And we’re off @ World Cup Russia~ June 2018
Great to see all your World Cup poems already. Check out the new archive sections ‘Your World Cup Poems’ and ‘Your World Cup Haiku’ in Crispin’s Corner. All your World Cup poems get saved there. A new World Cup poem features every day. . Please TAG YOUR POEMS ‘World Cup 2018’/‘Russia’/’England’ or whichever country/countries you include in your poem. They’re loaded and saved as tags for you to use. Try not to enter multiple poems on the same day.. Kindly spread them out to allow other some space. If you write poems on every game played on one day in the early rounds...(as quite a few did last time) ..can you kindly put those all in one poem on that day…so as not to over dominate the list of new poems on that day…(thanks)
LOOK HOW MANY POEMS AND HAIKU WE RECEIVED LAST TIME IN BRAZIL 2014 ON THE OLD SITE!!!!!
321 Individual World Cup Brazil 2014 POEMS~
Peter Goulding 78; Emdad Rahman 64; Trent Morris 57; Kevin Raymond 40;
World Cup Willie 25; Kevin Halls 9; Crispin Thomas 8; Henri Astier 7; David Sanderson 7; Graham Salter 5 ; E. Power 3; B.Bilston 3; ; Denys E Jones 2; Alex Saynor 2; Bozidar Gacina 3; Khadim Hussain 2; A.Hofler / J.Holland / B.KIrk ;Dachlan Cartwright / J .Cummin / Dulwich Poet / SB Ingle / M.McSweeney / D Osgerby / Gini P/ N.Humphries / D.Monaghan / H.Birtles / P.Tubb (All: 1)
329 BRAZIL 14 WORLD CUP HAIKU
CrispinThomas 119; Kevin Halls 59; Kevin Raymond 54; Trent Morris 39;
P.Garrett 16; E. Power 12; Jim Dolbear 8; Alex .Saynor 7; Emdad. Rahman 6; Alan McKean 4; Khadim Hussain 3; Peter .Goulding 1;Stuart Butler 1
Looking forward to your poems and haiku
All the best from Football Poets
Crispin, Clik The Mouse, Christian and Stuart Butler.
PS IF YOU WANT TO CHECK OUT THE FRONT PAGE OF THE OLD SITE AND THE POEMS DURING WORLD CUP BRAZIL JUNE 2014, You can FIND IT ARCHIVED in the British Library archive section UNDER June 2014 just click on the llink on the home page of the current site…keep on… Crispin/Chridtian/ Clik |The Nouse & Stuart Butler.
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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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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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