Alex Saynor
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 6 months ago
The arboretum’s real;
I told you at the time.
We never get the people through
the checkpoints and the river police;
I told you at the time.The inland lakes are real;
I told you at the time.
A garden by […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 8 months ago
If I can’t find words
or if they are halted by a synaptic lock keeper,
tyrannical yet wise, holding up a hand
to delay the latest craft, whatever its design,
I return to a trusted question,
my favourite f […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 3 months ago
Once we played on a cinder pitch,
a lava flow field with bubble cavities
on a flattened out Mount St. Helens
of ashes and agglomerates.Which flow event formed the fine ash
from fire fountain magma […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 6 months ago
Drink was flowing by the River Ember
under placid skies above Island Barn Reservoir
where The Bell was surrounded by Alsatians
scattered on burnt grass in black and umber,
fresh from the water to kettle their […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years ago
The general synopsis at dusk:
land around the coastal weather station
has been requisitioned for table football.A huge tournament by the College of Agriculture’s
inshore waters gathers all the […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 4 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 5 years, 7 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, 10 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, 12 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 6 years 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 6 years 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 6 years, 5 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 6 years, 5 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, 7 months 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, 10 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 7 years, 1 month 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 7 years, 2 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 7 years, 2 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 7 years, 3 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 7 years, 3 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 […] - Load More
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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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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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