Football Poets

Good luck! Hope to see you on Sunday if I can make it.

Hi Graham – I’m really pleased to see that you’re annotating your poems verse-by-verse. Did you know you can also highlight a bit of text in a verse and comment on that? Hover over this comment to see what I highlighted.

Not forgetting folk hero Robin Friday who started a now commonplace trend by kissing a policeman after scoring against Rochdale in 1975

“The policeman looked so cold and fed up standing there that I […]

Great line – made me laugh out loud.

[you all owe me a beer]

Next time a player fires the ball off to Margate, I’ll buy you a beer where it lands!

I hope you like the format when you print it out, Ianthe. Let me know if you think it could be improved.

[Ideas of March]

Nice image Crispin, but I believe it’s the Ides of March!

Hi Scott, thanks for pointing this out. I have assigned the poem to your poet profile and changed the title to your original one. I have also notified the site editor and asked him to investigate the other poems t […]

I so want to split this poem into two verses!

True story: Hull City is the only club name in the Football League where one cannot colour in an “enclosed loop” in one of the letters. Yet another reason for it to keep its name!

I’ve tagged this poem as “Nostalgia” but wish I didn’t have to.

What a depressing situation. So far, I’ve avoided exposing my son to the professional game in any shape or form – and now I have the perfect reason for things to stay that way.

What an appropriate haiku Crispin, glad you caught that it would be the 16,000th!

I laughed out loud!

Love your name!