Part of It All
PART OF IT ALL (at the heart of football)
well it’s starting to get pretty late now
it’s getting real late in the year
we might as well wait til next season my friend
when the heart becomes hopeful and clear
and lately i’m thinking how fickle it it is
and this time we surely will fall
but you and i know that wherever we go
we’re just glad to be part of it all
yeah it’s one of those times when you start to get real
and you feel like you just might break through
and it’s one of those times when you scream out loud
about what in the world can we do
like the anger at racist abusing
and the lowness of names that they call
do we turn a blind eye or just stand up and cry
for the future of life and football
and i don’t understand all this madness
this money this greed and this pain
the hatred of skin or just some other team
that just comes round again and again
but i’ve never been scared to speak from my heart
though sometimes it’s like a brick wall
but i’ll read you this poem
be you schoolgirl or Owen
and be glad to be part of footballl
and just when you feel like it’s worth sweet F.A.
and this is another dark day
some one phones in and they cry on the air
for their team or the way that they play
and i don’t feel naive to be feeling like this
and each season it ends up the same
i’m just always amazed at the twists that unfold
in this life and this beautiful gamel
@crispin thomas – stroud nov 03
Notes:
this is a poem /song that i wrote recently
which i’ve cunningly adapted..it’s about
not turning up at drug tests, clubbing, Leeds problems,Chelsea’s affluence,headline allegations,racism ,dodgy agents,
,superstar lifestyles ,arrogance and all the other good things about the game ! It’s also for..
for lovers and losers
and people in pain
and also for winners
in this funny old game..
and for jennie
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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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