Christmas Truce Poems
Your Christmas Truce 1914 Football Poems~ Selection 2000-2023
2023
19 Sep The Christmas Truce Phil Brennan
2021
19 Dec The First World War football truce joe morris
2018~ 100th Anniversary of WW1 End
27 Dec It Came Upon A Midnight Clear – Stuart Butler
05 Dec One Christmas in the Trenches ~ Centenary-Crispin Thomas
23 DecThe Truce traduced –Clik The Mouse
2014 ~ 100th Anniversary of WW1 Start
24 Dec Bydand Trent Morris
22 Dec The Great Christmas Truce of 1914 –Emdad Rahman
22 Dec Young Bertie Hislop (no man’s land hero) – John J O’Connor
19 Dec The Un-Final Count of Footballers Lost 1914-1918 –Crispin Thomas
18 Nov Football In The Trenches -Stuart Butler
02 Dec The Game – Christmas 1914 Jean Maskell
17 Nov The Sainsbury’s Advertisement Stuart Butler
14 Nov One Christmas Truce in the Supermaket Crispin Thomas
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
13 Dec Christmas 1914 –Stuart Butler
2012
1914, the game of truce Clik the mouse
2011
23 Dec Christmas Day Truce, 1914 – Clik The Mouse
16 Dec More Than a Game Ianthe Exall
11 Dec Forest Green Rovers and WW1 Stuart Butler
2009
01 Apr WW1 Poets fast forward to here and now –Eoin Brooke
2007
19 Dec xmas truce match haiku –Emdad Rahman
2006
27 Dec Long Time Ago at Christmas SB Ingle
27 Dec Christmas Truce 2006 – S B Ingle
24 Dec In The Trenches Crispin Thomas (haiku)
2005
21 Dec One Christmas Crispin Thomas (haiku)
2004
22 Dec Ceasefire Christmas 1914 Haiku Clik The Mouse
13 Oct The Christmas Truce 1914 Mark Thomas
2003
18 Dec Coached By Donkeys Verdun
15 Dec The World’s Greatest Tommy Atkins
2002
Dec 20 Play Football Not War Tony Lewis Jones
2000
23 Dec War & Christmas Stuart Butler
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kevin halls
18th March 2024
Richard Williams
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14th March 2024
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6th March 2024
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3rd March 2024
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29th January 2024 at 10:03 pm
Hi Crispin,
How are you doing mate? Yes, you’re probably right but hey football is all about emotion and passion and I just love writing about the game. I try to keep my poetry to a reasonable length but there’s so much to write about the game and its literature just lends itself naturally to poetry. Sometimes I just get completely carried and I do apologise for the length of my poetry but it’s a great thrill to be associated with Football Poets.
Cheers mate
Joe
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10th January 2024 at 7:52 pm
You’re right of course Joe but…..it’s actually more of a big welcome break for everyone who is not into Premier League ..I’m talking fans of EFL National League and below…..
Btw …is this actually your longest poem ever !?
Best
Crispin
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8th January 2024 at 4:45 pm
Thanks!
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8th January 2024 at 10:42 am
There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.
Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads..
Great stuff Graham
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4th January 2024 at 10:13 am
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
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19th November 2023 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Gacina, glad you liked it, and I have just posted a new one about our points deduction…
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7th November 2023 at 6:34 pm
Today B.B.C post on F.B was titled:Premier League reduced to 18 clubs? I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern.If there would be more difficult battle to stay if there were 18 teams.Great poem and somehow true.
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6th November 2023 at 4:43 pm
Ashington FC have launched a £50,000 Crowdfunder appeal to meet the increased costs of winning promotion last season, to pay for urgent stadium improvements, travel costs and equipment
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31st October 2023 at 4:26 pm
‘Three Teams Worse Than Us’ from our Toffee friend Denys in Italy, also sums up how FGR fans currently feel. Yes, in our case, with two going down to the Conference, it could be entitled ‘Two Teams Worse Than Us’, but three would make us feel even safer.
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6th October 2023 at 11:49 pm
Enjoy it while you can, although I’m sure Mbappe could well be bound for St James
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