Poems by Mike Bartram
- My Big Comeback!
- Help!!
- The Famous Tale of Eddie Cavanagh
- The Belfast Boy
- The 98th Angel
- Anfield Protest 11/4/24 (No To Ticket Price Increases)
- The Man In Black
- For Sven Goran Ericksson (Anfield 23/3/24)
- The League Cup Final (25/2/24)
- Dreamer
- The King
- Yesterday…What I Saw
- 34 Years On
- What Mattered Most
- The ‘Bigger Picture’
- The Ghosts of Qatar
- The Ugly Game
- We Go Again!
- Minute 7
- Darkness Descending
- Carry On Still ( A Message To Mo)
- Cup Final You’ll Never Walk Alone (For Ukraine)
- Scar
- It Was Beautiful Then
- ‘Sir Roger’
- Angels Only Whisper
- For Paul Carlile
- The Fox
- Melwood
- A Feather To Drift
- The Belfast Boy
- Justice For The 95?
- Snared Rats
- The Football ‘Hard Man’
- ‘Hillsborough Law’
- RIP ‘Bugsy’ Moran
- Where’s The Carras ?
- Russian Roulette (part 1)
- Sometimes…
- Curtain Call
- Rewards
- The History Books
- New Season
- 8 Names
- The Garden
- Rainbow
- Our greatest Victory of All
- The Wait Now Over
- 96 White Doves
- The Toll
- 27 Years To The Day
- End of An Era
- 14 Questions
- ‘Fair Price For All’
- 77 Minutes
- The 3-3 Draw
- Time Will Tell
- Christmas 2015
- A Christmas Prayer
- These Changing Times
- Ourselves Alone
- ‘Stand on Tiptoe’
- 6th Minute Whistle
- My Friends They Say
- The Eternal Flame
- No Barrier
- The Day You Never Came Home
- The Human Zoo
- Those Photographs
- Andy Burnham
- Sarah and Vicki
- ‘Move Back’
- Katy Jones
- The Swell
- The Never Forgotten Few
- The Ringing Bells Of Heaven
- Taunt Us No More
- Hillsborough (26 Years Ago Today)
- That Was The Day
- Pieces
- Darkness Descending
- In My Liverpool Home
- The 25th Christmas
- A Disappearing Trick
- The Winter Call
- In Those Days
- The Corruption Team
- Posties and The Sun
- The Decaying Picture of Justice
- Tarnished Crown
- So Low
- This Limbo State
- Try To Let Go
- Never Came To Me
- Heaven And Heaven
- Goodbye Anne
- A Place (For Anne Williams)
- Today
- Imagine
- Mr Glover
- Load more
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Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.
Publish your football poems here and then discuss them with your team mates and fans. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. What a result!
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joe morris
3rd September 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
3rd September 2024
joe morris
26th August 2024
Crispin Thomas
26th August 2024
joe morris
22nd August 2024
Mike Bartram
20th August 2024
Phil Brennan
20th August 2024
joe morris
17th August 2024
Rowan Waller
17th August 2024
Alex Saynor
12th August 2024
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Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
26th July 2024 at 6:25 pm
Great poem Mike Bartram. Eddie was a legend, affectionately known in Liverpool as, “the first hooligan.” Even the hoolies were well dressed in those days. The amazing thing was he was only 26 when that picture was taken. He’d played for Everton youth team and was well known to the players. He never got arrested. They threw him out and he climbed back in, just in time for Derek Temples winner.
I used the picture of him being tackled to the ground on the front cover of my book, “Once Upon a rhyme in Football.” It’s worth looking on youtube and finding the re-enactment of the Wembley scene. Frank Skinner and Baddiel went around to Eddies home in the 1990’s and acted it out on the green outside. It’s hilarious, especially all the effort they put in to get Eddie sober enough to shoot the scene.
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10th July 2024 at 6:07 pm
Hi Crispin,
I don’t know if you’ve see the picture in social media today…
a picture of a teenage Lionel Messi cradling a baby in Africa as part of a photoshoot…. the family had won a lottery to have their baby pictured with him….
the photographer has just revealed that the baby is actually in fact Lamine Yamal!!!!
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26th May 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi Denys…
Re Man City:
OK it was 20 years ago but Criag Wilson did write this and a few others on them back in 04/05.
BTW I’m more Forest Green Rover since 2014 (and Chelsea) these days . I drum and am a standing season ticket holder .
Best
Crispin
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29th April 2024 at 2:47 pm
Hi Denys,
Yes Richard Williams you’re a brilliant wordsmith, my friend. When I first saw your football poetry I thought it was the superb Guardian sports and music writer. I once had the honour of sitting next to Richard Williams while at the Independent on the sports desk. He writes about music and sport with immense knowledge and authority. I’ve read a couple of Richard’s books recently. Great writer rather like you Richard Williams the Pompey fan. Congratulations on promotion.
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28th April 2024 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Denys. Yes your replay poem was superb.
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26th April 2024 at 4:46 pm
Nice work, Joe. You were quick off the mark with that! Good one from Richard Williams too I see.
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25th April 2024 at 7:33 pm
Hi Denys,
Thanks mate. I’ll do it now.
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25th April 2024 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Joe,
you might like to write a poem yourself on the same subject…
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23rd April 2024 at 4:03 pm
Hi Denys
With you all the way on the abolition of FA Cup replays. What are they doing to the game?
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23rd April 2024 at 3:59 pm
Hi Crispin,
Yes sorry mate. Villa are still in Europe. Mistake rectified.
Cheers
Joe
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