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Author Topic: Benjamin Zephaniah  (Read 11552 times)

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2015, 03:25:19 PM »
he drove a TR7 for a long time which makes him either totally bonkers or totally optimistic, or a bit of both.

Offline Chico Hamilton III

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2015, 03:44:20 PM »
I had a piss next to him in the bogs in the away end at Upton Park about 10 years ago

Offline charleeco7

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2015, 03:49:34 PM »
That is fantastic.

Offline usav

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2015, 03:53:44 PM »
I had a piss next to him in the bogs in the away end at Upton Park about 10 years ago
Did he break out into prose in mid-flow?

Offline darren woolley

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2015, 04:36:50 PM »
Brilliant.

Offline aev

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2015, 04:38:03 PM »
The Villa.

Love that bit.

Offline somec

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2015, 05:02:57 PM »
Love it!

Offline Smirker

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2015, 05:26:17 PM »
Really, really looking forward to this now. Come on Villa.

Offline ciggiesnbeer

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2015, 05:40:15 PM »
Made me really miss home. Beautiful.

Same.

 :'(

Offline Jimbo

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2015, 05:41:11 PM »
He should be Villa's poet laureate.

Offline Villan For Life

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2015, 06:06:18 PM »
That is just beautiful. Sheer poetry.

Offline Percy McCarthy

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2015, 06:23:43 PM »
Beautiful. A great companion to that David Bradley piece. Both class. Benjamin's right.
« Last Edit: March 06, 2015, 06:34:01 PM by Percy McCarthy »

Offline West Derby Villan

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2015, 06:45:52 PM »
Pure class UTV

Offline BC54 VFC

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #28 on: March 06, 2015, 06:50:40 PM »
Brilliant; he and I have a bit in common apart from the Villa - both born in Handsworth in the same year, 1958, me 46 days before him.

Offline supertom

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Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
« Reply #29 on: March 06, 2015, 06:57:39 PM »
Top bloke. That's really got me buzzing (even more than before) for tomorrows game. We'll do those oiks.

 


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