Football Poets

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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!”

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

Thanks for your poem Emdad.

Interesting and forgotten tale. I also watched the Nevin documentary.

best C

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.

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.

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.

Thank you Sharon, same to you.

bestest

Good to see you are still writing your wonderful football poetry John. All the best.

Thank you Clik. Football like Christmas never fails to take us back along the corridors of childhood.