Benjamin Zephaniah

[Risso]

Superb.  You're not getting to get such eloquence from Frank Skinner or Adrian Chiles are you?

[spartacuss]

Those bloody onions...

[usav]

No dust here, it just put a bloody big smile on my face.

[Risso]

Those bloody onions...

Eh?

[Toronto Villa]

Win inspired by Benjamin. Looking forward to your next words of inspiration for the semis sir!

[PeterWithesShin]

It was ace seeing him at half time.

[JD]

That is truly brilliant.

[SashasGrandad]

Last year "the library was ours"

This year "the poet is ours"

I hope he writes something for Wemberlee

[CJ]

Thought he was brilliant and before this week I didn't even know he was a Villa fan! I noticed he climbed in to the Lower Holte towards the end of HT - did he stay there and/or was he there before HT?

[Gregorys Boy]

Thought he was great at the game yesterday

[john e]

Love the bit where he leans into the camera and says ' and you know what, we have class'

[Salsa Party Animal]

Any good books or web site for reading his poems, just to see what his work is like ?

[brian green]

And at the final, Abide With Me from a dias on the centre spot should be an instrumental performance by Nigel Kennedy.   It will probably be against Liverpool so they can have a record of Pace and the Jerrymakers singing whatever it is they sing.

[BC54 VFC]

Thought he was brilliant and before this week I didn't even know he was a Villa fan! I noticed he climbed in to the Lower Holte towards the end of HT - did he stay there and/or was he there before HT?

He was there in the first half. I was standing next to him in the gangway, halfway back, immediately before he went on the pitch to be interviewed at half-time.

[Smirker]

Here he is at 53 seconds. Sorry if repost.