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EVERTON
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Gacina Bozidar commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 year, 1 month ago
Today B.B.C post on F.B was titled:Premier League reduced to 18 clubs? I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern.If there would […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 year, 1 month ago
‘Three Teams Worse Than Us’ from our Toffee friend Denys in Italy, also sums up how FGR fans currently feel. Yes, in our case, with two going down to the Conference, it could be entitled ‘Two Teams Worse Than Us’, […]
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Stuart Butler published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 1 month ago
I love Wednesday night’s walking football:
The gathering dusk of late October:
Floodlights lighting the way to goal,
While a moon rises high in the sky,
Illuminating childhood memories
Of yesteryear’s Aut […] -
Graham Salter published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 1 month ago
SPION KOP
“In 1903 we stood on Spion Kop
Clattering our hob-nail boots against the wall”
My grand-dad recollected this for me
When he was eighty, in Nineteen Sixty Three
Remembering a centre-half called Joe […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 2 months ago
the strength and power in his boot
from near or far when he would shoot
the many times I saw him play
at countless games back in the day
the archetypal number nine
who stays a legend for all timethe […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 2 months ago
Someone was watching Charlton in the Sixties
Someone was watching Lampard in the Noughties
Someone was watching Best in the Sixties
Someone was watching Beckham in the Noughties
Someone was watching […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 2 months ago
anyone who’s been here
anyone at all
anyone who loves their club
loves them rise or fall
if you’re superstitious
if you have a dream
you endure the ups and downs
following your team
when you’re on a los […] -
Dennis Swift published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 2 months ago
Wanderers fans divided
Ian Evatt is to blame
Fans are going mental
Because we don’t win every game
But many have a solution
They think they know it all
Then get them to the training ground
with a track s […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 2 months ago
Colin Harvey
His unique perspectiveThe dream and joy of his
San Siro at the beginingI am Pablo Neruda
Colin is Hemingway
I am oversea Evertonian
Euston Station in the morning
Lime Street […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 2 months ago
Rangers in the
Champions LeagueI am reading Archibald Cronin
The autumn of 1992
Somewhere I am shaken
by the shelling of the cityRangers in the Champions League
I am reading Archibald […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 2 months ago
27th October 1990
Luton v EvertonIn the heart of things
My Everton bannerSomewhere in Bosnia
EARLY 1990’SPeople
And my thought about
Luton 1 Everton 127th October 1990
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 3 months ago
We’ll play it safe and get there for sunrise.
Driving to Croydon, any day,
is like being at Exeter Services on a Saturday
in August, single file by West Cornwall Pasty.So when should we leave? When will w […]
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Phil Brennan published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 3 months ago
In the realm of men’s camaraderie, so strong,
We gather, we bond, and we get along.
We drink together, sharing laughs and cheers,
And face the world,
conquering our fears.
In dressing rooms, our sanctuaries […] -
Phil Brennan published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 3 months ago
Our family football scarf holds many memories, from its time within our clan,
Some fantastic tales come with it, as it’s passed from man to man.Great, great granddad Jim told how he got the scarf when he went […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 3 months ago
777
Sevilla
Proactive
ownership
Give us
idea of moving
Everton to La Liga
Then we can compete with
Bilbao and Real Sociedad
Atletico Madrid and Betis
May we build our new stadium
at Costa […] -
Phil Brennan published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 3 months ago
But through it all, we’ve stood tall,
Defying odds, we’ll never fall.
For in our hearts, the fire’s strong,
Though times are tough, we’ll carry on.
The days of blue, they’ll fade away,
Replaced by skies of […] -
Phil Brennan‘s profile was updated 1 year, 3 months ago
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27th November 2024 at 5:55 am
‘You’re Supposed To Be At Home’ is an excellent and moving poem Denys.
You start off thinking it’s just about another oft-sung chant, one we personally heard a lot last season throughout our second relegation in a row here at Forest Green(FGR) ! I always love poems where you think they are saying one thing and then they suddenly pull you deeper to somewhere or something else else.
I’m currently helping in a local school for FGR in a voluntary capacity using football to help young students with reading. At an upcoming session we will tackle racism, just like we did in workshops at football schools and grounds when we first started this site 24 years ago. I’m gonna try and weave your poem into a session.
We’ve added it to the Anti- Racism/Kick It Out section under Crispin’s Corner.
Best C
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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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