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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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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