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Gentleman

A footballing Knight
Says goodbye with dignity,
Cheers Bobby, rest now.
The final whistle has blown
The dressing room calls.

For Sir Bobby Robson - one of the game's true gentlemen.

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·	Running the line
·	Top of The Tower
·	Leaving on a jet plane (tanka)
·	Question (haiku)
·	Viva Espagne (haiku)
·	Who'd be a goalie?
·	Half Time Tanka
·	It was 44 years ago - move on
·	Happy Birthday Football Poets
·	Golden Mile (quick haiku)
·	Kev's Tanka
·	Relegation Blues
·	We dared to dream
·	Match Report
·	Surprise Tanka
·	Icon
·	False Dawn
·	We dare to dream
·	Empty seat
·	Hard day at the office
·	Thug
·	Pratfall (quick tanka)
·	Gentleman
·	Turf Moor Tanka
·	Relegation Blues
·	Don't kiss the badge
·	Pennine Heartache
·	Respect (quick tanka)
·	The obscenity of numbers
·	Boxing Day game (Tune - God rest ye )
·	Aliens at The Reebok
·	Warm Glow
·	Tigers
·	On a field of green
·	Tomorrows Millionaires
·	Art Deco
·	In the trenches
·	Yob
·	Coin
·	Thin Ice at the Reebok
·	Lemons at half time
·	Eastern Promise
·	Pavane (Season's end)
·	Rochdale
·	Where the hell are you?
·	Farce in the rain
·	Saviour
·	6258
·	The man in the middle
·	Downfall

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