Football Poets

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

Let’s Hope for your sake Denys, that he doesn’t turn out to be from La-la-Land!

A poem on Football Poets that is all about trains is all right in my trainspotting book!

To put it politely!

I remember Tony Dorigo!  Australian full back. Scored the only goal for Chelsea in the Full Members Cup Final v Middlesbrough in 1990 (had to check Google). By pure chance I had a ticket for the press box. […]

‘Roman holiday’ … good line, Joe. As a Chelsea fan, I can’t get my thoughts together on all this yet. I suppose it would be nice to write something before the Big One drops

May I be the first to roar my approval for this poem, Steve. Well said, and well done.

A great poem from Llew Beaton.

Andrew Watson was back in focus in 2021, see this related article….

‘Oh to be back there again’ … ‘the hapless days when we were poor / when he’d grab three but they’d get four”. Sadly I never saw Greaves play at Chelsea, a little before my time.  We have to admit that Spurs […]

Your poem immediately made me think of that article, Crispin. When I moved up to York in 1976 almost the first thing I did was go to watch a game at Bootham Crescent. It was my way of anchoring myself in the […]

This must be the definitive list of football cliches, or as near as dammit … Great stuff!

A football lover’s lament. Beautifully measured  poem on the great divide. Thank you, Crispin.

Thanks for this, Crispin, a souvenir of a memorable night. Reading it brought tears to my eyes. Commiserations to City fans, I thought your name was on the trophy this time.

Intriguing poem, Dave. I don’t think that Geoff Hurst shot would have survived VAR or goalline technology, and then where would the history of this country be, eh? Mind you, the Germans got their revenge in South […]

Thanks for sharing Denys,

I always look forward to your poems.

“Blue is the colour” as my tribe would say!

And happily, we followed your suit!

One nil win at Anfield for us last night.

Though […]

Hi Denys, it’s great to have another Toffee posting on Footy Poets. I haven’t contributed for some time, but if you click my name you’ll find some Everton poems going back several years.

Yes, now we’re all made […]

Kev….. the Rev, of that place that rhymes with Les Fridge!

🙂

What s superb poet you are Sharon! This from a Toffee.

at  least the waistcoat is coming home then?   😉