Here We Go Again – Your New Season 09/10 Poems
Here We Go Again – Your New Season 09/10 Poems
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So it’s back. Sven’s at County, City are the boys under the palm trees and AFC and Luton are in the Conference. Ably supported by a local and manager-less Forest Green Rovers I add . Hey ho.
You’ve got the new kit , (in your mind)… renewed your season ticket, (in your mind).. bought everything going (in your mind), memorised the fixture list, (in your mind).. laminated it up to A3 and marked off televised away games (if you’re that lucky) on your Greenpeace /Official Club Calendar .
And that’s just about the rest of the year, and probably your ‘supposed to be precious’ life sorted too ? .Those with partners tread carefully, with regard to key date arrangements and stuff.Is it gonna be ‘same old-same old’? Probably but we continue, here in our 10th year online, (in our minds) on paper and here in verse! Just think, this time next year – the World Cup will be but a memory (in your mind).Time to get a 2010 wall chart. Bless.
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HERE WE GO AGAIN – NEW SEASON 09/10 POEMS
08 Aug 5 – 1 (Gunners Vanquished) Andy Lockett
07 Aug A New Dawn Approaches and.. kevin raymond
07 Aug seasonal sail I..I. Kappen
06 Aug Here We Go..Again Dennis Just Dennis
06 Aug Here We Logo Again Crispin Thomas
05 Aug Another Year Stuart Butler
28 Jul Sven’s In (K)Notts Crispin Thomas
23 Jul On and On kevin raymond
22 Jul The deck chair top John Oliver
19 Jul The New Fixture List kevin halls
18 Jul Goodbye Adebayor non humphries
18 July Free Trials and Tribulations kevin raymond
15 Jul He Want’s To Go?Then Let Him kevin raymond
14 Jul When Silence Becomes Deafening (Terrygate) Crispin Thomas
13 Jul The Scream kevin halls
03 Jul Wulfrunian Dreams Andy Lockett
03 Jul Pre-Season Haikus kevin halls
24 Jun Three Jagged White Stripesl kevin raymond
24 Jun there’s a Seagull Clik the mouse
23 Jun A quick haiku Dan Jackson
16 Jun forget football Clik the mouse
16 Jun One’s Team is In League One S B Ingle
16 Jun Summertime Blues S B Ingle
06 Jun Are You Bored Love? Yes! kevin raymond
2008 POEMS
30 Jul The End Of Football Crispin Thomas
29 Jul Yet another Saturday with no football Clik the mouse
26 Jul Pre-season paper selling non humphries
23 Jul What’s Occuring? Now! kevin raymond
23 Jul The Premiership Stuart Butler
22 Jul Expect more of the same John Oliver
22 Jul Lack of Expectations Non Humphries
22 Jul Late Expectations Crispin Thomas
16 Jul Waiting for season 08/09! non humphries
16 Jul Time To Get Real…. Lads! kevin raymond
14 Jul Closer Comes The Day Crispin Thomas
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27th November 2024 at 5:55 am
‘You’re Supposed To Be At Home’ is an excellent and moving poem Denys.
You start off thinking it’s just about another oft-sung chant, one we personally heard a lot last season throughout our second relegation in a row here at Forest Green(FGR) ! I always love poems where you think they are saying one thing and then they suddenly pull you deeper to somewhere or something else else.
I’m currently helping in a local school for FGR in a voluntary capacity using football to help young students with reading. At an upcoming session we will tackle racism, just like we did in workshops at football schools and grounds when we first started this site 24 years ago. I’m gonna try and weave your poem into a session.
We’ve added it to the Anti- Racism/Kick It Out section under Crispin’s Corner.
Best C
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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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