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Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.

Publish your football poems here and then discuss them with your team mates and fans. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. What a result!

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Latest Poems

  1. The Funny Ritual Of The Half Time Snack
    Mike Bartram
    8th May 2025
  2. Arsenal leave the European party.
    joe morris
    8th May 2025
  3. I Could Be You
    Mike Bartram
    6th May 2025
  4. Black Country Mince Pies (and Other Fragments of Future Lost Films)
    Alex Saynor
    4th May 2025
  5. Spare a thought
    joe morris
    4th May 2025
  6. Support
    Steven Taylor
    30th April 2025
  7. Play Up Sky Blues
    kevin halls
    30th April 2025
  8. Liverpool, Liverpool
    joe morris
    28th April 2025
  9. Number 2O…For My Dad
    Mike Bartram
    28th April 2025
  10. Crowned at Anfield
    Emdad Rahman
    27th April 2025
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  1. Crispin Thomas

    24th April 2025 at 1:05 pm

    Hey Denys..love this

    “You may be a miner working down a pit.
    You may be a rock star playing sold out gigs.
    You may be a fireman putting out a blaze.
    You may be an inmate chalking off the days. ”

    Not just Dylan but maybe an unintentional nod to and  shades of Ian Dury’s enigmatic  ‘What A Waste’ rhythmic scanning..eg:

    I could be the driver in an articulated lorry
    I could be a poet I wouldn’t need to worry
    I could be a teacher in a classroom full of scholars
    I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs
    What a waste
    What a waste

    Was lucky enough to meet and interview him twice.

    Best wishes from Forest Green to Genoa  C

     

     

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  2. Beth Rogers

    8th March 2025 at 2:34 pm

    Thanks Crispin

    I’ve been to FGR a couple of times in the past – great food! Barnet look like they have the NL sewn up for this season, but I wish you well for promotion next season.

    Regards, Beth

     

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  3. Gacina Bozidar

    11th January 2025 at 8:13 am

    TO ADD THIS TO THIS POEM’S COMMENT:WELCOME BACK DAVID MOYES!!!

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  4. Crispin Thomas

    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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  5. Crispin Thomas

    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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  6. Crispin Thomas

    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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  7. John J O’Connor

    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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  8. Clik The Mouse

    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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  9. Crispin Thomas

    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.

    Manchester City

    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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