Dylan Foley
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 8 months ago
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only saw you once
leaping like the cat you were
in that great Wolves side
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 8 months ago
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boots that weighed a ton
studs with nails that cut like knives
before rubber studs
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 8 months ago
remembering Eusebio
on some long distant night
those sixties Euro spectacles
when all was black and whitewhere we would try to recreate
our heroes in the street
the pace the passion and the power
those dancing […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 9 months ago
Is anyone else getting fed up
with those multicultural boots?
they think they’re so cool but we need a new rule
it’s time to get back to our rootsit’s all getting rather anarchic
it’s time the FA took a stand […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 9 months ago
there is a faded image
the one that still remains*
football on Robben Island
those long forgotten gameswhere prisoners followed ev’ry rule
their league and different teams
became a life-line to a sport
they’d […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 10 months ago
haven’t we been here before
when was it we knew for sure?
expectations used to soar
waiting for England to scoreon the screen and in the stand
from the ever-patient fan
to the endless droning band
waiting for […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 10 months ago
the war was barely over with expectation high
the ground was packed to bursting when the Dynamo came by
a deeper motive ruled they say some cold-war ploy or catch
such mystery and secrecy surrounded this great […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 11 months ago
we have no expectations
we’re slipping down the scale
we’ve failed to practise in the past
by practising to fail
and as the ratios decrease
of ‘English’ players here
we still rely on passion
and playing […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 10 years, 11 months ago
scroll up scroll up read all about it
hearsay or Hartsay ? I really doubt it
who’d be a keeper who’d risk their life
the diving the injuries the trouble and the strife?point blank saves the jostling in the […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years ago
There is a pub in Swindon Town
they call the Swiss Chalet
it’s been the home of many a fan
on any big match day
and driving fans like me we just
drink J2O or Cola
and don’t expect a greeting from
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 1 month ago
another season dawns again
debate is everywhere
rumours transfers crazy fees
they’re tearing out their hair
at Liverpool and Tottenham
and even at Man U
the big names face some brand new rules
they don’t know […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 1 month ago
thirty nine years come rain or snow
only one man who could put you in the know
rushing from the ground for the five o’clock show
listenin’ on an old transistor radio
James Alexander Gordonsometimes you found […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 7 months ago
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dated and hated
rarely appreciated
Cole’s one hundred caps
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never ever ‘strapped’
unless in bandage wrapped
forever ‘Cashley’!
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endlessy abused
from the stands on England […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 11 years, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 10 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 11 years, 12 months 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
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years 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 ago
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on such mighty scales
covered up for all these years
what will happen now?
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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.
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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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