Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 8 months ago
New Lawn new dawn New Year
Christmas the snow and hastily completed tax returns
have all come and gone since the last home match here ~
above the hill the windmill turns
a farmer on a tractor casts a quizzical […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 9 months ago
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ball-boygate goes on
in the streets and on the tweets
one more lesson learned~ ~ ~ ~
who remembers when
grown ups wouldn’t give balls back ?
how the times have changed~ ~ ~ ~
good keepers are […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 9 months ago
watching in some bar
in a land where music’s banned
football raises hearts
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 11 months ago
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so like this mad life
one day sailing on the breeze
next day out the door~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
hard to quite believe
one week stunning all in sight
now they’re stunned themselves~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
which paper […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years ago
Forest where ? they used to cry
that little village team
we may be over-reaching
but still we dare to dreamwe sail uncharted waters now
we scale these dizzy heights
no Channel 5 on Thursday here
but Friday TV […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
with the Hills’brough truth
how pathetic still to see
handbags handshakegate
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
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on such mighty scales
covered up for all these years
what will happen now?
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
when the truth turns blame to shame
when lost lives still scar this game
though they lied not in our name
truth will always out
why so long we’ve always known
in-house codes protect their own
years of no […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
way back in the day
pre-season often meant your side
could be caught like flashing balls in waiting slips
playing cricket friendlies..
long lost times spent on summer days
longing always longing for the […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
on the hill they dream
seven games without defeat
FGR go top
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
We’re watching two blind teams play football
and it’s smashing our concepts in two
ev’ry movement and touch is demanding so much
and it challenges all that we knew..of this gameand I can’t quite begin to […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
Lawn sees dizzy heights
five unbeaten they go third
FGR can dream
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
Ivaovnic scores
Hazard felled for Lampard pen
déja vu or what?
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
what’s new season show me change ?
bring back heroes and our game
greed still endless still beg caution
lessons learned Olympic proportions
summer filled with breaks in rain
football season’s back againback […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
politics aside
give or take a fan banner
Korea take the bronze
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
arrogant and slack
Brazil hopes fly by so fast
like Mexican waves
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
ev’ry single time
they make it look so easy
as Brazil stroll on
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
hinged on a see saw
North America’s goal fest
USA march on
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
after such a start
disappointment for our teams
but what crowds they were
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
taking part is all
but try telling that to our
football team GBs
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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 Comments
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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