Dylan Foley
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
what now with John Peel gone?
a minute’s silence
at Anfield and beyond
might seem too short
for one who played a different game
with Red in his heart
often while his team were off playing elsewhere
while he’d […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
now there once was this odd football poet
he was sad but he sure didn’t show it
and he just couldn’t stop
at some gig or workshop
and the laughter would roll you’d just know itso you’re up for abuse
if you put […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
well I’m back by the ground that I grew up around
and I’m locked in the feeling within
been too many years-been though pain been through tears
but I’m back at the ol’ Bridge again –
so who but the faith […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
o where does it come from and where does it go
I just don’t have a clue or a notion
and who is it suddenly triggers it off
to rise and to fall like an ocean?o and can you remember the first one you heard
were […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
beyond race or creed
who can truly say – today
it’s just a game?
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
judged by skin alone
so brave those first black stars
how sad
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
arthur wharton
burning black star on white soil
first but forgotten
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
in any land
uniting delighting all
only a ball
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
paul canoville
such flair such promise
why then such hatred?
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
Picked upon taunted
And hated when you came
Underneath the spotlight
Like moths into the flame
Chanted at and spat upon
At first and then again
No appreciation
Or acceptance of your name
Vilified and […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 19 years, 11 months ago
now a footballer’s life can be tempting
the glamour the money the style
and the prospects they seem never ending
but in truth they last barely a whileso try to imagine just how it must be
when they judge by the […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 1 month ago
whose ground this is we surely know
yet so unrecognizable in snow
and I my glee can barely hide
to find these gates so open wide –my little dog must think it strange
to stop with neither sound nor game
he gives […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 1 month ago
the sweetest goal i ever saw
when one side let the other score
was something I’d not glimpsed before
not in this precious life –
but late last night when dark and rain
beat black and loud upon my pane
I watched […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 3 months ago
GLASTIDERATA
go quietly like Wolves fans amid the noise and remember what peace and chilled-ness there will be when you get back to your tent…………..
……if it’s still theredo not steal a traffic cone […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 3 months ago
am i alone in all this fun
is it just me or everyone
from minute one to ninety-one
when after three great games are done
I ask aloud but answers none
nice shades Posh …
but is Beckham playing?
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 3 months ago
ok it’s only a game
but doesn’t football love hurt?
and even if you’ve never been in love
or felt pride
or understood the sweeper system
or maybe just hate the game
who among us is not shaken..
and here in Bath […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 3 months ago
another golden Euro football summer
these next weeks could make or break our love
the sun may be up in the sky a-shining
but I will be where Sky is in the pubi’ve rearranged my life around the matches
i’ve had […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 3 months ago
as flowers reach for sun
and waves for the shore
so we strive
again – again
while flags fly from bars and cars
and children dream
a nation waits silent now
all longing for the dayfamiliar now – this patriotic […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 5 months ago
remember when we used to say
survival of the fittest
these days wealth is the new fitness it seems
but what is wealth
skill talent money or humour?
sometimes – in order to survive
we look to wealth –
that which […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 20 years, 5 months ago
never thought love could feel this way
never thought i’d hear it or ever see the day
sometimes the words aren’t deep enough to say
it’s just football love actuallyall of that stuff you just love to put me […]
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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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