F A Cup Poems + Football Poetry Workshops
1 FA CUP POEMS.
2 FOOTBALL POETRY WORKSHOPS & DATES 09/10
3 INNER GOAL the poetry of football by Crispin Thomas
FA Cup Poems + Football Poetry Workshops
1 FA CUP POEMS
Round 4 .Your poems new and old on the Cup appear below .
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 2009/2010
25 Jan The Cup Isn’t Dead-Long Live The Cup Crispin Thomas
24 Jan Just When You Think It’s Over!
kevin raymond
19 Jan Waiting For The Game (Notts C v Forest Green) Crispin Thomas
14 Jan Bad F.A Cup Away Days kevin raymond
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 versus 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 March 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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February ’10
Harrogate International Sporting Words Gestival/Workshops::
2 LEEDS Schools (Day) Headingley Learning Centre(Eve)Rhinos
3 LEEDS Schools (Day)Headingley Learning Centre/ Rhinos|(Eve)
4 LEEDS Schools (Day) Headingley Learning Centre
22 LEEDS Schools (Day)Headingley Learning Centre/ Rhinos (Eve)
23 LEEDS Schools (Day)Headingley Learning Centre/ Rhinos(Eve)
24 LEEDS Schools (Day)Headingley Learning Centre/
March ’10
1 HAMSTEAD Library (am)& GT.BARR Library(pm) (W)
2 CRADELY HEATH Library(am) ROUNDS GREEN Library(pm)(W)
May ’10
13 HADLEIGH.Suffolk. Hadleigh High School. Reading Week, (W)
June ’10
26 GLASTONBURY Festival Fluffy Rock Café. Afternoon. (G)
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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Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
24th April 2025 at 1:05 pm
Hey Denys..love this
“You may be a miner working down a pit.
You may be a rock star playing sold out gigs.
You may be a fireman putting out a blaze.
You may be an inmate chalking off the days. ”
Not just Dylan but maybe an unintentional nod to and shades of Ian Dury’s enigmatic ‘What A Waste’ rhythmic scanning..eg:
I could be the driver in an articulated lorry
I could be a poet I wouldn’t need to worry
I could be a teacher in a classroom full of scholars
I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs
What a waste
What a waste
Was lucky enough to meet and interview him twice.
Best wishes from Forest Green to Genoa C
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8th March 2025 at 2:34 pm
Thanks Crispin
I’ve been to FGR a couple of times in the past – great food! Barnet look like they have the NL sewn up for this season, but I wish you well for promotion next season.
Regards, Beth
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11th January 2025 at 8:13 am
TO ADD THIS TO THIS POEM’S COMMENT:WELCOME BACK DAVID MOYES!!!
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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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