Alex Saynor
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
great verse Andrew
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
great lines there Eddie…
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
perhaps it was that mid-day kick off
with a fever all over the land
and aside from Manchester and Glasgow
this was the one for real fanson a day like today you could feel it
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Clik The Mouse commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
You & me both!
I ended up playing Hockey instead, i was just so unsuited to rugby.
And there was footy talent there… We won the schools cup with a scratch team in our last year (we were the last intake, school […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
This poem is up on our Football Poets Twitter page today 8 Sept Mike….see home page here on this site also for link.
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
Great verse Peter….and welcome to Football Poets .
Are you Farmcation too ?
If so why not add those you have put on the FGR poetry page..they’re great…but not all at once – spread them out..over a f […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
great verse ..(and poem)
One of my best mates is a lifelong Wolves fan and used to sell pies at the match many moons ago..
.I was lucky enough to see the mighty Wolves in the early 60s at the B […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
Sentiment shared… happened to me so many times..especially overseas ..where they really don’t really know what they can get until they try!
My moral is always don;t order a drink til you know it’s on and […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
keep your feet upon the ground
the plans of mice and men
are worse than all the clichés here
breathe and count to tentry to curb emotions
nothing’s cast in stone
don’t say that it’s over yet
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 2 months ago
great verse Kev…always believe the Sky blues will be back….you might as well..as fans we have to…believe ….even when we’re losing 4 nil with a minute to go…
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Jane Fuller commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
You really evoke the heightened tension you feel when listening rather than watching the game. I spent years listening to a guy called Derek Lacey on radio cumbria. He was the worst commentator, would forget all […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
apologies Eddie…i received your comment (Stuffy)b y email initially…and i was thinking it was about the site being Stuffy…still getting used to it all…….ouch….
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
We must find that cover…Gonna ask Clik if he still has it..it seems to have disappeared from my files? .It was a brilliant take on the iconic Moore Pele World Cup handshake …but with Shakespeare and who (Was […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
sometimes we’re in lock-down
the pressure is immense
it’s different at this level
but always it’s intensesometimes it’s confusing
the crowd subdued or bored
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
Would love to have that vibe and sound at FGR…
…but wait – we do have cardboard clappers…ouch.
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Jane Fuller published a poem on the site Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
Can you be David Beckham?
Can you be David Beckham if your legs don’t work?
Can you be David Beckham if you have to use a chair?
Can you be David Beckham no matter how much pain your
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
Looking at the two previous poems in the trilogy as suggested in your notes Denys… on a personal level join the queue for clubs with new mangers on the not so merry go round…(FGR & Chelsea)
Our hearts go […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
stuffy in what way feedback widse Eddie?
…it will change we’re working on what we can do on this platform..I’m crap at IT but we will get there…..i want sections and the good old World Cops and Euros […] -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
the only china offer we ever got offered for the new site was a couple of old football mugs from the old car boot…
will let you know when we do the book thing ,,for football poets books on Amazon..
.it wa […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 8 years, 3 months ago
agreed E Power
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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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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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