Ode to Everton FC

[Dario Terracotta]

Whatever your political views or thoughts on Michael Foot as a politician,this was a truly inspired poem, a couple of truly inspired lines with a nod to our neighbours,the last two lines in particularlol,I read this years ago in Dixie Deans autobiography,but thought it might be worth posting on here for any younger blues who may not of seen it(PS feel free mods to move if not appropriate on here)



Michael Foot, Liverpool Daily Post, 8 March 1935

When at Thy call my weary feet I turn
The gates of paradise are opened wide
At Goodison I know a man can learn
Rapture more rich than Anfield can provide.
In Coulter's skill and Geldard's subtle speed
I see displayed in all its matchless bounty
The power of which the heavens decreed
The fall of Sunderland and Derby County.

The hands of Sagar, Dixie's priceless head
Made smooth the path to Wembley till that day
When Bolton came. Now hopes are fled
And all is sunk in bottomless dismay.

And so I watch with heart and temper cool
God's lesser breed of men at Liverpool.

 

[davek]

Whatever your political views or thoughts on Michael Foot as a politician,this was a truly inspired poem, a couple of truly inspired lines with a nod to our neighbours,the last two lines in particularlol,I read this years ago in Dixie Deans autobiography,but thought it might be worth posting on here for any younger blues who may not of seen it(PS feel free mods to move if not appropriate on here)



Michael Foot, Liverpool Daily Post, 8 March 1935

When at Thy call my weary feet I turn
The gates of paradise are opened wide
At Goodison I know a man can learn
Rapture more rich than Anfield can provide.
In Coulter's skill and Geldard's subtle speed
I see displayed in all its matchless bounty
The power of which the heavens decreed
The fall of Sunderland and Derby County.

The hands of Sagar, Dixie's priceless head
Made smooth the path to Wembley till that day
When Bolton came. Now hopes are fled
And all is sunk in bottomless dismay.

And so I watch with heart and temper cool
God's lesser breed of men at Liverpool.

God's lesser breed of men at Liverpool

Think he was a Portsmouth fan, but that's superb (I'd seen it before but forgot just how powerfully spot on that is). He's basically saying they're untermenschen.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

God's lesser breed of men at Liverpool

Think he was a Portsmouth fan, but that's superb (I'd seen it before but forgot just how powerfully spot on that is). He's basically saying they're untermenschen.

Near enough Dave,it was Plymouth,although he followed the blues when he was an MP up here in the 1930's so the story goes

 

[ToffeeDan]

And so I watch with heart and temper cool
Nick's lesser breed of men at Liverpool.

 

[The Equaliser]

His heart was in the right place, so it's not surprising he kicked with his left Foot.

 

[The Esk]

Near enough Dave,it was Plymouth,

Yes, at his funeral his coffin was covered in red roses and a green and black Plymouth Argyle scarf.

 

[dandydan]

He was officially registered as a Plymouth player as a 90th birthday present. I never knew that.

 

[bigbadjeff]

Nobody has answered the op yet. Who does owe Everton FC ?

 

[bigbadjeff]

Nobody has answered the op yet. Who does owe Everton FC ?

Furthermore, how much ?