" And I'll Be Kit Napier " ( A Centenary Anthology of Supporters' Writing )

[sams dad]

I've just re-read, for the umpteenth time, the above titled book, and was wondering if anybody on here is the author of any of the articles therein?

 

[Lush]

I've just re-read, for the umpteenth time, the above titled book, and was wondering if anybody on here is the author of any of the articles therein?

I think there are two pomes in there what I wrote.

 

[sams dad]

I think there are two pomes in there what I wrote.

Was one of them about Nathan Jones ?

 

[Lush]

Yep

 

[Titanic]

I would love to have a copy of this again... my first copy has gone awol

Are they available anywhere??

 

[attila]

The original print run of 400 sold out in next to no time (and raised a handy sum for the Albion) There could be a reprint, if there was enough demand. The modern day version of 'AIBKN' is the exhibition of supporters' writing in the East Stand and the displays in the North, neither of which were finished at the SSC game - I am assuming they will be by next Saturday. I hope that Corridor, who instigated this, will see it as an ongoing project with more contributions being added in the future.

 

[Storer 68]

Any chance of posting the "Stop he clocks" poem by Lush/Auden.

 

[sams dad]

Any chance of posting the "Stop he clocks" poem by Lush/Auden.

Stop all the clocks at 3pm, cut off the office phone
Silence the North Stand as they sing "You'll never walk alone"
Turn off the PA system and with pipe and drum
Play "Sussex By The Sea ", ere the bulldozers come

Let seagulls circle moaning overhead
Crying to the sky that our beloved ground is dead
Tie blue and white scarves about the terraces that I love
Let PC Beard and Bins wear black cooton gloves

I stood in the North, the South, the East, and the West
During my working week and my Saturday rest
For nigh on twenty years it was my talk, my song
I thought The Goldstone would last for ever, I was wrong

The floodlights are not wanted now, put out every one
Pack up the North Stand and dismantle the Chicken Run
Pour away the pre-match tea and dig up the pitch for fun
You may have destroyed our home, but the Albion live on