Holocaust Day+ Atmosphere Poems & Site Future
HOLOCAUST DAY POEMS ..
The 4th week of January sees the commemoration of Holocaust Day. Please visit I Respect
and scroll down home page for writing frames about this topic for schools – and for further information on this day. Please also visit Holocaust Day
for poems written in the past, linking football and the Holocaust .It’s not an easy thing to do, but it would be good if anyone can give this as serious try again, this year. This year’s theme for Holocaust Day is….. “Imagine…remember, reflect, react.”
With many thanks, Stuart.
PS Sorry I’ve written so little recently; I’m afraid the muse is still near a railway line and an allotment – but I’m going to watch Swindon and Forest next week, so that might help eventually move the muse down the line. Stu.
In response :
What is it about football? Pogue Mahone
Lest we ever forget Kevin Raymond
And from the archives :
They Played Football at Auschwitz on Sundays Peter Goulding
Holocaust Day Clik the mouse
Holocaust Memorial Day – gassed Stuart Butler
Holocaust Memorial Day1 Stuart Butler
The Banality of Evil Stuart Butler
The Disabled and the Holocaust Stuart Butler
Porrajimos – the Great Devouring Stuart Butler
One in Ten Stuart Butler
Football and the Holocaust Stuart Butler
ABOUT THE FOOTBALL POETS SITE & THE FUTURE ..
Well – we’re still here, un-funded, un-changed and still without our founding webmaster Dave and limited to editorial input only. The up side is we are now 10,000+ poems strong and recognized as the largest free football poetry website in the world! Maybe this year it will happen. The long-overdue overhaul, and changes we long for . So If YOU have the skills to create from scratch, a viable, exciting, innovative and accessible new site – please get in touch. Also if you just have ideas again, let us know .We haven’t asked in a long while. Please E-MAIL US (or in Submit Poem) .Crispin
ATMOSPHERE & THE BIG 4 CUP POEMS 2008
Meantime it’s that old chesnut ATMOPHERE that’s getting you writing . The ‘don’t stand – shut up – sit down’ issue plus the FA Cup or the Big 4 Cup. Is one bovvered? More please..Crispin
WHAT ATMOSPHERE? POEMS 2008
09 Jan Is this the way it’s going? Clik the mouse
07 Jan Standing room only? mark merriman
07 Jan Quiet Please S B Ingle
04 Jan One Sits, One StandsJohn Cox
04 Jan It’s All Gone Quiet in the Kop Pogue Mahone
04 Jan Silence In The Stretford End?
kevin raymond
01 Jan What More Do They Want?
kevin raymond
MORE 2007 ATMOSPHERE POEMS
26 Jan Where’s your famous atmosphere ?
John Oliver
26 Jan Nuffink Like An Atmosphere! kevin raymond
23 Jan Fifteen Euros Denys E. W. Jones
19 Jan Can’t Buy An Atmosphere Crispin Thomas
CUP POEMS 2008
08 Jan Time Travel John Oliver
07 Jan It’s The Roon and Ron Show Tony Lewis-Jones
07 Jan Hats off To Luton Crispin Thomas
06 Jan That Was Then Simon Parr
06 Jan The Big 4 CupCrispin Thomas
06 Jan The Magic of the Cup? Pogue
Mahone
06 Jan What Magic of The Cup? Peter
Goulding
02 Jan Pray Tell Me, Will We Win The Cup?
kevin raymond
2007
10 Oct Everyone Used To Be Up For The Cup Simon Parr
07 Jan Hull City v Boro – FA Cup 07 George Kirby
07 Jan Tamworth v Norwich – FA Cup Third Round S B Ingle
06 Jan This Is The FA Cup Crispin Thomas
06 Jan Still That Old Cup Cliché Magic Crispin Thomas
2006 & Pre-2006 FA Cup Poems
The FAmous Cup Mark Thomas
The Quest Goes On John Oliver
Still Up For The Cup Crispin Thomas
FA Cup 3rd Round 2006 Clik The Mouse
And So The FA Cup Resumes Peter Goulding
The Trains Are On Time On Cup Final Day Stuart Butler
The Glamour Of The Cup Kevin Raymond
Leave The FA Cup Alone Paul Collins
The FA Cup The Hard Way Nikki Young
The Cup RIP Andy Lockett
I Died A Thousand Deaths Christopher T George
Cup Tie SB Ingle
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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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