Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 4 months ago
am I now the only one
thinking this should not be done?
common sense sometimes there’s none
made behind closed doorsall these lives that we have lost
all theses bridges we have crossed
let’s hope games […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 6 months ago
I was twelve when you first made your debut
on a long ago cold March day
and I stood down the front in the Shed with my mates
as we did ev’ry time in our way
and we watched you as like a magician
you would […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 7 months ago
Wherever we find ourselves
Life we know on hold
Terraces we stood on closed
Seats in stands lie cold
Rituals on match days
Little lost routines
How they seem quite futile now
In these current […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 7 months ago
way back in the fifties new Queen on the throne
all we had was comics in our basement home
tennis balls ice cream vans football in the street
coalman came on Fridays life was so complete
Blow Football […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 7 months ago
there are places where a coat of paint would do right
you need thermals even in the August games
the raffle can quite often be the highlight
but something draws you back each time again
the crowd is often […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 8 months ago
sometimes we judge our players
by the way that they behave
a striker for his scoring
and a keeper for his saves
we even tag some heroes
and one deserves that claim
a man who didn’t just save goals […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 8 months ago
they say that it’s impractical they say we’ve gotta go
they say we really have to move but some of us say no
and yes it needs improvements the parking and the ground
but nothing is impossible that’s what […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 8 months ago
if you were alive
child woman or man
you remember the day still
like yesterday
like Lennon like Kennedy
or the day we landed on the moon
the day we woke to realise
we’d lost a football teamthat moment […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
Mishi was a one-off a real true fan
leaves a huge gap where he always used to stand
held his club like a jewel in his hand
followed them the way few could ever understandpoured out his feelings at the […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
(NB This poem is by ‘Dulwich Poet’ (Mishi Dulwich Hamlet)
Survival
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People say if they cut me
I’d bleed Pink and Blue
I hate to disappoint
But it simply ain’t true.
I’m as ordin […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
unassuming style
crucial in our finest hour
Martin Peters shone -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
Editor Note
Welcome to Football Poets Tony. More please! Keep on. -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
whatever happened to hitching?
and can you remember when kids would hitch home for Christmas
to waiting parents on frosty December mornings?a different world then – hap-less map-less and sat-navless
sussing […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
one Christmas in the trenches
they stood in mud and sand
their loved ones and their football
a distant far off land –
the snow lay thick as thick could be
a bitter chill did spread
behind the sand bags and t […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
there has to be a space there has to be a place
for every single member of the human race
staring at a problem that hasn’t gone away
underneath the suface it’s lingering today
kick it out.. ignore it but […] -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 11 months ago
Thank you Al and Welcome to Football Poets..
Too often in the shadow and wake of Hillsborough, Bradford and Heysel, your powerful and emotive lines remind us of a tragic day when 66 died and many more were […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 11 months ago
great three lines Alex…table football..says it all
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years ago
it’s so hard to imagine now
way way back in time
the birth of little Forest Green
in eighteen eighty nine
the little hilltop village team
whose changing hut was found
behind the Jovial Forester
a good […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years ago
It’s five to three on a Saturday
The usual crowd wander in
There’s a guy in a full kit beside me
But he reckons our chances are thin.He says: “mate are we up for a good one?
‘Cause you never what you […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years, 1 month ago
A weekend like so many
We plan them all life long
We sit or stand as football fans
In silence or in song
And something seems to join us
Our work is left behind
A few hours at the football
With winning on […] - 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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