Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 6 months ago
deep in the game the battle done
a nation groans as if as one
and knows that something is afoot
and sees her dreams all go kaput
and turns in anguished dread and fear
toward this country’s chosen heir
who put his […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 7 months ago
The following article appears on the Worldcupper Web-Site and was
writen by Ario …check out their excellent siteEveryone is looking forward to the World Cup in Japan and Korea but spare a thought for the […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 7 months ago
first day of spring
change in the air
but who can replace the champions? -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 8 months ago
this is my world
defending and going forward
until the whistle blows -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 8 months ago
this game this life
running in two directions
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 8 months ago
football down the alley way football in the street
football for the whole wide world not just the elite
football under lamp-light football on the beach
football with a rolled up sock football with a peach
football […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 8 months ago
the trouble with playing for Mali
and also for Senegal
is that Youssou N’Dour *
and Salif Keita *
don’t spend enough time on the ball
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 8 months ago
(Where Have All The Players Gone?)
now they say if you recall the sixties
you probably weren’t even there
but i can still see it as clear as the day
all those flowers and dreams in your hair –
from the first of t […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 9 months ago
to see the world cup
in a grain of rice
and football heaven in a scarf
hold a dream in Japan
or your Korea
will be brief
and just for a laugh
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 9 months ago
were you chancer or dancer
or real hope enhancer
for those who lose touch with the game
was it wistful or magic
or even pelagic*
ive watched it again and agianwas it planned or impromptu
the place it had gone […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 9 months ago
good peopley..far and wide…
in the roundy ball write and rhymey world..
and series in the thoughts now..
for better time… never was than now.
to menshy-menshy the name Sir Stanley.?
and not Matthews in the […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 9 months ago
Well he’s not the world’s most handsomest guy
and he ain’t that tall when the corners come by
but he’s still got a power like the sun in the sky
it’s like solar
gian-franco zolaand everything he does goes by so […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 9 months ago
was it a trick
or was it a flick
like waving reminders
or shaking a stick
but on colds night like these
in some pub full of fleas
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 9 months ago
there once were some poets from Stroud
who did great stuff but not very loud
it may sound quite absurd
for the punters preferred
that like children or Steps
they were seen but not heard
but my god how they did […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 9 months ago
so what’s so wrong about wanting yeah
to marry a big soccer star
and what’s so wrong about shed-loads of money
and shed- loads of clothes and a car
cause you know what you get when you’re sorted
with you nice […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 22 years, 10 months ago
And as it grew closer to Crisp-less..
the crowds did gather before the Master of the Verse …
in a place just offeth the M5eth where artists, poets
and quite weird soccer writers do liveth in abundenth…and […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 23 years ago
…i’ve re-submitted the poem to
hopefully inspire a few more replies and memories of Wembley ..images..do we
need a national stadium etc; .anything ..and why not…
as we have had some great poems in…on it… […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 23 years ago
in defence of Desailly,Le Saux and Petit etc; staying home )
what kind of game – is this we play
when players have to stand and say –
this world and life mean so much more
than football in an air of war
or in a […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 23 years ago
where now the dream is long over and gone
and your tunnel stands empty while echoes ring on?
when you ask me a place where-in legends were made
i willl show you where none but the greatest have played
from the […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 23 years, 1 month ago
today
i forgot
that autumn
was arriving
and then
under a tree
at waitrose
it suddenly hit mea conker
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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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