Your Hillsborough Poems
YOUR HILLSBOROUGH POEMS 2000-2019 – Our selection of poems published on the new site since 2015 and the original/old Football Poets website (2000-2015) now preserved/archived by the British Library. They recall and remember the lives of those 96 souls we lost. The tragic Hillsborough disaster occurred during the semi-final FA Cup tie : Liverpool v Nottingham Forest […]
Your Nostalgia Poems
Hi – Your Nostalgia / Football Memories Poems ; 2000-Present ~ Many of these poems were first published on the original/old Football Poets site established June 2000 and have been archived by British Library. In many cases you can click on poem title to link to poem and click on poet name to link to […]
Football At Christmas Poems
YOUR FOOTBALL AT CHRISTMAS POEMS 2000-2018 2018 05 Dec One Christmas in the Trenches ~ Centenary Crispin Thomas 2015 13 Dec A Christmas Prayer Mike Bartram 16 Mar World Cup at Christmas? S B Ingle 2014 Dec Festive Fixtures E Power 23 Dec Merry Christmas Geof Dawson 19 Dec Team Sheet Alan Mckean 17 Dec The 25th Christmas Mike […]
Your RIP Poems
Your RIP/Remembrance Poems for those lost. Published: 2000-Now ~ 2019: Justin Edinburgh; Stevie Chalmers; Billy McNeill; Tommy Smith; Gordon Banks; Emiliano Sala; Hugh McIlvanney; 2018: Roy Bentley; Alex Young; Tommy Lawrence; Ray Wilkins; WW1 Centenary; 2017: Ronnie Moran; Alex Young; Ugo Ehiog; 2016: Johan Cruyff; ACF Chapocoense Air Crash ; 2015: Howard […]
Your Euros Poems
Your Euro 2016 Poems – 2016 21 Jul Euro 2016 XII: C’est fini! – U Rowe 12 Jul Everything But The Goal ~ Euro 16 Final –Crispin Thomas 12 Jul Post-Euro 2016 – Ianthe Exall 11 Jul Final – Portugal fulfil their Euro destiny – Emdad Rahman 10 Jul Griezmann fires France to Euro 2016 final – Emdad […]
Christmas Truce Poems
Your Christmas Truce 1914 Football Poems~ Selection 2000-2018 2018~ 100th Anniversary of WW1 End 27 Dec It Came Upon A Midnight Clear – Stuart Butler 05 Dec One Christmas in the Trenches ~ Centenary-Crispin Thomas 23 DecThe Truce traduced –Clik The Mouse 2014 ~ 100th Anniversary of WW1 Start 24 Dec Bydand Trent Morris 22 Dec […]
Kick It Out Poems
KICK IT OUT/ANTI RACISM POEMS 2000- Present (Selection) This section is being compiled and is still in selection process. Crispin/Editor 11 Dec (2018) Kick It Out – kevin halls 09 Aug (2017)Towards Inclusive Atmospheres – Crispin Thomas 19 Feb (2015) Still Trying To Kick It Out (2015 Re-Mix) – Crispin Thomas 16 Jun (2014) Kick it out E […]
Your Munich Poems
.Your Munich Poems 2004-2015 On February 6th 1958, 23 people RIP (of the 44 passengers & crew) lost their lives when a plane crashed at Munich Airport, attempting to take off in heavy snow. Among the dead, were members of Manchester United Football Club, returning from a European Cup tie v Red Star Belgrade. New […]
World Cup Haiku ~ Russia 2018
World Cup 2018 haiku (91) A massive thank you for your words and contributions throughout the tournament to: Dachlan Cartwright; Fred Slattern; Kevin Halls; Sharon Wilkie-Jones; Stuart Butler; World Cup Willie from the Editors Crispin, Clik The Mouse and Christian and to eveyone who visits our site.Make your feelings known by clicking the heart/love/like button […]
World Cup Poems ~ Russia 2018
Women’s World Cup France 2019 2019 Jul 02 WWC 2019 Semi-Final: Lyonesses World Cup Winnie Jun 23 Within The Women’s Game ~ WWC 2019 Crispin Thomas World Cup 2018 Poems (122) Contributors (16) : A massive thank you to the following contributors : Alex Saynor; Denys.E.W.Jones; Emdad Rahman; Gacina Bozidar; Geoff Tabrah; Graham Salter; Ianthe Exall; John […]
About This Site
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!
My Account
Latest Poems
John J O’Connor
14th November 2019
Emdad Rahman
10th November 2019
kevin raymond
10th November 2019
Graham Salter
5th November 2019
Emdad Rahman
3rd November 2019
Emdad Rahman
2nd November 2019
Emdad Rahman
2nd November 2019
Emdad Rahman
2nd November 2019
kevin raymond
1st November 2019
Alex Saynor
31st October 2019
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
4th November 2019 at 9:51 am
great three lines Alex…table football..says it all
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16th October 2019 at 10:50 pm
Kev….. the Rev, of that place that rhymes with Les Fridge!
🙂
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23rd September 2019 at 6:39 pm
Lewis Carroll or Andy Carroll?
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19th September 2019 at 4:41 pm
Brilliant Eddie!
with our new website format, we can now all offer suggestions on top of this.
My tuppenceworth:
AE Housman or Peter Houseman?
Spike Milligan or Mike Milligan?
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30th August 2019 at 2:19 pm
I really, really wish I’d thought of that closing line!
Absolute classic!
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2nd August 2019 at 12:01 pm
Wow. That is a fantastic tale John.Thank you. Funny and sad but hysterical. You totally captured the vibe back then.I was too small to see in those huge crowds at the Bridge when i first went to Chelsea on Dec 25 ’57 (Chelsea 7-4 Portsmouth (when Greaves scored 4) but remember …ev’ry week so well …the old Peanut sellers chucking their peanuts to the crowd .And then us chucking our sixpences back .(Tanner a bag) And then stamping on them or chucking back the shells at our mates and the cops too. God Bless Mrs Michella the Crystal Palace peanut seller….and all long gone peasnut sellers.
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28th June 2019 at 3:23 pm
We have one of these shirts Clik and it is beautiful.
Great poem for a boss shirt.
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20th June 2019 at 2:37 pm
Lovely poem Rhys, and That Lone Ship looks a boss book.
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9th May 2019 at 12:59 pm
Great poem Clik – witty and memorable, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.
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9th May 2019 at 12:58 pm
Great poem Sharon, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.
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