Long Footballer Poems

Unquotable quotes: Fashion modeling with an eye on footballers – XXVII

Isn’t “haute couture” like “cordon bleu cuisine”? Both equally edible? You still have to pull the shrimp scales apart to get at the meat.

What do...

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>I was thinking of writing a letter to the Felixstowe radio, well the people who run it, not the radio itself.  That would be daft, wouldn’t it?  Writing to a radio.  But...

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Because he knows that despite the fact he’s a decent man
There’s no other way to sort this out 
When even the police too are scared to arrest 
Or think it’s pointless 
In case they too...

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Impossible dreams that give rise to miracles do happen in real life,
How else can one explain  as riotous celebrations burst into life,
There in Leicester City when her football team confirmed their supremacy,
With a final...

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Happy 60th Birthday Dad
It’s time to reflect on the great life you’ve had
A reflection on your times of yore
And the years to follow which will be many more

You were born July the 3rd 1947
Today we...

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Tribute to Maradona                                ...

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Morocco at the 2022 World Cup,:
Morocco is the first African nation to reach the semi finals of FIFA World Cup tournament after 92 years and 49 attempts.
Morocco entered the World Cup as FIFA's 22nd ranked...

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Part 1
1958 (Introduction to employment)

         Often I drift back to the days, where it all began. To feel again
the sharp brisk morning air against my inferior nakedness,
whilst...

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Jack was born in 1981, but at the age of 18,
Was punched in his face so he was out clean, 
He fell backwards to hit his skull on the kerb, 
Which haemorrhaged his brain to...

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He came into the world, the usual way,
Kind of small and unusual they said,
Little did they know how wrong they could be? 

A heart as strong as a lion has he,
With will to match, the...

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Sexism
Growing up we’ve  always thought people were born with a disgusted look on their faces
Because that’s how they have always looked at us
Boxes
 check 1 check other
People don’t know we hid between people like...

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Just because we wish it so, means not that it will pass;
this lesson’s one we all must learn in the Gamecock class. 
Runs my blood, it’s red and black---garnet the deepest hue,
any orange is anathema,...

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Speak loudly
 as you wish, 
When the International community
remains silently ,
Football players speak loudly
 " Stop genocide in DRCongo"
Church  ministers and believers
sing loud in the churches
"Why do you continue to kill 
people who welcomed you? "...

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Argentina's son, a lineage to immigrants
shaped by boyhood aspirations 
diminutive left foot striker
taunted "dwarf" in childhood 
his growth hormone deficiency 
              ...

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On the beach board
I watch life ... and my
life goes by ... I seek ...
what I don't know ...!

Comes the tired athlete,
training for life ...
running lucky that
insists not to arrive ... like this
like me...

Right behind...

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New Year and Sex

So, already many things happened to Pele, the great Brazilian footballer
died but was crowned the king of Brazil for all time.
Closer to home Ronaldo the super footballer feels resentful and thinks
he is...

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To my son Antonio,
As I am writing this, my deepest hopes are, it will reach you.
As my heart is overwhelmed, with both happy and sad memories.
Snoozing around my mind, my dreams and my feelings. This...

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In this modern day world where being average is applauded,
Wannabe’s and the fame hungry incomprehensibly rewarded.
These days it seems the talent less succeed, 
Their lack of skills, and humility, beaten by only their greed.

The young...

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O Lord! Thou art my Coach
I shall never be defeated
 Strengthen me for this game
As I humble call on your name 

Invigorate my heart, mind and body
When I fall, pick me up and energize me
Grant...

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Paul suffered a stroke at the young age of ten, 
He was born 3rd October 1985 in Swansea,
He had been a keen footballer, it was his den, 
So was introduced to table tennis for his...

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IT’S WHAT IT IS …
If every day you sleep in church; you may not know God
You are not necessarily spiritual; but you are pious
If you’ve grade 99.9%, you’re not most educated; but you’ve first class
You...

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IF ever I had a country : XXV - XXVI

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Computer screen, life in a daze
A mundane life to the outside Haze
 Mediocrity and boredom a constant
 Life started so great, but now disenchantment
  
 I look back on my more youthful times
 The...

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Ronaldo, The New Emperor 
It is the news in Portugal, the footballer Ronaldo has won a golden football 
and the country rejoices, after Eusebio died a new emperor is needed, 
a hero people can look...

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And he 
scored....
The whole 
world lit up
To herald a 
hero
What a 
million years 
wait
To get a goal
If just one....

Guns 
blazing,twitter-
trumpets
Shockwaves 
boomeranging 
around the 
hemisphere
Hope rising 
to the 
depleted

How a goal 
unites the 
world
Like a thief...

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