Butler & Dell’Olio ! + 3 Memories Of The Week
Butler & Dell’Olio ! + Haikus Of Another Wet Week
1 Butler & Dell’Oli .together (in print) honest !!
2 Haikus Of Another Wet Week
3 Give Us Back Our Game
1 INCREDIBLE CREDIBILITY – NANCY DELL’ OLIO
Who would have thought that the humble Football Poets would appear in Nancy’s recently published autobiography? But, yes, folks, In an early chapter, Nancy Dell’Olio quotes four lines from Stuart Butler’s poignant Christmas Truce poem about the First World War and football in the trenches . Amazingly, this appears to be how Nancy discovered just how powerful a truce and football can be in the world . I can just see Sven looking over her shoulder in wonder, can’t you? This may be a reason to buy the book – but it would be easier to find better reasons………..perhaps. Like the black silk trench coat on the cover, maybe? But seriously ” Well done Stu…if well done is apt that is! ” Crispin
2 . HAIKUS OF ANOTHER WET WEEK I..IN THE UK
And we thought it would dry up in the close season.
Here are three fine and contrasting memories of yesterday .
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25 Jul Edson Reasons to be Cheerful (part 3)
Edson
20 Jul Hope Over Experience haiku S B Ingle
3 Give Us Back Our Game
Just Playing? Coaching? Letting kids be?
Is the (Children’s)Beautiful Game ruled by adults, over-zealous parents and coaches? Sweaters or pressures for Goalposts? G.U.B.O.G are tackling the problem..
31 May Give us Back Our Game Crispin Thomas
Visit The ‘Give Us Back Our Game’ website……………..
‘Give Us Back Our Game’
Two recent articles on ‘Give Us Back Our Game’ , one in UEFA magazine and the other from a national paper in New Zealand
Sunday Star Times, New Zealand
with thanks to Paul Cooper
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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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