Your Team in May Poems
Our monthly collection of Your Poems specifically about Your
Team, Managers, Refs and basically anything .
From your end of season thoughts and summer speculation to new season predicitons… in verse or thereabouts of course !
Your May observations so far…with team name-checks, blame checks, game checks and rain-checks for: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Barcelona, Blattergate, Celtic, Chelsea, Cork City, Coventry City ,De Canio, England, England U21s, Everton, F.A Cup Fernandogate, Final, FIFA, Fulham, Glasgow Rangers, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester Utd, Middlesborough, Motherwell, Newcastle, Neil Lennon, Norwich City, Real Madrid, Relegation, Republic Of Ireland, Seppgate (also see Blattergate) Sir Alexgate, Summer, Swindon Town & Tottenham Hotspur
We don’t go away in the summer so keep ’em coming…or if you’re feeling footie starved already, grab the ferry or a cheap flight to join Darren and go and watch Cork City?
31 May Starry Starry Night kevin raymond
29 May Barca conquer Europe Emdad Rahman
29 May Messi Magic jim dolbear .
27 May Limited Resources Denys E. W. Jones
24 May l Fascist Football Managers Stuart Butler
23 May Saturday Night’s Alright kevin raymond
23 May The dreaded ‘R’ word Clik the mouse
23 May Final Day Villains 0-0 Liverpool Emdad Rahman
23 May In Arsene we trusted kevin
23 Final day Jitters kevin halls
21 May Unity Ki for Celtic Emdad Rahman
15 May Liverpool 0-2 Spurs Emdad Rahman
15 May 19-18 Tony Lewis-Jones
13 May The F.A.Cup Final kevin halls
13 May Neil Lennon Pat Malone
13 May our season is over kevin halls
09 May Fulham 2-5 Liverpool Emdad Rahman
09 May In Defence Of A Defenderkevin raymond
07 May Give Laurent Blanc the Rouge Card
Emdad Rahman
06 May Mogga Will Not Smile Khadim Hussain
05 May Terry Butcher’s Smug Mug Stuart McCann
04 May Such A Sham (e) evin raymond
04 May Back to Back – To the Future S B Ingle
03 May Intrigue Darren O’Keeffe
01 May Liverpool 3-0 Newcastle Emdad Rahman
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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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