Alex Saynor
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
As when the present is slightly off –
Bourneville, Perrier, a Foster’s crate
for the beachfront whiteout game –we’re back again for testing and a psychometric probe
at just the time we had unwound, […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 12 months ago
When your plans are stationary
like a boat tied up at the dock
inexorably, you just can’t get going
without buttering up the ref’by learning about his name, his family,
his route convoluted by […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 3 months ago
Support your skeleton going forward
or embrace its weakness. I can’t do it for you.
It depends on what your long term goals are –
where you see yourself in five years’ time.The important thing is to eat eve […]
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 4 months ago
As Welcome as the sight of allotment smoke in December,
a quiet bonfire in the winter stillness,
are the compressed distances of Sports Report,
fingers hardened in the dusk after hours
of working the ground, […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 5 months ago
One day from under these floodlights
the sun will rise in early spring,
set like the memories you’ve left
in gathering blue over the river.An extra layer will go, light jackets
the order of the day at some […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 5 months ago
Madejski of the methane vents, hero
of South Reading hinterland wastes
made shiny and blue for out-of-town gamesat Junction 11: Madejski of the 1970’s
where the marlin fishing never ends
from South Florida […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 10 months ago
The lines, angles and shapes are wrong. Which
algal bloom will form when the ground has gone –
sunk or deserted – while for now Peru find time
left them, talent still potent, reminiscing
about far post […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 10 months ago
Somewhere beyond the wastes of Nizhny Novgorod
in enveloping white, the farthest reaches of night,
a train rattles on through heights and depths
with passengers lost to perspective journeying
through life to […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years ago
At ‘The Stadiwm Vibrant Vapours’
on that sunlit evening, corporate sponsors
lacked the power of old resonances,
the simple terms the world could afford us:
Richmond Park, rumours of Gorseinon –
leagues […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 2 months ago
In air thin against the coast
where Blue Lias cliffs enclose
swimmers in the shallowsturbines shift with the wind at its approach;
a pylon catches, at the end of the sun’s
closing speech, new […] -
Alex Saynor commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
Thank you, Graham – much appreciated. Your poems are always highlights I look out for.
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 7 months ago
With those air miles, Roy, you could tour the moons of Jupiter.
Ensure the planets are in correct formation,
no-one stepping beyond their sphere.Your Wikipedia page has crashed my computer
somewhere between […] -
Alex Saynor commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 7 months ago
Hi Crispin, Thanks so much for this encouragement (sorry, I’ve only just seen this message.) Really appreciate it. Chuffed for you that FGR went up…I live in Wokingham, near Reading. It would be great to catch […]
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 8 months ago
Wanted man at Hounslow Central
Wanted man outside the Stoop
Wanted man on Chiswick High Road
Wanted man at Botanic KewWanted man outside the Beehive
Wanted man in Osterley
Wherever you might look tonight […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 8 months ago
What if we forgot to start pre-season,
found a training camp for enjoying time
above crickets and distant fireflies?What if we only started the season
to fulfil a contract? Where is the passion
which made […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 10 months ago
The biggest game, the culmination
of a fading season brought pause
to fans ranged across the masonry
of ancient stands in rival colours.Penalties. The terminal feedback
of defeat, the draughtsman’s empty […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 11 months ago
How did we arrive here?
Carrying unfulfilled fixtures
of the missing from our city
to UEFA’s listening committee,
a tentative morning in the warm sun
of Kungstradgarden assembled faces
from the Stretford […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years ago
Under a canopy of unbroken cloud,
across a junction over undropped kerbs
with gates and hedges for goals
and a wickedly uneven, improvised pitch,
you appeared in an urban field of dreams
arrayed on concrete […] -
Alex Saynor commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years ago
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years ago
It’s the FA People’s Cup,
but who can understand
this affliction in the sun?Fair weather to me is a bitter breeze,
high winds and a heavy squall,
ice patches on fourth generation
artificial surfaces, […] - Load More
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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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20th April 2024 at 12:04 pm
Hi Joe
Shouldn’t your title read your poem Farewell Europe England to everyone exccept Aston Villa ?
I know you mention them in your poem , but I do feel sorry for Villa re the national press .
Largely ignored. the hype was was all about Man City & Arsenal with a bit of a nod to the Hammers..but hardly a mention of Villa..
So well done to them
C
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19th March 2024 at 8:00 am
Hi Crispin. Chris Sutton on the radio has gone for a Chelsea v Coventry final. As we know anything can happen in the Cup, and I reckon we can go to the final.
We’re still in with a chance of the play offs too, so lots to go for.
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19th March 2024 at 7:41 am
Hey Kev
Let the masses drool over their odds on City v Unted Final, but who knows how pressure can hit.
Cov and Chels will be rightly labelled as having no chance..but hey …stranger things have happened..
so Chelsea v Coventry…that’s the Final for us!
Best
C
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29th January 2024 at 10:03 pm
Hi Crispin,
How are you doing mate? Yes, you’re probably right but hey football is all about emotion and passion and I just love writing about the game. I try to keep my poetry to a reasonable length but there’s so much to write about the game and its literature just lends itself naturally to poetry. Sometimes I just get completely carried and I do apologise for the length of my poetry but it’s a great thrill to be associated with Football Poets.
Cheers mate
Joe
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10th January 2024 at 7:52 pm
You’re right of course Joe but…..it’s actually more of a big welcome break for everyone who is not into Premier League ..I’m talking fans of EFL National League and below…..
Btw …is this actually your longest poem ever !?
Best
Crispin
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8th January 2024 at 4:45 pm
Thanks!
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8th January 2024 at 10:42 am
There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.
Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads..
Great stuff Graham
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4th January 2024 at 10:13 am
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
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