"Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy! Oi Oi Oi!"

CadenzRime · [Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:58 pm]

Did you put it on footballpoets.org? Think there will be a few others there too.

Mart

Ian Gould · [Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:37 am]

Are you 'chopper' Harris?
Funny how Chelsea, with all their money, will never be as entertaining as that team. Osgood was superb.
Good. Chant on.
Ian
(I am not a Chelsea fan but seventies teams all had their characters)

Ron · [Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:57 am]

Mart,

Aye, lad, I got it accepted into 'Football Poets' yesterday. And, yes, there are some fabulous tributes up there alongside this one. Thanks for asking, and for commenting here.

Ian,

You're not wrong there! Sky TV and the Premier League has utterly ruined the Spirit of 'The Beautiful Game'. Football in the Seventies was more exciting to watch, with bigger crowds attending matches whose tickets were cheap enough for kids to buy one, football strips didn't cost a week's wages, teams in lower leagues weren't in Bankruptcy Court halfway through every season, and the 'stars' of that period were all home grown talent who were 'ordinary citizens' of your town. John Hickton, Captain of Boro in the late Sixties to the end of the Seventies, lived on Thornaby Road just round the corner from me. Every Sunday he'd be out cutting his front lawn like everyone else and as we used to pass we'd shout to him, 'Nice one, John! Great goal!' And he'd wave back and smile and say, 'Thanks, see you at the next one.' And carry on mowing his lawn. He was a MASSIVE HERO to thirty thousand Boro fans at every match and was not mobbed by cameramen, hounded by journalists, or harrassed by his adoring fans. He was shown Respect. Of course he was, he lived amongst us.

Ron · [Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:19 pm]

And don't forget, lads, it was during this Golden Age of footie that we won the World Cup - and we won it without the billions that are pumped into the Premier League of today Wink

Ron · [Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:08 pm]

Hey, this is good...

http://www.footballpoets.org/p.asp?Id=15671 Wink

strayshift · [Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:17 pm]

A great little football-poem Ron - although I am still trying to figure out how someone in the Boro could ever support Chelsea Wink

A great read and a great link thanks
Gordon Smile

Ron · [Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:17 am]

Cheers Gordon,

Aah, man... doesn't matter who you support this week. Ozzy was a king amongst men on and off the field and I was drawn to pay my little tribute Wink

Sammy-Sparkle · [Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:57 pm]

A lovely tribute, Ron.
Peter Osgood is a legend. Anybody over 40 remembers his name. How he didn't become a regular in England's '70 world cup side, I'll never know (Alf didn't like flair players? Well, Best wouldn't have got in that side either then.).
Ozzie would have beaten West Germany on his own. Well, maybe not, but...
He's up there in football heaven now with his old team-mate Peter Houseman, and playing in the "English Heaven 11" with Duncan Edwards and Stanley Matthews. Or in the Heaven All-Stars with Besty, Sir Stan, and Maradona's liver.
Why is/was Ozzy's funeral not live on the Beeb? Why do English people always spurn their heroes? Chelsea must have some real, life-long fans out there somewhere, surely? Confused

Ron · [Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:35 pm]

Sammy,

Didn't get alerted to your post so didn't know it was there 'til just now, hence delay. The British don't spurn their heroes, it's the British gutter press that try to kill them off. Look what the sons of bitches did to Sven before the world cup? What they gonna do now when we win it, eh, give him his job back?

Gordon,

Aye, lad, I am a Boro fan of nearly 40 yrs. Wink

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Sammy-Sparkle · [Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:36 pm]

What the English people don't realise, Ron, is that Sven is the best manager yous've ever had (maybe after Alf...).
And McClaren is the best coach since Peter Taylor at Nottm Forest. Put 'em together, and whaddaya get? Totally unexpected success.
I honestly think England will beat Portugal and Brazil (unless Brazil lose their next match), and meet the Argies or "chippie-bombers"* in the final. Cool

*(C)Jam 2006.

Ron · [Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:34 am]

You ain't wrong, Sammy, on your stats for the pair--best thing that's happened to England since '66, them two.

You're wrong about the English not knowing it, though. We know, the real fans, but how do we influence the suits at the FA? 'F'in Armoles' lookin' for a Saint to lead us to victory. Ironic,eh, that the night before his interview at the FA McLaren went to the Press and said, 'By the way, before you start digging up the dirt on me, I tommed my secretary too, and my wife knows about it, and everything's alright now, so butt out,' and got the job anyway, despite commiting the same 'offence' that Sven was binned for. If I was McLaren, when we win the World Cup I would INSIST that Sven stayed on with me as his coach and I'd look around for another manager's job coz I'd have my pick of any club in the world with a gesture like that. Wink

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BrianRobertNeal · [Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:22 pm] **Watto Ron**

A thank you review.

We gooners used to sing

Blue is the colour,
Rounders is the game,
They're just a bunch of Alkis
They've always been the same.
You'll see them down the King's Road
Looking for ladies of ill fame.
So Blue is the colour
and rounders is the game.

We don't sing that anymore for fear that the KGB might come round.

But Ozzie Osgood
Was good.

I watch a lot of L1+2 and non-league football. Real football, real players, real fans.

I was at the Challenge Trophy final-see below.

Brian

The reviewer would appreciate your comments on: Wem-Ber-Lee

Ron · [Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:08 pm]

Brian.

Click here to see 'Ozzy' on Football Poets with a couple more of my footie ones on the right-hand menu - a site you should consider uploading to. The British Library is, quote: '. . . keeping the web site in the Reading Room in perpetuity, as it is a valuable source of British Heritage.' Wink

You'll see a 'New Submissions' link on that page. If the Editor accepts it you're in, mate. Wink

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"Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy! Oi Oi Oi!" Outline: In tribute to Peter Osgood. "Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy! Oi Oi Oi!" Ozzy Osgood was too good for most. Never clashed with Besty who was at the other end. Ozzy whacked 'em in from thirty yards The Bridge's favourite son. These men live forever in a chanted song. "'Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy! Oi Oi Oi!"