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Alan Green Forever

Gacina Bozidar

Thursday, September 18th, 2025

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Tragedy in Bosnia
And that particular day it was the time of Alan Green of the BBC –
who was later to  suffer  from the BBC’s scandalous decision

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 BBC must know I was listening to  Alan Green
in Bosnia
in difficult times
in 93

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 And this was the 5 Live show with  Alan Green through
Japan’s Digital Radio device
Its’ Cassette player and BASF Cassettes
And the BBC World Service as the only football media for the game
Beyond Sky

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 So having recorded
Alan Green’s voice
I  listened to Tony Cottee scoring
the second goal
In  the 149th Mersey Derby
hundreds of times with Alan Green’s

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 “Cottee past Grobbelaar”
“Cottee past Grobbelaar”
And that was poetry
That was the voice
That was everythng
That was Hope
That was Life
And that was  football  and the game
That was the song
That was the music
on September 1993

Notes

18 September 1993
Everton 2 Liverpool 0
“COTTEE past Grobbelaar”
BBC 5 live with Alan Green their best speaker who was scandalously sacked in 2020.

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/alan-green-forever/