Clik the mouse
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Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
There’s a lot going on, out on the pitch
To-ing and fro-ing
Scenting and marking
A multitude of personal battles
As they hunt the ballLook at this pair –
Chasing down the line
Shoulder to s […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 5 months ago
Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia
small towns, small teams
never featured in my dreams
but I feel for them right now
where the rampant fear, is that their touchlines
will be masked by tank tread-lines
spearheading an […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 6 months ago
We await, with baited breath
The deal of the decade
Nay, the deal of our historyWe await, on pain of death
For a shining knight
To gallop to our rescueWe await, and all while, understand
How beyond […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 6 months ago
10/03/2022. The British Government adds Roman Abramovich to their sanctions list.
“It’s multi-layered, it’s huge and it affects every little area of the club.
It’s cataclysmic for Chelsea. It’s unprece […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 6 months ago
Who, or what
could be better than Messi?!?!well…
try me
bed bound
in the dead of night
under the spotlight
like Walter Mitty
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Clik The Mouse commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
verily, a take from the heart!
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Clik The Mouse commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
Yes indeed we have!
I’m just glad you weren’t among the “halftime and the crowd’s gone home”, but had pencil and paper, or notes on a phone, or just jotted – on a knotted hankie, whatever, that you stayed the […]
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Clik The Mouse commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
Fantastic poem!
From a glass full point of view….
how many pools pundits have hollered “bingo” and toasted those nether regions as they discover that last intoxicating discovery of a matching score-draw!
😉
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Apollo Gees published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
Covid has hit harder
than a Chopper “intervention”
but though some clubs have tip-toed out
not everyone has been subject to suspensionAnd it’s not all as mordant
as a splenetic Morrissey melody
for there […] -
Clik The Mouse commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
Joe, that’s fabulous!
For the first time since the time the song was released, I recently re-watched the video and had a mind to try a poem to match …. having seen this now, I’m glad I didn’t!
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Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
Given the season (to be jolly, or not)
I jingle
more than I jangle
so if you were
to dangle
a chance
in front of me….
I’d be the one
blocking on the line
the last ditch
defender
rather than
the pre […] -
A Bidewithme commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 11 months ago
A great poem from Llew Beaton.
Andrew Watson was back in focus in 2021, see this related article….
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Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years ago
As I carry the ball forward
I survey all ahead of me – options to the left and to the right
All angles of opportunity…
Or, I consider the direct approach
Like a dagger to the heart
A full frontal assault on t […] -
Clik The Mouse published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 1 month ago
And what we live for….
gobsmackingly gorgeous goals
testy tenacious tackles
freakishly flighted frees
cunning curling corners
perniciously potent penalties
wickedly watchable wins
pithily poetic p […] -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
Haters gotta hate
But the best rebuttals, come from the people
The community who care
The populace who placate, who wrap us up in a placenta of refuge
Who swaddle with true warmth
And draw us all […] -
U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
It was meant to be coming home –
it really was
but then we lost our way
the Sat Gav broke down
and the AA rescue van, with Pickford at the wheel
never made it past the pesky roundabout of penaltiesand s […]
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U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
I’ve shredded wheat
I’ve shredded steel
But my shredded nerves
Brought added zeal!A soft penalty?
Well whether Scandinavian or Saracen
They’d say melted ice cream –
Solid by comparison!But it’s comin […]
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U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
Is it coming home?
Expectancy, fear and doubt
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U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
“You crane your neck, and I’ll crane mine”
and so we witnessed three headed goals
nod after nod after nod
all following a calming prod
an early goal, from an up-front Harry
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U Rowe published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
And behold
as the match unfolds….
I didn’t even see the goals
but those second half roles
spoke volumes
and I could see the score
and heard no roar
but the tension was taut
Belgium fraught
but the tec […] - Load More
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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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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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