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Poems And Drawings From a 10-Year-Old Soccer Obsessed Boy

October 22nd, 2008 By The Gaffer --> Comments

wales-4-1-england Poems And Drawings From a 10-Year-Old Soccer Obsessed Boy

Going through some old boxes last week, I found a handmade poetry book I created in primary school when I was living in Wales. I thought it’d be interesting to share the poems and my pictures no matter how crude and silly they are to help paint a picture of what a ten-year old soccer obsessed boy was thinking in 1980.

Here are the soccer-related poems and drawings (click the images, when open, to zoom in):

Some of the things that I found interesting about the collection were the names of different companies featured on the advertising boards such as Talbot (cars), Esso (gasoline/petrol), V.G. and Spar (grocery stores), my adoration for my boyhood hero Kevin Keegan, the amount of belief I had in the Welsh national team at that time (thanks to their 4-1 against England), and - even at that age - the level of detail I drew into the football kits of Wales (Adidas) and England (Admiral).


Tags: England · Kevin Keegan · Wales

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