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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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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 […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 3 months ago
when I am watching the World Cup
take me back to Cape Town – before TV
when all we had was a crackly radio
and matches on the BBC World Service
faded in and out on Saturdays by the oceanwhen i am safe here in my […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
She sits beside me as i write
I gaze up at her day and night
and ev’ry time i get a call
I always check upon my wall
my life is planned out selfishly
from Joburg down to Glastonbury
I know exactly where I’ll be […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
there’s a great saying:
‘man reaches for the stars
and ignores the flowers at his feet….’was it Byron….or was it the F.A?
but it’s as apt today as it was back when
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
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oh no – weeks to go
World Cup love is in the air
fasten your keyboards
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 4 months ago
the nation has spoken
the votes are all cast
we hang by a thread
will it tumble or last?there are leaders who tease
with charisma and style
there are those who survive
without passion or guilethere are those […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 5 months ago
spare a thought for lesser realms
where fans are used to straining
they cling like ivy to stone walls
it never needs explaining
consistent in their hanging on
like clifftop vines they lie
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 14 years, 5 months ago
twenty one long years
still we shudder in our hearts
why oh why oh why?
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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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