with love (and nothing to do with football)
with love (and nothing to do with football)
with love
with love – we will still pull through
with love – if this is all we do
with love – when it’s beyond control
with love – from in your heart and soul
with love – when they don’t understand
with love – we will still make our stand
with love – for every living thing
with love – amid this suffering
with love – and not just flippantly
with love – with love from you and me
with love-however far that seems
with love- we must preseve this dream
with love – that we might all be free
with love – whatever comes to be
with love -though we cannot believe
with love – all of that we perceive
with love- when they all turn away
with love-we will still have our say
with love – though we may feel so few
we will go on – if this is all we do
with love -for just another day
we will be strong – and go on anyway
with love
with love
with love
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in ‘light’ of all that has happened ..and far from a football poem…
i don’t mind being accused of keeping it light (hello Clik)we all have to do it it in our own way….i love this world…and with so much darkness-hatred and greed i can only express my feelings in my way…as you must all do in your way…long ago (as a child who never knew his dad)..i met him one day aged 15 for the first time.. to discover he was an intellectual ..highly political and radical beatnik artist and one of the original founder members of the CND movement who had spent his life fighting in that way for change..i guess it resulted in me fighting for freedom in a very different and un-political way….i don’t mind if no-one knows where i’m coming from …because it’s not about me it’s about us-this world and all that we try to do – to make it a better place to live in..football poetry is probably one of the most bizarre ways right now but it’s there…this site isn’t really there for the much more important stuff of life.. but t seeps through and like it or not i still expect a flood of poems about how futile football seems right now…crispin
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joe morris
3rd September 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
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26th August 2024
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20th August 2024
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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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