FA Cup Round 3 Poems+Football Poetry Workshops
1 THEY’RE BACK -FA CUP POEMS.
2 FOOTBALL POETRY WORKSHOPS & DATES 2010
3 INNER GOAL the poetry of football by Crispin Thomas
1 FA CUP POEMS
It’s back. Round 3 .A hard round for the underdogs but well done Leeds, Reading, Coventry et al. Your poems new and old on the Cup appear below .Come on our very own Forest Green (now the last non-league side left , courtesy of a postponement of course !) . These poems will also appear on our MySpace site (eventually!) -which has a comments / messages section at Football Poets on MySpace
F.A. CUP POEMS 2010
04 Jan F.A.Cup 2010 John Oliver
04 Jan the revenge of the underdogs Miracle Needed! tri tran
04 Jan It’s Back! The Magic Of The FA Cup! Kevin Raymond
03 Jan Fulham v Swindon Town Stuart Butler
02 Jan Miracle Needed! Khadim Hussain
02 Dec Crispin’s on the road with Rovers
kevin halls
30 Nov Cup Stride In Our Step Crispin Thomas
28 Nov They’ve ruined the Cup draw kevin halls
18 Nov A46-Road To Wembley Crispin Thomas
06 Nov Paulton Rovers-Get the Map
SB Ingle
2 FOOTBALL POETRY WORKSHOPS & DATES 09/10
Hi – Workshops are now broadened to cover all sportsl . We are now taking bookings for workshops from mid-February 2010 onwards with sessions also still available for World Book Day and National Poetry Day. Contact Crispin Thomas- The Football Poets or phone 01453 757376 & 07837 798463
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January 2010
5-22 LEEDS & HARROGATE Schools & Study Centres (W)
27 CARDIFF Schools. Read A Million Words (W).
February ’10
10/11 MORPETH King Edward V1 TBC (W/G)
March ’10
1 HAMSTEAD Library (am)& GT.BARR Library(pm) (W)
2 CRADELY HEATH Library(am) ROUNDS GREEN Library(pm)(W)
SOME WORKSHOP LINKS
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EVERTON FC ‘ Making A Difference’ Workshop Review Crispin ThomasSession at Everton FC Extra Time Study Support Centre
BBC Video Nation (Real Player) Crispin at Forest Green Rovers with Casio and a ball.!
3 INNER GOAL GOAL the poetry of football..a journey in rhyme
by Crispin Thomas
(Illustrated/Paperback) Published by Football Poets Books
ISBN 9780955 737602 £8.99
click here INNER GOAL on Amazon
“Poems in the street, the ground and the heart, poetry with balls!”
Michael Foreman
“One of the pioneers of football poetry.Who ate all the pioneers”?”
Attila The Stockbroker
BOOK NOTES
“A rhythmic feast for football lovers everywhere both young and old. From rattles and rosettes to women’s football and the trenches, fantasy salaries and racism to mobile phones for goalposts. Spanning fifty years of watching and ten years of writing , Inner Goal is an affectionate and perceptive nod to the People’s Game in verse. A long-overdue and illustrated hard-copy paperback debut from football’s maverick performance poet featuring 75 poems, 65 haikus and hand-drawn illustrations from the author.
SHOPS:
National Football Musuem , Preston Tel 01772 908442
Stroud Bookshop , 23 High Street ,Stroud 01453 756646
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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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Latest Comments
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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6th November 2023 at 4:43 pm
Ashington FC have launched a £50,000 Crowdfunder appeal to meet the increased costs of winning promotion last season, to pay for urgent stadium improvements, travel costs and equipment
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31st October 2023 at 4:26 pm
‘Three Teams Worse Than Us’ from our Toffee friend Denys in Italy, also sums up how FGR fans currently feel. Yes, in our case, with two going down to the Conference, it could be entitled ‘Two Teams Worse Than Us’, but three would make us feel even safer.
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6th October 2023 at 11:49 pm
Enjoy it while you can, although I’m sure Mbappe could well be bound for St James
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2nd October 2023 at 1:52 pm
There still remains a magic about the early rounds of the FA Cup that the premier league / internationals can never match.
Coventry Sphinx v Leicester Nirvana sounds so much more than a tale of two cities etc. etc.
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24th September 2023 at 5:14 pm
Very accurate indeed!
Palace home for me is always a tough journey as well. From the wilds of west London to Selhurst is a random journey into the unknown.
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20th September 2023 at 1:37 pm
Lovely stuff for one of the best.
We love him to death down at the Palace.
I’ll post my Roy poem a bit later. You’ve inspired me to finish it.
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19th September 2023 at 5:06 pm
I’d like to think some of my scarves might get passed down the generations, but can’t see some of the “quality merchandise” I have making much past my son’s generation. They’ll fall apart before he even has kids, I reckon!
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7th September 2023 at 2:43 pm
Very true Crispin. Thanks!
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