Clik the mouse
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Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 8 years, 11 months ago
100 year anniversary of the famous Truce match, 1914
The whistlers, the peepers
the keepers of time and regulation
are rarely saluted.
As far as we know, the Truce match of 1914
had no referee
just trenches and […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 8 years, 11 months ago
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@Xmas
the target
of many hopefuls
and somehow achieved
by the Foxes, who pepper oppo
boxes and send out Mahrez and Kante
to maraud and plunder. Imagine, if Santa
delivers as well as Vardy this year, […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years ago
Football takes a back seat
while ideology and barbarism
intertwine to produce a monster
that feeds on purified souls
and while kalashni coughs and splutters
all pursuit of destinies and goals
are stymied and […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years ago
a blank page; a clean sheet;
one is the mind-blowing achievement
of nothingness (after countless hours);
the other
a well-constructed
clever, harmonious
juxtaposition of
effort and craft –
a blockade […] -
Maureen Yeo published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years ago
There’s not enough space, here in this hotel room
For me, my staff and the boys
We need to talk tactics
But there’s far too much cramped up noiseWe need to rev them up
We need to get them going
My cohorts and my […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years ago
I nestle my neck back
in the ruff tough of mank mocquette;
the train slips and slides on the
autumnal smoothie of leaf-lime on the tracks;
I’m surrounded by paranoid passengers
some prepped, some pooped
almost all […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 1 month ago
The condolences, and offering of
Are well and truly heartfelt
For Howard presided over the sort of Toffees
That would truly make your heart meltThe sincerity seeps from every pore
A minutes ovation rolls around […] -
Apollo Gees published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 1 month ago
Just like butterflying the bird
Our defence was spatchcocked;
As well as our fans giving us the bird
The fourth estate had us match mocked! -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 1 month ago
10 out of 10
Top marks
Betters the proletariat
Tops MarxA perfect ten
Like Nadia’s nadir
Or Torville and Dean
A new frontierSo smiles all around
A thumbs up from Roy
But as for expectations?
Let’s keep it […] -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 1 month ago
Football – blubby well !!!
The tears (of joy) flowed
At Lansdowne Road
Oh ok, it’s now called the Aviva
But it’s only the Jerries, who actually grieve-ah!! -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 1 month ago
Martin O’Neill summed it up well:
“First half awful
Second half better”
When they carried out his instructions
Right to the letter“We were very tense
Might even say nervous”
But fair play to the management […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 2 months ago
It’s a deadly day
Deadline day
It’s a medley day
Of those gone away
Those here to play
And those forced to stay -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 2 months ago
Brighton might ‘shore up’ at the back this weekend
They may even be ‘assured’ of a victory
As they travel away
From the South Coast shoreBut they’ll never forget
Their trip to Shoreham this week
After a certain […] -
Apollo Gees published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 2 months ago
One season assessment:
“the first resigned
the second left through illness
the third was our mistake, the wrong fit
the fourth was just a contract negotiation
that could not be resolved.
When you go through […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 3 months ago
It was the stars of the future
Against the here and now
The Gypsies at Dalymount
Take a bowWith Blue Moon hanging in the air
(But not as well as Jason Byrne)
It’s Vieira’s proteges
Who take their […] -
Apollo Gees published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 3 months ago
Between tangled nodes and warped wire
there lies a rarity, a hidden gem,
albeit one hidden in plain sight,
the unearthing of which, spurs an homageTed Hughes is not normally a venue
in my whimsical web […] -
World Cup Winnie & A Bidewithme published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 4 months ago
We waited and we waited
Until the midnight hour struck
We cheered and we cheered
But then ran out of luckBut wait, what’s this?
A bounceback of sorts
Steph wins a penalty
For the sisters in shortsBut […]
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World Cup Winnie & A Bidewithme published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 4 months ago
Edvard – Munch on that!
And just listen to the screams – of delight
As we put our nightmares behind us
And go dancing through the nightOnwards to the quarters
Our odyssey just beginning
Into unchartered […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 5 months ago
Yesterday thePremiership
Was like the Dead Sea
(With two rocks on the bed
That are QPR & Burnley)
But everyone else floatsToday that sea will change
To the wild Atlantic
Where two journeys
Will toss and […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 years, 6 months ago
Life is the challenge
Football is the game
After Heyssel, Hillsborough, Bradford
We’ll never be the same - Load More
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Latest Comments
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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