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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 3 months ago
I’m just happy that Scunthorpe passed our profanity filters!
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 3 months ago
In air thin against the coast
where Blue Lias cliffs enclose
swimmers in the shallowsturbines shift with the wind at its approach;
a pylon catches, at the end of the sun’s
closing speech, new […] -
Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 5 months ago
If? Have you met a football supporter who isn’t? And just to prove it, the next poem is… super superstituous!
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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 5 months ago
[Where has Jodi Craddock gone?]
I googled him (not being a Wolves fan, I hadn’t heard of him) and was surprised by what I found. There can’t be many ex-footballers who become artists. Thanks for alerting me to […]
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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 6 months ago
Well played sir. This should be a cup-winning couplet.
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Alex Saynor commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 7 months ago
Thank you, Graham – much appreciated. Your poems are always highlights I look out for.
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 7 months ago
With those air miles, Roy, you could tour the moons of Jupiter.
Ensure the planets are in correct formation,
no-one stepping beyond their sphere.Your Wikipedia page has crashed my computer
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Alex Saynor commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 8 months ago
Hi Crispin, Thanks so much for this encouragement (sorry, I’ve only just seen this message.) Really appreciate it. Chuffed for you that FGR went up…I live in Wokingham, near Reading. It would be great to catch […]
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 8 months ago
Wanted man at Hounslow Central
Wanted man outside the Stoop
Wanted man on Chiswick High Road
Wanted man at Botanic KewWanted man outside the Beehive
Wanted man in Osterley
Wherever you might look tonight […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 9 months ago
What if we forgot to start pre-season,
found a training camp for enjoying time
above crickets and distant fireflies?What if we only started the season
to fulfil a contract? Where is the passion
which made […] -
Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 11 months ago
The biggest game, the culmination
of a fading season brought pause
to fans ranged across the masonry
of ancient stands in rival colours.Penalties. The terminal feedback
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 years, 11 months ago
How did we arrive here?
Carrying unfulfilled fixtures
of the missing from our city
to UEFA’s listening committee,
a tentative morning in the warm sun
of Kungstradgarden assembled faces
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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years ago
Good luck! Hope to see you on Sunday if I can make it.
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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 1 month ago
Hi Graham – I’m really pleased to see that you’re annotating your poems verse-by-verse. Did you know you can also highlight a bit of text in a verse and comment on that? Hover over this comment to see what I highlighted.
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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 1 month ago
Not forgetting folk hero Robin Friday who started a now commonplace trend by kissing a policeman after scoring against Rochdale in 1975
“The policeman looked so cold and fed up standing there that I […]
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 1 month ago
Under a canopy of unbroken cloud,
across a junction over undropped kerbs
with gates and hedges for goals
and a wickedly uneven, improvised pitch,
you appeared in an urban field of dreams
arrayed on concrete […] -
Alex Saynor commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 1 month ago
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Alex Saynor published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 years, 1 month ago
It’s the FA People’s Cup,
but who can understand
this affliction in the sun?Fair weather to me is a bitter breeze,
high winds and a heavy squall,
ice patches on fourth generation
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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 1 month ago
Great line – made me laugh out loud.
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Christian Wach commented on a poem on Football Poets 7 years, 2 months ago
[you all owe me a beer]
Next time a player fires the ball off to Margate, I’ll buy you a beer where it lands!
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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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joe morris
6th May 2024
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23rd April 2024
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23rd April 2024
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Latest Comments
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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23rd April 2024 at 3:59 pm
Hi Crispin,
Yes sorry mate. Villa are still in Europe. Mistake rectified.
Cheers
Joe
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20th April 2024 at 12:04 pm
Hi Joe
Shouldn’t your title read your poem Farewell Europe England to everyone exccept Aston Villa ?
I know you mention them in your poem , but I do feel sorry for Villa re the national press .
Largely ignored. the hype was was all about Man City & Arsenal with a bit of a nod to the Hammers..but hardly a mention of Villa..
So well done to them
C
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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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