Dylan Foley
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 16 years, 9 months ago
whatever happened to hitching?
and can you remember when kids
would hitch home for Christmas
to waiting parents on frosty December mornings?a different world then
hap-less and map-less
sussing out the best […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 16 years, 10 months ago
ten thousand poems it’s so hard to believe
way back in 2000 how many we’d receive
over twenty thousand submissions down the way
keeping us editing night and dayyou set the subjects you take the time
pouring out […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 16 years, 10 months ago
what’s in a name…pray listen if you will
the friendly little club who play upon the hill
checked Wikipedia look what I found
natural connections reflecting our town
‘deciduous forest’ ‘nature’s vegetation”
‘a […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 16 years, 10 months ago
Bobby’s Moore desire to win
Nobby Stiles’ toothy grin
back then In our neigbourhood
Just a fluke or were we good?
statues stand to mark the spot
for the team that time forgotSpice Boy players big flash […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 16 years, 11 months ago
to say how we failed
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 16 years, 11 months ago
five in a row
euphoria reigns
then bang down to plastic
in one of those gamestoo many foreigners?
let’s not blame race
great expectations
all over the placewho do we turn to
to name or to shame
McLaren to […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
girls go out with pride
so much England style on show
against the holders
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
without Mourinho
the blue revolution can end
before it has hardly begunwithout Mourinho
as with the 1910s 20s 30s 40 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s
normal unpredictable underachieving football at Chelsea
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
three lionesses
knock Argentina for six
bring on the quarters
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
joy throughout the camp
pandas in the dug-out
Kelly’s heroes shine
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
Hope on the touchline
no Emily Heskey here
ev’ry girl wins praise -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
against the holders
with Chinese waves and rain
deadlock and glory -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
so close so near
our girls against Japan
a point in China -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
Things we blokes didn’t know about women..and football
Football is the number one
female participation sport in England.*The Active People survey in 2006
highlighted that 250,000 women
and 1.1 million girls […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
who would have thought it
here in some steaming bar on an island
just like you now in Sardinia
but up there on the screen
over cold drinks and and suntanned Brits
Zola’s greatest goals
flying in from all angles – […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years ago
now if we don’t beat thingummyjig
we might as well give up
we never go the distance
in any flipping cupthis quarter final hoodoo
that hangs above us all
so high above our pleasant land
all players great and […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 1 month ago
keeping it simple
like some injury hit squad
playing with few words
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 1 month ago
just like a goalie
catching and saving something
here upon three lines
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 1 month ago
nineteen syllables
like first or last minute goals
love them or loathe them
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 1 month ago
picture the scene
when your life is so young
when you’re out on the street
when you’re having some fun
when playing connects you
and takes you away
from all of the stuff
that bombards you each day
when no-one […] - 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.
Publish your football poems here and then discuss them with your team mates and fans. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. What a result!
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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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