Your Team In September +Your 1st Match Poems
1 Your Team In September
2 Your First Match Poems
1 Your Team In September
September thoughts on Bolton, Carling Cup, Chelsea, Cork City, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derry, Everton, Ipswich Town, Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Middlesborough, Newcatle United, Norwich City, Republic of Ireland, , Russia , Torresgate, Tevezgate, Tottenham Hotspur, and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
30 Sep Boro – A Ghazal Khadim Hussain
29 Sep Derby Emily Williams
9 Sep A Premier Spot Darren eeffe
28 Sep Parting Gift Alan McKean
28 Sep Wantaway Tevez Tanka Alan McKean
24 Sep Taming Wolves-Liverpool 2-1 Woves Emdad Rahman
24 Sep Red hot Spurs Emdad Rahman
23 Sep Our cup run is over Khadim Hussain
22 Sep The die is cast Darren O’Keeffe
22 Sep In the pub watching the game kevin halls
22 Sep Late, Late show John Oliver
22 Sep Carling Cup Khadim Hussain
21 Sep A View From Behind The Goal kevin raymond
21 Sep That Damn Man Yoo Dennis Swift
20 Sep Marvin Emnes – Acrostic khadim Hussain
12 Sep Proud to be a Coventry fan kevin halls
12 Sep Kevin. Glyn Roberts
12 Sep Little Boy Blues Glyn Roberts
11 Sep No Mersey: Stoke City 1-0 Liverpool Emdad Rahman
10 Sep Hard times ahead. John Oliver
08 Sep Richard Dunne Colossus of Moscow Peter Goulding
07 Sep Unbowed though Outclassed Darren O’Keeffe
05 Sep The Yellow Phase S B Ingle
01 Sep My dream for Liverpool Stuart Ashworth
01 Sep A Charismatic Keeper-Matt Murray
Robbie Kennedy Bennett
2. Your First Match Poems- Selection 2000-2011
2011
In Awe Of Your Foe kevin raymond
My very first football match kevin halls
My introduction to a fantastic dream Stuart Ashworth
My First Time (ish!) mark merriman
Yer First Match Kevin Raymond
The First Time Mark Thomas
First Game Haiku Stuart Butler
The First Time 10 Dec ’77 S B Ingle
Delayed debut John Oliver
Can You Remember The First Time? Crispin Thomas
First Match Remembered Clik the mouse
My First Match Lea Page
First Match Magic Kevin Raymond
Up There With The Feeling Crispin Thomas
My First Match Stephanie Cole
The First Time Ever You Saw That Place Crispin Thomas
History Repeats Itself Clik The Mouse
First Game Alan McKean
The Day I Became A Liverbird
Louise Ann Lacy
Pocketful Of Goals Louise Ann Lacy
Losing To Plymouth Andrew Detheridge
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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
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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