Dylan Foley
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years 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 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 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 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 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago
taking part is all
but try telling that to our
football team GBs
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
* * *
trademark free kicks end
Roberto Carlos retires
in Brazil they sigh
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
union flags or jacks?
who cares when you win the group
team GB are through
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
in Twenty Twelve we find ourselves enraptured by the style
as seventy odd thousand patrol the Wembley mile
with names like Smith and Houghton and Marta of Brazil
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 1 month ago
no heeby GBs
it’s just like watching Brazil
in red white and blue
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
sometimes you feel the real hope lies
with those who seek a deeper prize
they play with fire in their eyes
and passion that you can’t disguise
let’s leave it to the womenthey stand for whatever we deem
to be the […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 2 months ago
I’m looking out for highlights
and you may disagree
for some of you they’re lowlights
but they’ve still humoured meand some may say the only
real highlights that we’ve seen
were those on TV late at night
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 12 years, 3 months ago
Andrea Pirlo
master chef in a blue shirt
he makes perfect chips~ ~ ~
captain fantastic’s
long balls and inventive play
make us look like kids~ ~ ~
Pirlo with his looks
and his cheeky penalty
bellissimo gol […] - Load More
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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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