Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 1 month ago
things we’d change if only we could
stuff we’d do for the better and the good
of the game
things we’d alter with the wave of a hand
things that the big boys refuse to understand
or take blameI could write lists […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 1 month ago
I just endure the razzmatazz
that every big game always has
the pre-match need to hype it all
before they’ve even kicked a ball
the intro music that they play
in case the fans don’t cheer today
but when it starts […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 2 months ago
are we in some new moon
are we peaking too soon
can these forwards just never keep still?
from Fulham to Arsenal
from the Bridge to Newcastle
is six-nil the new one-nil?and where are the tedious boring old […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 2 months ago
there was a time when a young man dreamed
and longed for that one recognition
they would drop all for the honour and pride
without fear or the least superstition
but now it’s the norm to be blasé
there are […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 2 months ago
never thought i’d missed it all quite so much
sometimes we struggled just to keep in touch
if I get desp’rate it’s* here within my clutch
but not nowmy Vuvuzela* never made a game
one World Cup féte isn’t quite […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 3 months ago
“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”
Nelson Mandelathe tournament trials they are over
as we try to get back to our lives
but we pray there’s a legacy out there somehow
and the […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 3 months ago
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on this long journey
we all need a coach that drives
men to play with pride
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 3 months ago
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Abject bland clueless defenders
empty futile gormless horrendous
inept jaded knuckled losers
messy narrow overpaid posers
questionable rank shapeless
timid unfit vacant […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
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would it be England
if we weren’t all on the edge?
time to breathe again
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look me in the eye
tell me that you always knew
we’d get through the […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
why do you do it to us
why is it always the same
why do i wake at five a.m
stressing about the game?why do you keep us in limbo
why is it never a breeze
why do the big boys cope with it all
why are we down on […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
at last we can hear
like before above the horns
the sound of a roar
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
I hate the F word
what beats me is what beats us
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
glad to be here hard to miss
never thought I’d feel like this
first half thoughts? non event
they’re just proud to represent
stunning backdrop empty seats
calm reflective in defeat
this is where it could […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
on Algeria haiku
slyly on they creep
desert foxes in the sand
North Africa prayson Argentina haiku
can it be their turn
will they flatter to deceive?
fav’rites often fallon Australia haiku
whipping […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
vuvuzelas blare
Tshabalala la la la
as Bafana score
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
three lines on a page
can’t describe the stress
watching England play
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
without Essien
Arthur Wharton would be proud
Ghana live to dream
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
hold on to your heart
World Cup love is in the air
fasten your keyboards
to say how we’ll do
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic *
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
Africa awaits
what can fire and move us all?
only a football
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
I cannot work I cannot play
I cannot find the words to say
I have no strength to pump my bike
and people ask me what I’m like
it’s Lib-Dem-Cons against Obama
the Great Escape the Barmy Army
my partner says it’s […] - 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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