All Your May Team Poems
With name-checks for :Barnsley, Burnley, Chorley, Dover Athletic, Dulwich Hamlet, England, Forest Green Rovers, Kettering Town, Leicester City, Man Utd, Middlesborough, Millwall, Newcastle Utd, Northwich Victoria, Norwich, Nuneaton & Preston.
25 May Promotion Awaits Tykes Alun Robert (Barnsley / Millwall)
23 May Your Breaking News Ain’t Breaking Us Carol Ann Wood (Chelsea / Man Utd)
23 May I have a dream Dulwich Poet (Dulwich Hamlet)
20 May The Leicester City Dream James Foreman (Leicester City)
18 May Keep On Dreaming. (For Mr Ranieri)*
kevin raymond (Leicester City)
18 May Can’t Explain this Feeling
S B Ingle (Norwich City)
17 May The 26 Kevin Halls (England)
16 May Swapping blurts with Shakespeare
Slangtastic Sr Fox (Leicester City)
15 May Mighty Millwall From The Den
Laurie ( Millwall)
14 May Cider with Rovers haiku
Crispin Thomas (Forest Green Rovers)
13 May Hazard Trent Morris (Chelsea)
11 May Tinker Man
mark merriman (Leicester City)
11 May The Fosse Way
mark merriman (Leicester City)
11 May L.S.F(Leicester Sixteen Fantasy)
Kyle Norbury (Leicester City)
11 May Big Up To Leicester City
kevin raymond (Leicester City)
06 May The Sea is Calm Tonight
Stuart Butler (Forest Green Rovers/ Dover Athletic)
05 May Miracle Man
Slangtastic Sr Fox (Leicester City)
04 May Five Thousand To One
Trent Morris (Leicester City)
04 May Swapping Shirts with Shakespeare: Dover v Forest Green
Stuart Butler (Dover Ath/Forest Green)
03 May Super Foxes
Kevin Halls (Leicester City)
03 May Dilly Ding Dilly Dong
Crispin Thomas (Leicester City)
02 May Leicester City Champions Denys E. W. Jones (Leicester City)
02 May Can we say
Gacina Bozidar (Leicester City)
01 May For Boro Fans Friday is Fun Night! – Villanelle Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough)
01 May The Battle of Turf Moor
Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough/Burnley)
01 May Boro Haiku
Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough)
01 May I am a Boro fan
Khadim Hussain Middlesborough/Preston)
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Gacina Bozidar
3rd February 2023
Gacina Bozidar
3rd February 2023
joe morris
3rd February 2023
Stuart Butler
2nd February 2023
Denys E. W. Jones
30th January 2023
joe morris
29th January 2023
Crispin Thomas
25th January 2023
joe morris
23rd January 2023
Denys E. W. Jones
23rd January 2023
joe morris
14th January 2023
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Latest Comments
5th December 2022 at 8:11 pm
Stuart, you are not alone, in your dichotomy of doubt
but without dissention
you stand alone
in hogging our attention!
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16th November 2022 at 11:04 am
[Football on soiled turf]
This is a wonderful phrase which I shall be using from now on!
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15th November 2022 at 3:54 pm
Well said Crispin. One of the reasons for The Ball 2022/23 is exactly this – that FIFA need to know. The Ball is essentially a petition to FIFA to honour their commitments to the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. They signed up; they should act. The Qatar tournament takes the World Cup in the opposite direction to that commitment. And 2026 looks like it’ll be even worse.
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8th November 2022 at 2:06 pm
Hi Guys
Re ‘Lets Boycott Qatar ‘ poem
You probably hate me banging on..and problably know (like me) that my/your not watching the World Cup in Qatar will make no difference.
Of course it won’t. That’s not the point.
OK someone might possibly eventually publish a minimal drop in terrestrial TV viewer numbers, but I fear that is unlikely.
But please above all, do go on writing poems about the World Cup, as/you we have always done. I hate to think a poem or two of mine might l make you feel bad about comenting on a game or country …or that I’ve put you all off about wanting to contribute.
So we’d love to hear from you and read your thoughts and observations, as ever on what’s going on.
Some of us have been here since Football Poets website birth/inception for the Euros 2000 ….
All my best wishes
Crispin
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18th October 2022 at 10:06 am
Shoot! (Something we’ve also been screaming in vain at our team all season !)
Great memories Joe . Before Shoot, it was Roy of the Rovers comic too, dropping through my letterbox.
Anxiously waiting each week to see if they survived in the mexcian jungle after an ambush..or a pre-season earthquake!
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3rd October 2022 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for the kind words Sharon. Yes, it was a shame with Billy Shako, but with five subs now being allowed, he might yet make it off the bench. Even if it’s just a cameo to close out a poem.
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2nd October 2022 at 1:49 pm
John, your new book is an absolute delight and more please. It’s a shame ‘Swapping Shirts With Shakespeare’ never made it off the bench, but quality football poets light up the writing fields like Roman candles. Go well.
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4th September 2022 at 12:42 pm
Great memories Greg. Took me right back.
Today I stand on a small terrace in the hills where I live watching Forest Green Rovers in L1, and keep up with Chelsea on highlights. It’s a far cry and a world away from those times when I lived as a child within walking distance of ‘The Bridge’ – just off the Ifield Road, which led to Fulham Road. The Blues were rubbish for so long, but we loved them and somehow we stayed in the old First Division for so many seasons. And of course we got to see Greavesie at his impudent best, scoring goals for fun. Mad unpredictable games where we’d score 4 and let in five.
The looming floodlights in the dark and mist on magic night games. The big games when the ground heaved.
I don’t think we ever realized how magical and incredible it was back then. The atmosphere and arriving there so early – like you said.. just to make sure you got in. Back when Bovril, tea and cake and roasted peanuts for sixpence a back were just about all on offer.
Good times.
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4th September 2022 at 12:37 pm
see above
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18th August 2022 at 10:20 am
To put it politely!
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