Your Hillsborough Poems
YOUR HILLSBOROUGH POEMS 2000-2021 – 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 original 96 (now 97) souls we lost. The tragic Hillsborough disaster occurred during the semi-final FA Cup tie : […]
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~ Many of these poems were first published on the original/old Football Poets site established June 2000 and have been archived by British Library.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 […]
Your World Cup Poems
2022 World Cup Qatar 2022 13 Feb Qatar 2022 – Haiku Paul H Tubb 06 Dec ’21 World Cup – a year away now. joe morris 22 dec ’14 Trust FIFA Graham Salter 21 Mar ’14 Qatar’s World Cup haiku Crispin Thomas 2019 Women’s World Cup France 2019 Jul 02 WWC 2019 Semi-Final: Lyonesses World Cup Winnie Jun 23 […]
Christmas Truce Poems
Your Christmas Truce 1914 Football Poems~ Selection 2000-2021 2021 19 Dec The First World War football truce joe morris 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 […]
Football At Christmas Poems
YOUR FOOTBALL AT CHRISTMAS POEMS 2000-Present 2021 16 Dec Football at Christmas always seemed too much. joe morris 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 […]
Your RIP Poems
Your RIP / Remembrance Poems for those that we have lost. Published: 2000-Present ~ 2021 : Ray Kennedy; Ron Flowers; Roger Hunt; Jimmy Greaves; Gerd Muller; Frank Worthington; Peter Lorimer; Ian St. John; Bobby Kellard ; Colin Bell: 2020: Paolo Rossi; Gérard Houllier; Diego Maradona; Ray Clemence; Nobby Stiles; Jack Charlton; Norman Hunter; Peter Bonetti; […]
Your Euros Poems
2021 ~ Your Euro 2020 (2021!) Poems ~ 15 Nov Euro 2020 Steve White 01 Nov Euros 2020 joe morris 01 Nov Football Coming Home, Hopefully joe morris 18 Jul Seven Days Ago kevin halls 17 Jul Rough Musick Stuart Butler 16 Jul Missing in London Town John J O’Connor 16 Jul A New England: Reasons to be Cheerful […]
Kick It Out Poems
KICK IT OUT/ANTI RACISM POEMS 2000- Present (Selection) There are hundreds of poems about racism in footballl on this site. Many of them stretch back to 2000 .You will find poem from students in numerous schools and from football poetry workshops undertaken by the Football Poets over a ten year period. This is purely a […]
Your Munich Poems
.Your Munich Poems 2004-2021 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 […]
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!
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Latest Poems
joe morris
26th May 2022
Ian Martin
25th May 2022
Richard Tindall
24th May 2022
kevin halls
23rd May 2022
Crispin Thomas
22nd May 2022
joe morris
20th May 2022
Gacina Bozidar
20th May 2022
Denys E. W. Jones
20th May 2022
joe morris
16th May 2022
Denys E. W. Jones
15th May 2022
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
27th April 2022 at 10:01 pm
Many thanks for featuring my poem. It’s been one hell of a journey but for all the bad times I’m still here supporting my home town club. Play Up Sky Blues !
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27th March 2022 at 11:36 am
Re: first verse of ‘My dad’ by Joe Morris..
Great words Joe…Moving.
It also reminds me, of all the people that I’ve been with in my life that just didn’t get football at all, full stop. So basically you never mentioned it, unless you enjoyed dumbfounded stares or extensive yawns! .
People who I talked with at length , often on their level, about loads of other stuff we both loved and like you basically everything but football!
This coincdentally included my strange dad : David Thomas : a brillant bohemian beatnik CND and Peace loving artist. He was someone who, being a very young writer and artist myself , with whom I could have had and shared so much stuff in common, but who I only finally met when I was 15.
As a result, and with the over-riding presence at atmosphere of his new partner and new step-son, I only actually got to see him intermittently very briefly for around 20 years, before he passed on..
Your poem also reminds me of John Lennon’s words from the song ‘Julia’:
Half of what i say is meaningless,
but i say it just to reach you..”
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26th March 2022 at 7:04 pm
Haha, thanks Crispin, I hope you can at least see your pie well enough to eat it!
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26th March 2022 at 6:58 pm
Great imagery Joe …but I struggeled to read it in the fog at first…
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24th March 2022 at 9:28 pm
Looks like FGR are going up as champs Crispin ? A season is the proverbial rollercoaster ride, up and down and twists and turns. As Greavsie said ” It’s a funny old game. ” We love it though. ⚽️
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24th March 2022 at 9:12 pm
Tell me about it Kev…!!!!!
Great emotion …just how we’re feeling here in leafy Glos!
best C
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22nd March 2022 at 10:18 am
…Fan is short for fanatic.
Empires fall. Football’s
nowhere near
as important
as life and death…..
Great words Greg..keep on …best… C
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28th February 2022 at 9:10 am
‘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
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18th January 2022 at 9:21 am
“Are you – and this is the most important –
wearing your lucky pants?”
(from ‘Reasons Why You Lost’ by Joe Williams)
ALWAYS JOE!
But when it’s cold like tonight at FGR v Mansfield its the Lucky Long Johns..
Rave on Lucky Pants.
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11th January 2022 at 10:21 pm
It’s weird to see it happening, especially when you consider the price of tickets at PL games. So much action often happens in the final 5 mins!
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