Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
Hi Trent
have been emailing you (June 2018) but it bounces back… can you email me on crispinctm@gmail.com ta C
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
The mists of time have not erased
The moments of those summer days
The images on our TV
In black and white they transfixed me
the beauty of the game back then
when you and I were only ten
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
thanx Clik
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
on Argentina haiku
big contenders these
Messi leads the white and blue
will it be this time ?on Australia
Cahill’s waltzing squad
return from the land of Oz
while Matildas dreamon Belgium haiku
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 5 months ago
there are loyal collectors of programmes
whose attics and boxes contain
all expertly wrapped and religiously mapped
a record of many a game
but they’re calling for clubs to think over
just what is the p […] -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 5 months ago
Great lines asnd what a great adventure …any pics Emdad …would love to feature this on the main home page here… please email me any images C
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
no-one can explain it
no-one understands
Sometimes it’s impossible
and way out of your hands
off somewhere or hard at work
you had to wash your hair
but ev’ry fan know how it feels
when you can’t be th […] -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
Sublime Sharon..last verse sums it all up…what it is to follow footie at a much lower but still local level after maybe being spoilt for a lifetime…by our bigger and what we thought was our only […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
The last two lines are lines any fan can relate to Ron… :
Then in through the turnstile, enjoying the sound
of the crowd as it builds towards three.I still recall like yesterday, the day i was running a […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
I think we shoud have a whole section on Mohamed Salah’s hair…Emdad!
The things different managers do with different players eh?
It is incredible… looking back to Josés time at Chelsea… watching Salah […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
I guess you have to win 4 or 5 nil in the first leg now…
and Roma definitely inspired Juve who in turn inspired Marseille and CSKA Moxcow..some nearly nearlies..
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
Great words and verse Attila.
And football’s even worse now.
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
love their Ghetto Blater Club Shop…worth a visit just for that Alex!
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
lovely verse… says it all Emdad… go well
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
Great verse Kev me ol’ mate…
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
they called him the crab
passing with that measured touch
farewell Ray Wilkins
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
wonderful lines as ever Sharon…
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
great words Clik
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 7 months ago
Beautiful as always Sharon.
When it was at Preston I just stood there in awe.
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 7 months ago
So true – just like it was in 2000 when this site began Dennis.
is it any wonder then so many of use desert our beloved clubs… with our feet …..to watch the beauty and people’s game of lower and […]
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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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