Wednesday, 27 September 2017

In Memory of the Real Football Fan

This is for all you football fans out there - especially those in blue and white who are not having the best of weeks. It was written by my dad in the 1970s and is accompanied by his drawings. It's an early start for tomorrow's National Poetry Day with its theme of freedom - which is what I felt after 25 years of being chained to Chesterfield FC and finally realising it wasn't worth it.


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