Archive for December, 2004
Swindon Town versus Colchester United
In a way, I couldn’t be bothered to put pen to paper, It didn’t seem right to write: All those bleeding heart Guardian letter page liberals, All that competitive outpouring of sympathy And right-on condemnation of western culture; Debates about the existence of God, The inexorable might of Nature, And the wonders of a goat […]
Let Football Wait & Kicking It Out With The Football Poets 04
Let Football Wait how can I ever again wait anxiously for news of other teams scores – while thousands wait anxiously for news of their lost loved ones? how can I ever without guilt look forward now to “important” games or anything when countless torn families have nothing to look forward to with vanished husbands […]
December review
For the first nine days of December, it didn’t look as if there were going to be any new contributors to the site – but now we can announce almost a whole first XI ; Steve Linstead Ian Beesley Andrew Smale D Aiken A Cosgrove Ken Bushnell Richard G Nyland Samia Iftekhar Andrew Foan Gerry […]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to all our readers and writers wherever you may be : from Danny in Canada, to Llew in Australia and everyone at many points in between. I thought there might be a let up in the number of poems submitted, coming up to Christmas, but not a bit of it. Plenty of new […]
War and Christmas – 2 pieces for peace
Christmas 1914 It came upon a midnight clear, That glorious song of old, And the angels bent down to the earth, And the machine guns changed into harps, And the leaden bullets turned into golden carols That drifted across no man’s land, On an otherwise silent but holy night, And all was clear and all […]
School News on the Trenches and Kick It Out
Lesson plans available from me on the Christmas Truce football theme- might be too late for this year but it’ll soon be round again, won’t it? Contact me at Brockworth Enterprise School, Gloucester. Also, a new Kick It Out competition for the new year; look at www.irespect.net for details. PS. It would be marvellous if […]
Christmas Truce, 1914
Ceasefire, Christmas 1914 Haiku mud and blood mixed likewise friend and foe what a match, 1914 note : For anybody interested in the subject of the Christmas Day Truce of 1914, and the match played in No Man’s Land, then check out the Archive section of this site. There is also a section dedicated to […]
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joe morris
25th April 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
25th April 2024
kevin halls
23rd April 2024
Alex Saynor
23rd April 2024
joe morris
23rd April 2024
Crispin Thomas
22nd April 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
21st April 2024
joe morris
20th April 2024
Clik The Mouse
15th April 2024
Mike Bartram
15th April 2024
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In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
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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29th January 2024 at 10:03 pm
Hi Crispin,
How are you doing mate? Yes, you’re probably right but hey football is all about emotion and passion and I just love writing about the game. I try to keep my poetry to a reasonable length but there’s so much to write about the game and its literature just lends itself naturally to poetry. Sometimes I just get completely carried and I do apologise for the length of my poetry but it’s a great thrill to be associated with Football Poets.
Cheers mate
Joe
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10th January 2024 at 7:52 pm
You’re right of course Joe but…..it’s actually more of a big welcome break for everyone who is not into Premier League ..I’m talking fans of EFL National League and below…..
Btw …is this actually your longest poem ever !?
Best
Crispin
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8th January 2024 at 4:45 pm
Thanks!
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