Eddie Gibbons
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Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 4 months ago
My city has no boundaries
It travels where its offspring roam
My thoughts now shape what once shaped meOld clipper ships and slavery
Are storylines in dusty tomes
A city has no boundariesTwin talismans of […]
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Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 5 months ago
They always put the wheelchairs
behind the goals. That’s how Frida
and I met. She was sketching me.I was sketching his shirt. I love
the recklessness of his upturned collar.
I will use it for my next s […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 6 months ago
Two coats are best for posts.
The bar defined by stars.
The ball, a small elusive
animal at twilight.Two kids are best for this,
this game without a name;
this thrall, this all-consuming
spell of […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 6 months ago
Cheering at the Kop end with my mates,
He appeared, as in that dream-
I was him and he was me
After we swapped shirts.
Both of us were drained
Following a thrilling game.
On scoring the winner
He stood, arms […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 6 months ago
Walking into the Barber’s Shop I clock
the mirrored features of a colleague
I worked with twenty years ago.He’s busy having his head arranged
by the hairdresser, like a mannequin
being coached for a shop win […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
I read the dismal stats at season’s end.
Our rival’s captain holds the cup in hand.
And now the thought that maybe I should spend
My weekends playing croquet with my friends,Or learning how to crochet with my […]
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Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
Is where the poet went .de
mented, as poets are wont to do.
He spent his last years scribbling
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Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
Will Steve McClaren
be able to tell his Aus
from his elbow, uh? -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
Long Division came first
in the list of fears,
followed in later years
by algebra and calculus.Learning by rote,
we were never taught
that independent thought
could turn a minus to a plus.Or that our real […]
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Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
some go to games on
buses, some take taxis but
poets hitchaiku -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
you don’t need a high
IQ to write a haiku-
just zen and paper -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
The ball has bounced.
Was the ball inside
or outside the line?Roger Hunt’s answer-
The ball was inside,
I turned to celebrate it.Hans Tilkowski’s answer-
The ball was outside,
though I had my back to it. […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
carved in ancient rome,
totti’s eyes, cool as marble,
outstared history -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
did the voice that told
zidane to play again speak
in italian? -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
does defeat by france
represent mortal brazil’s
gotterdammerung? -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
Do not play Angel out wide left or right,
Delaney’s head will drop at close of play.
Fade, fade again with fourth place out of sight.Though Sorensen and Moore will keep it tight,
Because they have no target t […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 8 months ago
What if the ball
was ballooned,
coming off
a Keane penalty
that he skied—
hitting twenty parrots?and if the poor
sick parrots
got hold of it,
if it took them
over the moon,
why
they’d go up highert […]
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Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 9 months ago
I see it this way:
you flared up, got heated, boiled over.
I tried to dampen, douse it, cool it.
Your manager’s anger simply fuelled it.He erupted like Krakatoa.
I was ice floe, hoar frost,
glacier; pure r […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 9 months ago
The stadium rose like a Starship
to meet us, floodlit as a Hollywood filmset.
We felt like extras in a Spielberg epic.Unrehearsed, but eager for action,
we lifted, weightless, up flights of stairs,
drawn to […] -
Eddie Gibbons published a poem on the site Football Poets 17 years, 9 months ago
the portugeezers
and scolari left england
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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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19th March 2024 at 8:00 am
Hi Crispin. Chris Sutton on the radio has gone for a Chelsea v Coventry final. As we know anything can happen in the Cup, and I reckon we can go to the final.
We’re still in with a chance of the play offs too, so lots to go for.
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19th March 2024 at 7:41 am
Hey Kev
Let the masses drool over their odds on City v Unted Final, but who knows how pressure can hit.
Cov and Chels will be rightly labelled as having no chance..but hey …stranger things have happened..
so Chelsea v Coventry…that’s the Final for us!
Best
C
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29th January 2024 at 10:03 pm
Hi Crispin,
How are you doing mate? Yes, you’re probably right but hey football is all about emotion and passion and I just love writing about the game. I try to keep my poetry to a reasonable length but there’s so much to write about the game and its literature just lends itself naturally to poetry. Sometimes I just get completely carried and I do apologise for the length of my poetry but it’s a great thrill to be associated with Football Poets.
Cheers mate
Joe
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10th January 2024 at 7:52 pm
You’re right of course Joe but…..it’s actually more of a big welcome break for everyone who is not into Premier League ..I’m talking fans of EFL National League and below…..
Btw …is this actually your longest poem ever !?
Best
Crispin
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8th January 2024 at 4:45 pm
Thanks!
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8th January 2024 at 10:42 am
There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.
Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads..
Great stuff Graham
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4th January 2024 at 10:13 am
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
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19th November 2023 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Gacina, glad you liked it, and I have just posted a new one about our points deduction…
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7th November 2023 at 6:34 pm
Today B.B.C post on F.B was titled:Premier League reduced to 18 clubs? I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern.If there would be more difficult battle to stay if there were 18 teams.Great poem and somehow true.
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6th November 2023 at 4:43 pm
Ashington FC have launched a £50,000 Crowdfunder appeal to meet the increased costs of winning promotion last season, to pay for urgent stadium improvements, travel costs and equipment
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