Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 2 months ago
Great poem… keep on… I know the feeling!
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 5 months ago
sometimes words are hard to find
to just express in prose or rhyme
the magnitude of this promotion
this relief and this emotion
felt in ev’ry single fan
and longed for since the rise began
who dreamt of […] -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 5 months ago
Great use of wordplay on names Ianthe. Especially liked Lingard…as in a classic Cranberries song’Let It Lingar!’
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 5 months ago
I’m tempting fate to get this down
amid the hopes that swirl around
but has the moment comes around
to get into the league?It’s not about the vegan pies
nor playing under Cotswold skies
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 6 months ago
Great imagery Alex…
Playing in the street….grumpy neighbours..I go back to my old fifties Wharfdale Street , just off the Ifield Road sometimes Alex.
It’s barely a bright tennis ball’s throw from […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 6 months ago
Brilliant Graham , please feel free to do a cartwheel on my behalf.
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 7 months ago
Such a fine verse….about a place I’ve always loved.
it’s so well written and respectful to the Cottagers…. that I didn’t discover til the end that you weren’t a Fulham fan, whjo like PNE also harbour hopes of […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 7 months ago
one might also ask
why was he still on the pitch?
Ibrahimovic
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 7 months ago
Back when William claimed our world’s just a stage
And we are merely players one and all
Was he inspired with quill upon the page
Or horrified and shocked by this football?Did our great Bard endure and w […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 7 months ago
Too right Mike. See our facebook page.
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 8 months ago
Sutton Utd 0 Arsenal 2
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 8 months ago
Nice one Ianthe.
Even though Lincoln , those mischevious Imps, are our (Forrest Green’s) biggest rivals and sitting just above us at the top of the National League, moments like Saturday excite and ignite us […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 8 months ago
Even though :Lincoln are our biggest rivals and top of our National League (Forest Green are third) moments like Saturday excite and ignite us all.Nice one Ianthe.
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 8 months ago
Lovely words Mike
If you key Munich or Busby Babes in the Search magnifying glass button above you will find all the poesm we’ve received since 2000 on the Munich Air crash (and Hillsborough).
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 8 months ago
the man who sets the game alight
like fire from tiny twigs
and with a sigh he dances by
the towering – the bigthe man who loves to improvise
the concentrating eyes
the teasing shift the grace the […] -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 8 months ago
Nice one Dennis….glad you got sorted here!
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 8 months ago
it’s a throw back draw
it’s like days of yore
when the chips are down you couldn’t ask for more
what an amazing Fifth Round drawbig up Lincoln and Sutton* too
up at Forest Green seen what they do
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 9 months ago
we weren’t that great again out there
against Braintree for sure
perhaps they were too bright for us
i thought we’d never score
it feels bizarre..familiar
before a restless crowd
who barely raise the noi […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 9 months ago
So many questions always on the go
rumours and grumbles that never seem to stop
but only one question in the heart of ev’ry fan
how many coats has Mark Cooper* got?negative comments about the […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 9 months ago
Nice one !
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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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