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NorthLondonSaint, I really don't mind you telling us your opinion, and I know the little guy isn't going to read your quotes. But he's my brother and your comments were just a bit disrespectful.
 
i took economics for a year but dropped out as i couldn't keep up with the work. I actually got an A in English Lit a level,
But no i do not have a PhD, And im currently working for Barnet Football club as a ticket salesman, With plans on joining the army in the next year.
Does that answer your question?
 
NorthLondonSaint, I really don't mind you telling us your opinion, and I know the little guy isn't going to read your quotes. But he's my brother and your comments were just a bit disrespectful.

You've actually made me feel quite bad now, i was hoping for a more argumentative reply but now i just feel like a scumbag, My sincere apologises
 
10 year old is year 5 right? This is pretty normal for a 10 year old. Obviously you get a few clever little kids and the section of thick ones too. This is plain average though.

A pat on the back and a bit of encouragement. Not really worthwhile for a football forum in my opinion.
 
10 year old is year 5 right? This is pretty normal for a 10 year old. Obviously you get a few clever little kids and the section of thick ones too. This is plain average though.

A pat on the back and a bit of encouragement. Not really worthwhile for a football forum in my opinion.

Yeah, like you say, Year 5. He has time to improve, and while others seem to like it, you may not. All cool with me, poetry is matter of opinion.
 
Good on the lad, maybe he could do one for Nigel Adkins next.

in comparison i managed to get hold of a poem from a young lad in year 5 in a Portsmouth school.

It read

kljskdhre jkjhet lpoiu nswbwhet
yrrsbsdk pojegtbaz qqqwassd,
bncvbnbfhj, oiyyds
poobum.
 
My ten year old brother came home form school today and handed me a poem. I thought for a bit and then decided to read it. When I had finished, I was very impressed. He told the teacher didn't know who Rickie was, so he wrote this for him:

Rickie Lambert,
Scoring,
Wembley.

Goal machine,
Team player,
Genius.

Red and white,
Champions.

And I,
Cheering him on.

Rickie Lambert,
Legend.

I know this may not be post of the day but it's Saints related and, I think, very very good for a 10 year-old. Only tweaked some spelling.

Chapel

Excelent!!

Certainly beats my 5 year old daughter coming home from school yesterday singing 'Play up Pompey'!! Seems that the boys in her class have finally turned her from singing 'Red & White Barmy Army'!! I knew the day would come, was just hoping it wouldn't happen in Year R :-(
 
With apologies to Sir John Betjeman.

Come friendly bombs fall on North End
That place it drives me round the bend
There isn't room to walk straight on
Swarm over death

Come bombs and blow it all quite flat
The cheap shops selling nought but tat
Pound fruit, Pound meat, Pound milk Pound beans
And Pound fresh breath
 
With apologies to Sir John Betjeman.

Come friendly bombs fall on North End
That place it drives me round the bend
There isn't room to walk straight on
Swarm over death

Come bombs and blow it all quite flat
The cheap shops selling nought but tat
Pound fruit, Pound meat, Pound milk Pound beans
And Pound fresh breath

That's really rather good PM, as you haven't just changed the place from Slough to Pompey. I don't think Betjeman would have objected. Next time I'm in St Enodoc, I'll ask. ;)
 
What a load of ****e. No wonder our country is falling behind at the rate it is. I would expect that from a year 1/2 student at most.
 
Me thinks he was talking about year 1 or 2 however stupid his remarks are. lol

Let me put this to the pooh poohers. Say a young player, let's call him Master A Lallana for arguments sake is aged 10. He scores his first goal which is quite average for his age and the manager tells him nice goal but not worth the amount of celebrating you did. A young mast Lallana walks away after the game despondent and from thereon doesn't develop as he could have given some praise and encouragement!!!

Imagine a Saints goal at St Mary's. it goes off a Saint's player's shin, hits his chin and goes in after another deflection off a defender's nose. The crowd goes wild. 'Come on you reds they chant enthusiastically. 'And it's Southampton FC, by far the greatest team the world has ever seen' They bleat out. The team hears the crowd, They are encouraged by their support, the team goes onto win the game and come to applaud the fans.

Now I am not saying the poem is from a Poet Laureatte but it is good. It can be chimed out, it has heart and feeling. It is good.

Reminds me of an argument over Art I had with a Bulgarian. He stated on a forum that to know what true Art is you have to have the specific education to be able to recognise it. I responded that everyone is able to discern what Art is. that is what Art is all about. The viewer (or reader in our case) is the only one who can decide what Art is to them, whereas those who are educated to critique Art often just use poetry to try and suggest their critique is fact and should be taken as such.

Artists such as Emin and Hurst stumble on anything and then use poetry to try and suggest what it means. Its a stuffed sheep, nothing more than that however the poetry you used to try and suggest it was Art was quite good. It's an unmade bed, nothing else but again, nice listening to your poetry telling us the supposed meaning behind it.

I suggested to this Bulgarian that my 6 year old had produced the painting below. I said It is Art, the moment I saw it I recognised it even though it was by a 6 year old. He said it isn't Art, it is 'a child's scribble' and nothing more. I asked him if by his suggestion Van Gogh's paintings were therefore just 'an adult's scribble'. And yes more 'educated' Art crtic poetry flowed back into the debate from the qualified chap. Make your own mind up. Is this Art or is it just a child's scribble? Whichever way you decide it is still Art to me and that is all that matters. It is framed and hung on my hallway with other 'works of Art' from my children. Lots of garbage but some pieces leave me in awe of what a child can produce and how it can make us feel.

So to many of us it is a good poem. To others it isn't however sensitivity should be used when it something a child has done because encouragement drives the Artist forward whether it be a young footballer, an artist, a poet or anything else :)

Make up your minds, you are free to do so as me spitting will not pass through my screen to yours, remember this was done by my 6 year old just after his 6th birthday :D :
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What a load of ****e. No wonder our country is falling behind at the rate it is. I would expect that from a year 1/2 student at most.

Gecko

Why change your name. Joey B smellt as sweet

I has awaited with bated breath your contribution
Cos i knew it would bring no retribution
To your normal ire we would be treated
No e-mail or warning tweeted
Just say it as it is, it's all bad
Life for you must be really sad
A kid writes a poem, it must be torn apart
Cos we might think that you have a heart