All Your Dec Team Poems+Christmas Poems
1. DECEMBER TEAM POEMS
2. CHRISTMAS POEMS
1 DECEMBER TEAM POEMS
December name checks and mentions for :Birmingham C, Bognor Town, Bolton W, Brighton, Chelsea,Dulwich Hamlet, Hull C, Kingstonian, Leicester C, Levante, Liverpool, Man Utd, Middlesborough, Millwall, Newcastle Utd, Sheffield Wednesday, Valencia & WBA
31 Dec Return to the Top – Haiku Khadim Husssain (Middlesborough / Brighton)
31 Dec Summit of the Championship Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough /Sheff Wed)
30 Dec Special K’s Dulwich Poet (Dulwich Hamlet / Kingstonian))
30 Dec Pavel Srnicek John Oliver (Newcastle Utd)
28 Dec In the wrong hands John Oliver (Newcastle Utd)
27 Dec Reffoxed Emdad Rahman (Liverpool / Leicester C)
23 Dec Top of the Table -Tanka Khadim Husssain (Middlesborough / Brighton)
20 Dec The Voice of Reason kevin raymond (Chelsea)
20 Dec Lose Louis . Ianthe Exall (Man Utd)
19 Dec Hakuna Matata! Khadim Husssain (Middlesborough/ Hull C)
19 Dec Tis the Season to Watch Boro – Villanelle . Khadim Husssain (Brighton/ Middlesborough)
19 Dec Waiting For the Flood Gates to Open – Villanelle . Khadim Husssain (Middlesborough / Birmingham C)
18 Dec Blues Cafe Trent Morris(Chelsea)
17 Dec Klopp v Cap mark merriman (Liverpool / WBA)
12 Dec Can it Get Any Worse Alan Valentine (Bolton W / Hull C)
11 Dec I Could’ve Been A Lion Dulwich Poet (Dulwich H / Millwall)
11 Dec “Bugger Bognor” Dulwich Poet (Dulwich H / Bognor Town)
05 Dec Valencia has two clubs Gacina Bozidar (Valencia)
01 Dec Twixt Tears and Tyne John Oliver (Newcastle Utd)
2 FOOTBALL CHRISTMAS POEMS 2014
101 years on from the 1914 Christmas Truce, your poems on this and all things football and Christmas
2015
19 Dec Christmas 2015 Mike Bartram
13 Dec A Christmas Prayer Mike Bartram
2014
30 Dec Festive Fixtures E Power
24 Dec Bydand Trent Morris
23 Dec Merry Christmas Geof Dawson
22 Dec The Great Christmas Truce 1914 Emdad Rahman
22 Dec Young Bertie Hislop (no man’s land hero) John J O’Connor
19 Dec Team Sheet Alan Mckean
19 Dec The Un-Final Count of Footballers Lost 1914-1918 Crispin Thomas
17 Dec The 25th Christmas Mike Bartram
16 Dec 13 Dec More Than a Game Ianthe Exall
11 Dec Forest Green Rovers and WW1 Stuart Butler
06 Dec A Sixties Lad’s Christmas List kevin halls
08 Dec A Christmas Carroll Simon Caplan
03 Dec If I Were A Wise Man Trent Morris
02 Dec The Game – Christmas 1914 Jean Maskell
30 Nov Football In Winter kevin halls
18 Nov Football In The Trenches Stuart Butler
17 Nov The Sainsbury’s Advertisement Stuart Butler
14 Nov One Christmas In The Trenches (but not for Sainsbury) Crispin Thomas
14 Nov One Christmas Truce in the Supermaket Crispin Thomas
14 Nov Fields of Red Dulwich Poet
14 Nov The 1914 Truce in Context Stuart Butler
14 Nov Live and Let Live Stuart Butler
2013
30 Dec The other WW1 Christmas Football Matches Lou Butler
24 Dec The great Christmas truce of 1914 Emdad Rahman
24 Dec Last Game Before Christmas.. kevin raymond
24 Dec Young Bertie Hislop John J O’Connor
18 Dec Looking For Black Boots Crispin Thomas
16 Dec One Christmas Morning kevin halls
16 Dec Crocked kevin raymond
13 Dec Christmas 1914
Stuart Butler
2012
One Christmas In The Trenches
Crispin Thomas
1914, the game of truce Clik the mouse
A Christmas Wish Come True Peter Goulding
Come Back Dad (Again) Stuart Butler
St Stephen’s Morning kevin raymond
So here it is Merry Christmas P Maguire
Selection 2011-2000
2011
28 Dec Day After Christmas Khadim Hussain
25 Dec Christmas Truce of 1914 Emdad Rahman
25 Dec Boxing Day Emily Williams
23 Dec 12 Points for Christmas Khadim Hussain
23 Dec Merry Christmas, 2011 Clik the mouse
19 Dec Twelve Points of Christmas S B Ingle
19 Dec Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts S B Ingle
2010
21 Dec A Christmas Wish Darren O’Keeffe
17 Dec Boxing Day and New Year Haikus kevin halls
16 Dec A Geordie Xmas wish John Oliver
16 Dec 12 Days of Christmas Clik the mouse
12 Dec Mark Hughes’ cancelled Fulham’s Xmas party ron dixon
12 Dec Christmas Wish List kevin halls
07 Dec Another Christmas In Afghanistan & Iraq Crispin Thomas
02 Dec Those Were The Days kevin halls
01 Dec Proud to Wear the Shirts mark merriman
28 Nov A Sad Christmas Tale Peter Goulding
25 Nov Swapping Garrincha Kevin Halls
22 Nov I’m A Collector Get Me Out of Here Crispin Thomas
18 Nov Any stickers to swap ? John Oliver
2009
28 Dec Dancing with Wolves Emdad Rahman
27 Dec The day after Christmas Khadim Hussain
24 Dec 3 Xmas Cheers For Sky kevin raymond
24 Dec Gifted S B Ingle
23 Dec Christmas 2009 Clik the mouse
22 Dec Letter to Santa Khadim Hussain
19 Dec Boxing Day Memories John Oliver
11 Dec Christmas Haikus Kevin Halls
11 Dec Dear Santa/Wish List Kevin Halls
06 Dec Vacant Seat In The Stand jim dolbear
06 Dec Hitching To A Game At Xmas Crispin Thomas
2008
Dec 28 Among These Hills At Christmas Crispin Thomas
24 Dec Merry Christmas, 2008 Clik the mouse
23 Dec What I Want For Christmas! kevin raymond
23 Dec An Ulterior Motive…Maybe kevin raymond
17 Dec The Rodborough Doggy Tree Basil the Westie
16 Dec Christmas With Basil Crispin
14 Dec Boxing Day Game Alan McKean
12 Dec sexism stadia & seasons Le Plume de Football
12 Dec Not Going To Auntie Flo’s kevin halls
10 Dec While the Shepherd’s watched John Oliver
02 Dec A Burnley Song for Christmas Vintage Claret
2007
14 Dec Christmas 1952. John Oliver
13 Dec Christmas Daze! Kevin Raymond
12 Dec A Boy’s Christmas Wish Jim Dolbear
12 Dec Old Firm Christmas Daniel McDonagh
12 Dec A Celtic Christmas Daniel McDonagh
10 Dec It’s the Pantomine Season! Me
07 Dec Tackled by Christmas Paul H Tubb
2006
28 Dec Christmas Past and Present Stuart Butler
28 Dec Nil-Nil The Bitter Pill SB Ingle
27 Dec Carrow Road, St Stephens Day kevin raymond
27 Dec Christmas Truce 2006 SB Ingle
27 Dec Long Time Ago at Christmas SB Ingle
25 Dec Letters to Santa Part 2 mark merriman
25 Dec Merry Christmas, Jose L D R
24 Dec Letters to Santa mark merriman
24 Dec A Mother’s Dilemma! kevin raymond
20 Dec Team Talk John Cox
15 Dec A Christmas Tale (2006) Mark Thomas
14 Dec On The Straw Behind The Goal John Oliver
13 Dec A Sad Christmas Tale Peter Goulding
13 Dec Whatever Next? Stuart Butler
10 Dec Christmas Anoraks Crispin
2005-2000
Play Football Not War Tony Lewis Jones
Xmas Trenches Crispin Thomas
Football In The Trenches Stuart Butler
Christmas In Iraq Crispin
Young Bertie Hislop John J O’Connor
In The Trenches Crispin
War & Christmas Stuart Butler
Ceasefire Christmas 1914 Haiku Clik The Mouse
The Christmas Truce 1914 Mark Thomas
Coached By Donkeys Verdun
The World’s Greatest Tommy Atkins
One Christmas Crispin Thomas
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Latest Comments
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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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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