Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Mainly football, but sometimes cricket, from time to time athletics, and occasionally other sports.
Football fans from Northern towns hit the capital city Sharp-dressed, pretty sure to take the opportunity to take in a record shop and rifle through vinyl score a winner reach the final Make their way to Covent Garden … Read more
Venue: St James Clubhouse, 11 Blatchington Road Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 2AB Janine begins each half of this event with some appropriately-themed poetry. There will also be speakers and other activities. The theme is women in sport.
Football is Poetry is a 48 page poetic football sticker book , Compiled and edited by Mark Coverdale & Owen Collins , Illustrated by Mark Coverdale , Featuring: Attila the Stockbroker, Matt Abbott, Andrew Blair, Simon Blood, Janine Booth, Rob … Read more
Her cover drive and how she ran are now haram under the rule of the Taliban Can she stay in? For sure she can She can’t be out without a man in ancient, new Afghanistan She’d tackle assumptions and she’d … Read more
If England is an island Is Wales an offshore reef? Is Scotland an Atlantic bay? What’s Ian Botham’s beef? Is Hadrian’s Wall a seaside prom? Is Offa’s Dyke a coast? Does Botham know where the boundaries are? Or has he … Read more
Published in Women’s Fightback 26, Autumn/Winter 2021 Kelly Lindsey, former head coach of the Afghanistan women’s football team – and before that, US international player – spoke to supporters before Lewes FC women’s home friendly against West Ham … Read more
More info about our cricket team here. We’re Lewes Lightning We’re a little bit frightening We’re hitting up a storm We roar like thunder Over and under When we are on form We’re young and older Fierce and bolder Than … Read more
– a villanelle about this. Kids needed somewhere safe to swim so locals raised funds for a pool, got sponsor forms and filled them in Again they shook donation tins to keep aquatics at the school, to keep the children … Read more
Down and Up with the Mighty Posh We only needed a draw. We didn’t even need to score unless we let one in. We didn’t even need to win, Just make sure they didn’t. The point the draw would have … Read more
Published in Solidarity 589, 21 April 2021. Europe’s richest football clubs have announced an exclusive Super League, but have met with near-unanimous opposition. This is a move by Europe’s richest clubs, not its best clubs. One of England’s ‘Big Six’ … Read more
This article was published under a different title in Solidarity 587. On 17 March, Clive Sheldon QC reported on the investigation he chaired into the sexual abuse of boys in football between 1970 and 2005. Five days later, the BBC … Read more
Nicola Adams Is dancing with Madams Instead of with Misters Ten points for the sisters
Referring to this. You’ve won the Women’s Ballon d’Or You dribble, tackle, shoot and score But do you twerk? You strike a hard and well-aimed ball Around a wide defensive wall But do you twerk? Top scorer in the Champions … Read more
Keep politics out of sport Black lives may matter but all that matters here is the score Keep politics out of football because standing up for the national anthem is not political but kneeling for it is Keep politics off … Read more
Roll up, roll up for the Sexism Olympics Medals to be won! It’s not about your skill or fitness But your husband or your son! And the first event is … Giving Men Credit For Women’s Achievements. Step on to … Read more
On the occasion of the 2016 FA Cup final between Manchester United and Crystal Palace: Who to cheer today at Wembley’s meeting? One club sent us down with flukes and cheating The other’s filthy rich and so elitist My position? … Read more
1 This line is the champion 2 This line’s the runner-up 3 This one and the next one made 4 The poetry champions’ cup 5 The fifth line’s rhymes have fallen short 6 The sixth line too missed out 7 … Read more
I was pleased to be invited by Dulwich fan Mishi to write a Posh-supporting poem for the forthcoming Dulwich vs #pufc friendly. So here it is. It’s in 4-4-3 formation. ;-) Up The Posh! I’m pretty sure it was seventy-four … Read more
The Queen’s horse, Estimate, was stripped of its second place in the 2014 Gold Cup after testing positive for morphine … The Queen’s horse is on drugs! Who’d have thought? Bastions of privilege Now cheats at sport Broken Britain reaches … Read more