More August Team Poems+Save Our Site
August mentions for Arsenal, Atletico Goiaiense (Brazil|), Aston Villa,( the) Ball, Bolton, Burnley, Chelsea, Colliers Wood United, Coventry, Croydon, Dulwich Hamlet, Everton, Exeter City Hendon, Liverpool, Lowestoft Town, Newcastle, Northampton, Queen of the South, Swindon Town, Stoke City & Wealdstone.More please.
29 Aug The Oldest Football Club Hugh Morris
29 Aug “Flight of Fancy” Dulwich Poet
28 Aug “Scaffold Brigada” Dulwich Poet
25 Aug Sturridge sinks Villains Emdad Rahman
23 Aug Plastic Fan Dulwich Poet
23 Aug Away Days (1) mark merriman
23 Aug The Dividing Comedy Don Tay
22 Aug
“Grassroots” Dulwich Poet
19 Aug All Over Already? mark merriman
18 Aug Red curtains rise at Anfield Emdad Rahman
16 Aug Losing the Passion kevin halls
16 Aug Two On The Spin Dulwich Poet
13 Aug The Greatest Team On Earth Crispin Thomas
13 Aug Frivolity or Equality? S B Ingle
10 Aug J.F.K John Oliver
09 Aug Working offsite Clik the mouse
05 Aug Cobblers to Northampton kevin halls
03 Aug Kick off Alan McKean
03 Aug Communion Alan McKean
02 Aug The eve of a new Season kevin halls
02 Aug Rob Martinez’ Blue and White Army Denys E. W. Jones
31 Jul A New Season Dawns Phil Whyte
31 Jul New Season Dawns Khadim Hussain
31 Jul It’s That Time Of The Year Khadim Hussain
21 Jul “No Plant Pot Glory” Dulwich Poet
25 Jul Rooms By The Hour Andrew Detheridge
Football Poets Est. June 2000.Unfunded for 13 years.
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1. DONATIONS NEWS Target 2000. August 2013 Up-date.£260.00.
2. TECHNICAL SITUATION /ABOUT THE SITE .
3. SAVE OUR SITE APPEALby Simon Icke. March 2012
4. FOOTBALL POETS on Twitter & Facebook. Be involved!
1. DONATIONS Received Update £260.00 (Target £2000.)
If everyone who visited and contributed poems to this site sent £10 we’d achieve our goal needed to save and revamp the site (see below)
What is sad is that thousands view this site daily and hundreds of you contribute poems but so far only 11 have pledged financial support.
Received between March 15 and 13th Nov
:Contributors (11):
Tony Lewis Jones £10 / Paul Tubb (Ireland) £10 /
Mark Merriman £20 / Denys Jones (Italy) £75 / Stuart Butler £40 / Crispin Thomas £20 / Simon Icke £30 / Kevin Halls £10 /
Eddie Gibbons £10 / SB Ingle £25 / Matthew Paul £10 Total : 260.00
Please send anything you can spare and a HUGE thank you for The above donations so far…we need a few thousand but it all helps. Do include an email /snail-mail / postal adress so we can offically receipt/thank you.
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2.TECHNICAL SITUATION / ABOUT THE SITE Clik the mouse
The Football Poets is 12 years old now and has been struggling for some time .The site is extremely large and written in old technology (ASP) and currently houses over 14,100 published poems. We have to look at a complete re-vamp in order for the site to survive. We carry the cost of annual hosting, but other than that there is no budget for anything.
The Football Poets site experienced severe difficulties on Wednesday 15th February and has been struggling for some time .The site is 12 years old now, extremely large, and written in old technology (ASP), whilst also coping with housing 28000 submissions . We now finally have to look at any ways possible of making a complete re-vamp in order for the site to survive . We alone carry the cost of annual hosting, but other than that there is no budget for anything.
All suggestions: technicial advice, sponsor suggestions, donations welcome. email The Football Poets (editors@footballpoets.org)
Clik – Editor
3.SAVE OUR SITE APPEALby Simon Icke. March 2012
Important message from Simon Icke
Unpaid political writer, campaigner & poet March 2012
“S.O.S. ( Save Our Site) Calling all football/soccer poets, football fans and people interested in promoting literacy and poetry, especially linking poetry with a subject they love; Football! Football! Football!.. this is the world’s original and by far the largest football poetry web site. It has received thousands of entries over the years and hundreds of thousands of unique visitors to the site; it is loved by Football poets worldwide and thousands of poems from the site have been filed for safe keeping by the British Library:
British Library Link:
www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/120341
This is a grass roots poetry initiative that has survived for 12 years without funding from any source and it now deserves the support of government and commercial organisations in order to survive , in fact anyone who might be interested in Football or poetry or both; like thousands of people who already value and contributed to this football poetry site in the past. It would be a massive loss to both football and to grass roots poetry if this website were to fold due to lack of funding. Thank you Simon Icke
Email address: poetsimon@aol.com
Please contact Crispin Thomas (one of the original creators and editors of this website) direct if you can offer any advice or support or at least know others who might be interested in coming to their rescue.Write to:
Crispin Thomas, The Editor, Football Poets,
4 The Retreat, Butterow Stroud Glos.GL5 2LS UK.
Tel 01453 757376 Mob: 07837 798463
All suggestions technicial advice, sponsor suggestions etc; welcome. email Football Poets (editors@footballpoets.org)
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Footbal Poets on Facebook Launched March 2012
NOW UP TO 159 ‘LIKES’ !
Let’s reach 1000 to help our appeal for financial support / funding.
Aside from people looking at our new pages of those 159: 50 are ‘football poet’ ‘Likers’ (just some of those who contribute with their poems here regularly) .Those Football Poets who’ve clicked ‘Like’ so far …(MORE PLEASE!)..are :
Alan McKean, Christian Wach, Christopher T George (USA) Crispin Thomas (Editor), Dachlan Cartwright, Daniel McDonagh (Canada), Daniel Nice, Darren O’Keefe (Ireland), Dennis ‘Just Dennis’ Monaghan, Dennis Swift, Don Mullan, Eddie Gibbons , Emdad Rahman, Emily Williams, Gacina Galles (Southern France) , Greg Freeman, Harry Owen (S.Africa), Jim Dolbear, Jimmy Whelan, Joanna Ginger, Jools Hampton, Ken Bushell, Keith Armstrong, Kevin Halls, Kevin O’Donaghue, Khadim Hussain, Laijon Liu, Louis Stothard, Mark Merriman, Mike Hopkins (Australia), Nathan Levy, Patrick Osada, Paul Conneally, Paul Phraser (Poor-Phraser) Paul Hatt, Paul Tubb (Ireland), Peter Goulding (Co-Editor/ Ireland), Phil Brennan, Rik Manning, Rosemary Dun, Si Gorin, Simon Icke, Steve Hill , Steve White and Tomas de Faoite.. in addition to all long time friends of the site including Larry (Israel) & Bruce (S.Africa)+ Anna Saunders (Cheltenham Poetry Festival Organiser), Carolyn Findlay (Cheltenham Poetry Festival) & Jim Sells (Premier League Reading Stars/National Literacy Trust.) + Sarah Wardle (Spurs poet in residence)+ loads of good personal friends- but we need loads more ..so please come on !
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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
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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