Following You…..Poems On & For Fans Everywhere Wanted?
WANTED! Loyal Fan Poems,, of Team or Game
And how was the season for you?..
Do let us know..in your own space and rhyme of course..?)
.meanwhile a couple of new sloshy fan poems here…
and it’s good to be back on Planet Football’s Earth ..
and still be fluffy!
as ever ..from the heart…
Crispin
On Loyal Fans At Season’s End…
And who can hide this loyalty
though be it team or game
or comouflage this nervousness
pray do not feel ashamed
for you who still feel tingles
each Saturday at three
where’ere you are …right there or far
they call it loyalty
adjusting always – god -forbid
when kicking in at noon
or eight some manic Monday
as though upon the moon
then if you feel for team or game
through seasons dark and light
what thoughts to share before this ends
emotions through the fight
before it changes once again
as seasons have to do
and all becomes the past – but lasts
within the heart of you..
Crispin Thomas April 03
Following You…
I still can feel the passion
these muscles ache and tense
and who would dream
this love would last
long after innocence
to spend a childhood chasing
to travel everywhere
from East and West
and North to South
to stand beside you there
in wind and rain and hail and snow
to sit with head in heart
and all the time the longing grows
to always be a part
and if a thousand miles away
still tied like poets to rhyme
transported on the airwaves
a moment shared in time
a part of this great journey
a part of this great game
to follow you – what’ere you do
forever – now – the same
this love – this love
this football love
unfaltered – ever true
such worlds apart – but one in heart
to follow through and through
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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.
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joe morris
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16th October 2024
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Latest Comments
13th September 2024 at 6:14 pm
Welcome to Football Poets Beth
Great evocative poem Beth….
More please !
Haiku always welcome.
Hope we (FGR) get to play you again soon
Best
Crispin
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26th July 2024 at 6:25 pm
Great poem Mike Bartram. Eddie was a legend, affectionately known in Liverpool as, “the first hooligan.” Even the hoolies were well dressed in those days. The amazing thing was he was only 26 when that picture was taken. He’d played for Everton youth team and was well known to the players. He never got arrested. They threw him out and he climbed back in, just in time for Derek Temples winner.
I used the picture of him being tackled to the ground on the front cover of my book, “Once Upon a rhyme in Football.” It’s worth looking on youtube and finding the re-enactment of the Wembley scene. Frank Skinner and Baddiel went around to Eddies home in the 1990’s and acted it out on the green outside. It’s hilarious, especially all the effort they put in to get Eddie sober enough to shoot the scene.
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10th July 2024 at 6:07 pm
Hi Crispin,
I don’t know if you’ve see the picture in social media today…
a picture of a teenage Lionel Messi cradling a baby in Africa as part of a photoshoot…. the family had won a lottery to have their baby pictured with him….
the photographer has just revealed that the baby is actually in fact Lamine Yamal!!!!
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26th May 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi Denys…
Re Man City:
OK it was 20 years ago but Criag Wilson did write this and a few others on them back in 04/05.
BTW I’m more Forest Green Rover since 2014 (and Chelsea) these days . I drum and am a standing season ticket holder .
Best
Crispin
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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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