Bye Bye Beckham & FA Cup Poems… Send ‘Em In
Please send us your farewell (!) Beckham thoughts .and as usual keep them clean. Please also submit your FA Cup memories and views on FA Cup matches from yesterday to now… if enough interest or submissions we’ll include all cups .
New Beckham poems and a selection of recent Cup poems follow…
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Go well Crispin & Stu
BYE BYE BECKHAM POEMS
14 Jan Over The Hill And Far Away
Crispin Thomas
13 Jan Beckham. Not done for the money
George Kirby
13 Jan Megabecks mark merriman
13 Jan David Beckham Evolution Haiku Stuart Butler
12 Jan California here we come John Oliver
FA CUP POEMS
Jan 2007
09 Jan Oh the romance of the FA Cup Emdad Rahman
08 Jan Up For The Cup With Vince Crispin Thomas
08 Jan Golden Days John Oliver
08 Jan Thirty Six Years On Andy Lockett
07 Jan Hull City v Boro – FA Cup 07 George Kirby
07 Jan Tamworth v Norwich – FA Cup Third Round S B Ingle
06 Jan This Is The FA Cup Crispin Thomas
06 Jan Still That Old Cup Cliché Magic Crispin Thomas
2006 & Pre-2006 FA Cup Poems
The FAmous Cup Mark Thomas
The Quest Goes On John Oliver
Still Up For The Cup Crispin Thomas
FA Cup 3rd Round 2006 Clik The Mouse
And So The FA Cup Resumes Peter Goulding
The Trains Are On Time On Cup Final Day Stuart Butler
The Glamour Of The Cup Kevin Raymond
Leave The FA Cup Alone Paul Collins
The FA Cup The Hard Way Nikki Young
The Cup RIP Andy Lockett
I Died A Thousand Deaths Christopher T George
Cup Tie SB Ingle
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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joe morris
26th November 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
26th November 2024
Gacina Bozidar
26th November 2024
Wynn Wheldon
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joe morris
17th November 2024
Crispin Thomas
17th November 2024
kevin halls
10th November 2024
joe morris
10th November 2024
Clik The Mouse
10th November 2024
Clik The Mouse
6th November 2024
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
26th November 2024 at 1:59 pm
Great poem and great to see you back Wyn.
Don’t leave it so long next time my friend!
More please.
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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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