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POEMS FOR ‘THE FIRST CLUB’

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CHRIS TOWERS TELLS US ABOUT HIS FRESH CHALLENGE WITH SHEFFIELD FC...

Home comforts: Sheffield FC’s current ground at Dronfield

IT WAS an unusually cold and windy July day in a district of Sheffield in the summer of 2023. I was there at the site of the former Sheffield Transport Sports Club at Meadow Head in a suburb of the city to write for Sheffield FC - this is where their new ground will be.
Nevertheless, it was the sort of day you feel cheated upon, aghast at how summer could be so cruel to conjure up a day like this. I was there as club poet, given the role by an adve...

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