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joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months ago
Oh, England, England
How your country needs you
To just win, nothing else
Nothing more
Picturesque, rural
Spread out like a picnic
Hamper over the fields
And timeless meadows
Across the matchless
Lake […] -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months ago
We stand at the water’s edge….
shall we succumb
to Salacia’s salty stare
and drown in our sorrow?
Or will tomorrow’s
final
be the time to draw upon
our modern armada – a flotilla of faithful fans
egging […] -
joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months ago
So here we are back
In Berlin
On Sunday evening
Not a sign of a divisive wall
That stopped dialogue
For so many years
Political childishness
Between West and East Germany
Meanwhile in the bodegas
Of […] -
kevin halls published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months ago
England in final
it’s coming home isn’t it
Southgate jubilant ?
Against Netherlands
they did play a lot better
deserved victory.
They have rode their luck
and huffed and puffed in matches
but never gave […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months ago
I recall two similar events involving
16 years old Wayne Rooney in an Everton shirt16 years old Lamine Yamal in the Spanish shirt
You know
The same
Everton v Arsenal 16 years old Rooney
Spain v […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
nights like this are special
times like these are rare
savour ev’ry moment
when you know you’re there
you can call it fortune
who cares what they say
when that moment happens
failure falls awa […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
“Perhaps we are all wrong,
and Southgate
is a substitution genius.”The Facebook banter
after the England game
moves into the realm
of long-ago memory
as we talk of previous
footballing magic […] -
joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
Well, I never
Oh yes, finally again
Against the odds
The impossible dream
Glorious Blighty
Standing on the shoulders
Of 1966 when
Sir Geoff Hurst
Spun a hat-trick
Of World Cup jubilation
But now it’s […] -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
Ollie, Ollie, Ollie
Oi, Oi, Oi!
Ollie
Oi!
Ollie
Oi!
Ollie, Ollie, Ollie…
Ploy, ploy, ploy!Ollie, Ollie, Ollie
Oi, Oi, Oi!
Ollie
Oi!
Ollie
Oi!
Ollie, Ollie, Ollie…
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Clik The Mouse commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
I could not sleep
I could not work
all this pent-up nervousness
just drove me berserk!And so I tried listening to Bob Dylan….
“the nerves, they are a-changing”
yes indeed they are…. escalating […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
Messi’s baptised boy*
sees La Roja through in style
with a mighty strike -
joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
So here we are
On the eve of
The Big Match
Twitching curtains
Shuffling of feet
Behind the scenes
Nervous coughs and sneezes
Audiences sighing
Tomorrow England and Holland
Euro 2024 semi final
Phones […] -
Mike Bartram published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
The Belfast Boy, a player complete.
Had the football world at both feet.
Art like gift, born to dazzle, to win.
Never again to see the likes of him.In United Red, in native Irish Green.
The greatest […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
watching England’s tricky
wherever you stand
given we’re consistently
ever-moaning fansdrowned in mediocrity
drained until we cry
put through ev’ry wringer
then hung out to dryworn out with emo […]
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joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
Honestly, England
How much more can we take?
Patriotic nerves in tatters
Taken to the brink
No finger nails left
Clinging on for dear life
Wobbling and swaying
On the precipice
Don’t look down from
The […] -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
Pre-match…
our hopes were muted
any overt optimism disputed….
and just like the election
there’s too much circumspectionmid-match…
well, our overall play has improved
if only slightly
but dare we say […] -
joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago
So here we stand by
The gates of political history
Keys clanking and jingling
On Thursdays, every five years
Portcullis and drawbridge
Ready to open,
Quite possibly to new Labour
But to misquote Baddiel and […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The day the leaflets came, election sludge
we slip into like a soft play ball park,
they promised us all a new start.The current incumbent wouldn’t smile,
just said ‘It’s strange how all these missi […] -
joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh woe, what torture,
What agony and purgatory
Why do we keep doing it
To ourselves?
Seconds away from the
Departure gate of
Euro2024 and suddenly
Jude did indeed
Take a sad song
And improve it
Most […] - 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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Latest Comments
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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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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