143 World Cup Haiku-8 Tankas+World Cup Diaries
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Created by Stuart Butler/ Sheilagh Crowther of I Respect.
2010 FIFA World Cup -South Africa Official Site
1.WORLD CUP HAIKU 2010
2.139 World Cup haiku & 7 tanka
10 Jul Consolation? Paul Garratt
08 Jul Dunga’s sweater Emdad Rahman
08 Jul Ghana Emdad Rahman
08 Jul Nigeria ban Emdad Rahman
08 Jul Blatter goalline tech Emdad Rahman
08 Jul Motty Emdad Rahman
07 Jul Germany 0 Spain 1 Paul Garratt
07 Jul This little Piggy Eno
06 Jul Uruguay 2 Netherlands 3 Paul Garratt
05 Jul World Cup (USA-Ghana) Dave Bonta
04 Jul Germany Eno
02 Jul Mollycoddled Poseurs kevin halls
30 Jun How I felt ..Paul Tubb
29 Jun 3 Lions- Must Be Joking Kevin Halls
29 Jun on England leaving without competing: Haiku Paul H Tubb
28 Jun New Coach Crispin Thomas
27 Jun Fool’s Gold Paul Garratt
27 Jun England 1 Germany 4 Haiku Stuart Butler
23 Jun England 1 Slovenia 0 Paul Garratt
23 Jun watching England-12 haiku Crispin Thomas
23 Jun WC haiku & tanka Olna Firth
21 Jun Dissentu Paul Garratt
21 Jun 9 haiku World Cup Willie
20 Jun St George Cross 8 haiku kevin halls
20 Jun At Last Crispin Thomas
20 Jun Simulation Paul Garratt
20 Jun Losing & Alg 0 Eng 0 – 2 Haiku S B Ingle
19 Jun New England Coat of Arms Stuart Butler
19 Jun Bad To Worse-Kick & Rush Stuart Butler
19 Jun The F Factor haiku Crispin Thomas
18 Jun Tanka – World Cup Tony Lewis-Jones
17 Jun The Vuvuzela – 7 haiku kevin halls
15 Jun Lions not pussycats 7 haiku Kevin halls
14 Jun World Cup countries 32 haiku Crispin Thomas
14 Jun vuvuzela Crispin Thomas
14 Jun watching England Crispin Thomas
14 Jun without Essien Crispin Thomas
13 Jun Elfmeter Paul Garratt
13 Jun “So Come On England” Stuart Butler
13 Jun WC & Refugee Week Stuart Butler
12 Jun Half Time tanka Alan McKean
12 Chris Waddle Paradox Stuart Butler
11 Robben Island – 4 haiku Stuart Butler
11 World Cup 9 haiku Stuart Butler
9 World Cup 2 haiku Stuart Butler
8 hold on Crispin Thomas
8 WC watching in the pub kevin halls
8 Africa awaitsu Crispin Thomas
7 World Cup 6 haiku Stuart Butler
1 World Cup love Crispin Thomas
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3. WORLD CUP 2010 DIARIES
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3a Peter Goulding
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3b Emdad Rahman
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3c World Cup Willie
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initial draw
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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joe morris
29th October 2024
joe morris
17th October 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
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joe morris
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Mike Bartram
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joe morris
8th October 2024
Crispin Thomas
6th October 2024
joe morris
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Denys E. W. Jones
2nd October 2024
joe morris
2nd October 2024
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Latest Comments
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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23rd April 2024 at 4:03 pm
Hi Denys
With you all the way on the abolition of FA Cup replays. What are they doing to the game?
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