Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 months, 2 weeks ago
I know they’re cut outs
even so shouldn’t they be
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 months, 4 weeks 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 9 months, 2 weeks 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 10 months, 1 week 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 10 months, 1 week 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 10 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 1 week 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 11 months, 1 week 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 11 months, 3 weeks 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 […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month ago
unassuming style
crucial in our finest hour
Martin Peters shone -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 year, 1 month ago
Editor Note
Welcome to Football Poets Tony. More please! Keep on. -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 2 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 1 year, 2 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 1 year, 3 months 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 1 year, 3 months 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 […] - Load More
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13th November 2020 at 9:52 pm
I am interested in the tale about The
Boot Room and Shankley
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12th November 2020 at 11:21 am
Hi Sharon
Please see my private message re arecent use of one of your poems from Manchester cheers C
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9th October 2020 at 8:17 pm
Hi Daniel,
Good to see you are still writing about the ‘Tic. Hope all is good with you.
Best, Sharon
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4th October 2020 at 9:52 am
So true mate.
You’re certainly not alone in your thinking. I get incensed sometimes.
Aside from the endless and stillwith its -here once labelled Fergie Time moments ,we now have VAR with its far off decisions by supposed ‘neutrals’ .
So …the supposed influenced ‘integrity’ of refs and neutrals favouritism ?
You could tuck it away into some corner and call it yet another football conspiracy theory, (like analyzing and searching to find which teams refs follow and VAR assistant refs (if we knew ) but it still occurs too often for me.
It raises the question is there such a thing a a real neutral. Everyone who watches football definitely supports or has a soft spot for some club however tenuous..
BTW When I was 10 and the Munich Air Crash happened. i (and many at my school in Fulham) was a Chesea fan but took United on as my second lcub for a season through that awfdul time. Now FGR are my life and my team in the next village and i drum (when we get back) on the terrace at 72 with the young kids and scoff vegan pies and get bwind Dale’s green vision for the planet …
Go well Attila and stry safe with your good lady….
Best Crispin
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18th September 2020 at 5:39 pm
nice one sorting a pic to go with..off to a trial run with several hundfred masked fans v Bradgford at FGR tomorrow
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16th September 2020 at 5:51 pm
Sorted! Cheers. SJ
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6th September 2020 at 6:23 pm
Hi again
This message from Ken via the site.
Ken Storey
mail: kensart@talktalk.net
Message: Message for Sharon Jones. I hadn’t been able to contact you as your email seems to have lapsed and would like to know if you still want your Liverpool Christ painting. Let me know if you want it and when you can pick it up from me at 27 Mentmore Road L18 4PU. Hope you are well. Best wishes Ken Storey
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6th September 2020 at 6:22 pm
Hi Sharon-PLEASE CONFIRM RECEIVED
This request from Gavin via the site. Can you get back to him please. If you don’t want to do it let me know, I might have a go.
Name: Gavin Blackwell
Email: gavinleelee@hotmail.co.uk
Message: Hi,
I am looking to make contact with Sharon Jones to see if can or someone could write a poem from my article The Brutality of life of the football Physio?
Best Regards
Gavin Blackwell
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29th July 2020 at 9:26 pm
Hi Crispin,
I’ve only just seen your comment about a photo of the gates. I will dig one out.
I’ve still not been to The New Lawn but I do hope to get there one day.
Martyn
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29th July 2020 at 6:41 am
Woohoo….sentiment shared Denys.
I thought the huge No 3 on Chelsea’s new shirts strange enough.
Keep on mate.. C
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