Poem Of The Week + Shock Horror Rugby Plea ?
1 Poem Of The Week
2 Rugby Appeal …shock horror. but do read on!.
3 Butler & Dell’Oli …an item (in print).. honest !!
4 Give Us Back Our Game
1. POEM OF THE WEEK
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August RUN AFRICA RUN Ralph Hancock
2. RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007 POETRY APPEAL.
Dear readers and contributors, please allow this special
dispensation. The innovative web-site (click on coloured link)
OUR WORLD CUP was developed for the 2006 World Cup as a free football based educational resource and proved to be a staggering global success. We hope to do something similar for the rugby World Cup, and then the Olympics and so on and so on and so on. So, if you can pen anything about rugby then please post your offerings on to this site to me and mark them (Rugby). If any teachers wish to contribute worksheets etc then please let me know either via the e-mail link or in the submit a poem section. We hope to develop a totally cross-curricular rugby themed section on www.ourworldcup.co.uk – acting locally but thinking globally. It would be great to repeat the previous success through football of developing an international educational community. Just to reasssure the shocked out there among you , we guarantee NO Rugby , American/Aussie Rules Football, Hockey or Competitive Ironing poems will appear on THIS Football Poets site !
So please help if you can; many thanks, Stuart.
2 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 credits inspiration and 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
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’
A recent articles on ‘Give Us Back Our Game’ , in UEFA magazine..
with thanks to Paul Cooper of Give Us Back Our Game.
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Latest Comments
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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8th January 2024 at 10:42 am
There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.
Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads..
Great stuff Graham
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4th January 2024 at 10:13 am
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
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19th November 2023 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Gacina, glad you liked it, and I have just posted a new one about our points deduction…
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7th November 2023 at 6:34 pm
Today B.B.C post on F.B was titled:Premier League reduced to 18 clubs? I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern.If there would be more difficult battle to stay if there were 18 teams.Great poem and somehow true.
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