Time for another ‘Team Effort’?
You might remember the fun we had adapting Book titles in football pun fashion, prompted at the time by The Big Read series on BBC2?
(see the poem entitled – The Big Read : fun with puns,
under poet : Team Effort)
This time I propose the following : a graffiti wall – read the list below and you’ll get the gist.
Any further suggestions can be marked : ‘Attn Clik’ and sent to : editors@footballpoets.org
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Graffiti Wall
~ Trad ~
Jesus saves : but Dalglish nets the rebound
~ Graffiti Poet ~
“Kopites drool as Cisse Djibrils!”
“Terry’s Pure Goal!”
“Keane’s Mean!” Heinze.
“O’Shea Okay To Play!”
“Murphy’s bitter? not half!”
“Gerrard well ‘ard!”
“The Wayne in Spain causes Moysie loadsa pain!”
“Lamps Cramps Fergie’s Champs!”
“Owen, Goin’…Gone”!
“Fish nets a whopper!”
“Germany can’t but Oliver Kahn!”
“Deco Decks Dacourt!”
“Becks Flicks Flukey!”
“Real Rule” – Raul!
“Davids over the moon, Marc Overmars!”
“Shearer fleeces defences!”
“Riise to Raise game!”
“Babbel’s Bubble Burst!”
“Jesus fed the 5000 but Wayne ate all the pies!”
~ Clik the mouse ~
Lidz luvs Lodz
Manny, one of many Man U
Gazza, gizza guzzle
dissed Distin dosses
Waddle Hoddle huddle
pacey Possee passes (as in Derek Possee, ex-Millwall)
Husky Heskey has key
Dado Prso precise
fit Split flit
Totti N’Gotty grapple
Ling Tong Liddel Eyal Poe (to paraphrase the Goons)
BUT
You might well say :
Is it poetry
Or punditry
Or is it just pandering
To a meandering
mouse / muse
The whole exercise probably prompted from having to hammer home a vocal drill for one of my young offspring :
“This, that, these and those, this is the way the ‘th’ goes”.
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27th November 2024 at 5:55 am
‘You’re Supposed To Be At Home’ is an excellent and moving poem Denys.
You start off thinking it’s just about another oft-sung chant, one we personally heard a lot last season throughout our second relegation in a row here at Forest Green(FGR) ! I always love poems where you think they are saying one thing and then they suddenly pull you deeper to somewhere or something else else.
I’m currently helping in a local school for FGR in a voluntary capacity using football to help young students with reading. At an upcoming session we will tackle racism, just like we did in workshops at football schools and grounds when we first started this site 24 years ago. I’m gonna try and weave your poem into a session.
We’ve added it to the Anti- Racism/Kick It Out section under Crispin’s Corner.
Best C
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26th November 2024 at 1:59 pm
Great poem and great to see you back Wyn.
Don’t leave it so long next time my friend!
More please.
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13th September 2024 at 6:14 pm
Welcome to Football Poets Beth
Great evocative poem Beth….
More please !
Haiku always welcome.
Hope we (FGR) get to play you again soon
Best
Crispin
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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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