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Christian Wach

  • Profile picture of Alex Saynor

    Through rain drifting across floodlight beams
    and smoke off the hotdog hut
    from a corner by the Thames

    you can see through black metal railings
    through the smog and instant snap of fag ash
    a distant heap […]

  • Profile picture of Crispin Thomas

    whose woods these are I do not know
    but to a hilltop ground they go
    and as we climb in Summer heat
    this well trod path beneath our feet
    will lead us high above the town
    and carry us both up and down […]

  • Profile picture of Mike Bartram

    Each day there is something new to learn.
    When I hear of a brand new football term!
    Is a ‘false number 9’ a number 9 or not?
    That’s something I need to ask Arne Slot!

    ‘Seriously, I just don’t understan […]

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    Mike Bartram published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months ago

    Onto the Wembley pitch Eddie races.
    Wearing his jacket, tie and braces!
    Fleet of foot, he leaves behind the law.
    And why not Eddie, 2-2 now the score!
    This is the famous Eddie Cavanagh tale.
    One cop […]

  • Profile picture of Bozidar Gacina

    Roberto Mancini and Zlatko Dalic
    and so what ? Who would have thought about this :
    Roberto Mancini once visited
    Medjugorje in 2011
    He made pilgrimage in that
    picturesque region of Herzegovina
    He prayed in […]

  • Profile picture of Kevin Halls

    So it’s not coming home
    as England lose to Spain,
    it just wasn’t meant to be
    for Gareth Southgate and Harry Kane.
    So it’s not coming home
    a case of so near but so far away,
    but the Spanish were the better […]

  • Profile picture of Crispin Thomas

    even though we swear we won’t
    something sucks us in
    armchair managers emerge
    when the games begin
    once again we do it all
    ev’ry time it seems
    caught up in the flow and vibe
    caught up in the […]

  • Profile picture of Phil Brennan

    Who cares if it wasn’t a pen, against the Dutch,
    When luck rolls its dice, we’ve not had much,
    Maradona’s handball in ’86,
    A dirty trick that history couldn’t fix,
    In France 98, all our hopes were marred, […]

  • Profile picture of U Rowe

    So near and yet so far….
    and yet here we are
    beaten finalists
    beaten by a better team
    who tramped all over
    our burgeoning dream

    Worthy winners Spain
    brought pain
    to our shores…
    we rowed our oars
    to […]

  • Profile picture of Crispin Thomas

    the flags have all appeared again
    on buildings and on cars
    except the Farmer’s Market
    or posh and trendy bars
    my wall chart hangs resplendent
    a multi-caloured sheet
    a hand-filled record of it all
    of […]

  • Profile picture of U Rowe

    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 […]

  • Profile picture of Kevin Halls

    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 […]

  • Profile picture of Bozidar Gacina

    I recall two similar events involving
    16 years old Wayne Rooney in an Everton shirt

    16 years old Lamine Yamal in the Spanish shirt

    You know
    The same
    Everton v Arsenal 16 years old Rooney
    Spain v […]

  • Profile picture of Crispin Thomas

    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 […]

  • Profile picture of U Rowe

    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…
    JOY! JOY! JOY!

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    Clik The Mouse commented on a poem on Football Poets 5 months, 2 weeks 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 […]

  • Profile picture of U Rowe

    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 […]

  • Profile picture of Crispin Thomas

    Messi’s baptised boy*
    sees La Roja through in style
    with a mighty strike

  • Profile picture of Mike Bartram

    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 […]

  • Profile picture of Crispin Thomas

    watching England’s tricky
    wherever you stand
    given we’re consistently
    ever-moaning fans

    drowned in mediocrity
    drained until we cry
    put through ev’ry wringer
    then hung out to dry

    worn out with emo […]

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