football Poetry
- Working Class Football
- Ali Turganbekov
- Football Literacy
- This Means More.
- Football Holy Trinity
- Football and Heartbreak
- There’s a kind of hush….
- Football Education (History, Literature & Philosophy)
- Maradona’s Second Goal
- I read the news today…..
- Lily Parr
- Trent Alexander-Arnold
- The Six Pistols
- This Liverpool.
- Miracle of Anfield
- Stevie Chalmers
- Billy McNeill
- April 15th 1989
- Tommy Smith
- Football Lighthouse
- Mirth Mayhem & Magic
- This Football Life
- Youth
- Banks of England
- Romantics Rebels & Redmen
- Hugh McIlvanney Haiku
- Liverpool Pie
- The Formidable Fulcrum of Football.
- Fort William Fc
- Fara Williams
- Football Haiku
- Sir Matt Busby (for National Poetry Day)
- Football Curriculum
- World Lion Day
- ‘Trump Baby’
- The Heart of Football
- Ángel Rangel
- John Lambie (Partick Thistle Fc)
- I will say…..
- Holy Trinity
- GarethSouthgateWould
- Football is All.
- Hillsborough
- Bowie in Berlin
- The Ineffability of Maradona
- world cup haiku cuckoo
- World Cup Winning Captains
- Lev Yashin
- World Cup History
- George Best
- Tony ‘Zico’ Kelly (Bolton Wanderers Fc)
- World Cup
- Football Philosophy
- What is Home?
- Tricky Reds Crazy Football!
- A Game of Two Halves
- The 12th Man
- 12th Man
- William Rodney Kee
- Grassroots Football
- Yoko Ono & The Liverpool Way
- Ray Wilkins
- The Passion and Madness of Football
- Just Fontaine
- The Splash
- Gordon Banks
- National Football Museum
- Fine Dreams of Heaven (A Liverpool Child)
- Bobby Moore
- Denis Law
- Padiham Fc (the craziest 92nd minute in world football)
- Footballers
- Footballers Tackling Homelessness (Ode to Neville ‘Big Nev’ Southall)
- The Gaza Strip
- Lochgilphead Red Star Fc
- Bobby Moore
- Emily Bronte
- John Lennon
- Until the Final Whistle
- Beautiful Game
- A Liverpool Love Poem
- The Football History Boys
- Rose Reilly
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Latest Comments
27th April 2022 at 10:01 pm
Many thanks for featuring my poem. It’s been one hell of a journey but for all the bad times I’m still here supporting my home town club. Play Up Sky Blues !
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27th March 2022 at 11:36 am
Re: first verse of ‘My dad’ by Joe Morris..
Great words Joe…Moving.
It also reminds me, of all the people that I’ve been with in my life that just didn’t get football at all, full stop. So basically you never mentioned it, unless you enjoyed dumbfounded stares or extensive yawns! .
People who I talked with at length , often on their level, about loads of other stuff we both loved and like you basically everything but football!
This coincdentally included my strange dad : David Thomas : a brillant bohemian beatnik CND and Peace loving artist. He was someone who, being a very young writer and artist myself , with whom I could have had and shared so much stuff in common, but who I only finally met when I was 15.
As a result, and with the over-riding presence at atmosphere of his new partner and new step-son, I only actually got to see him intermittently very briefly for around 20 years, before he passed on..
Your poem also reminds me of John Lennon’s words from the song ‘Julia’:
Half of what i say is meaningless,
but i say it just to reach you..”
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26th March 2022 at 7:04 pm
Haha, thanks Crispin, I hope you can at least see your pie well enough to eat it!
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26th March 2022 at 6:58 pm
Great imagery Joe …but I struggeled to read it in the fog at first…
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24th March 2022 at 9:28 pm
Looks like FGR are going up as champs Crispin ? A season is the proverbial rollercoaster ride, up and down and twists and turns. As Greavsie said ” It’s a funny old game. ” We love it though. ⚽️
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24th March 2022 at 9:12 pm
Tell me about it Kev…!!!!!
Great emotion …just how we’re feeling here in leafy Glos!
best C
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22nd March 2022 at 10:18 am
…Fan is short for fanatic.
Empires fall. Football’s
nowhere near
as important
as life and death…..
Great words Greg..keep on …best… C
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28th February 2022 at 9:10 am
‘Roman holiday’ … good line, Joe. As a Chelsea fan, I can’t get my thoughts together on all this yet. I suppose it would be nice to write something before the Big One drops
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18th January 2022 at 9:21 am
“Are you – and this is the most important –
wearing your lucky pants?”
(from ‘Reasons Why You Lost’ by Joe Williams)
ALWAYS JOE!
But when it’s cold like tonight at FGR v Mansfield its the Lucky Long Johns..
Rave on Lucky Pants.
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11th January 2022 at 10:21 pm
It’s weird to see it happening, especially when you consider the price of tickets at PL games. So much action often happens in the final 5 mins!
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