Archive for the ‘Poems’ Category
Your Hillsborough Poems
YOUR HILLSBOROUGH POEMS 2000-2019 – Our selection of poems published on the new site since 2015 and the original/old Football Poets website (2000-2015) now preserved/archived by the British Library. They recall and remember the lives of those 96 souls we lost. The tragic Hillsborough disaster occurred during the semi-final FA Cup tie : Liverpool v Nottingham Forest […]
Your Nostalgia Poems
Hi – Your Nostalgia / Football Memories Poems ; 2000-Present ~ Many of these poems were first published on the original/old Football Poets site established June 2000 and have been archived by British Library. In many cases you can click on poem title to link to poem and click on poet name to link to […]
Football At Christmas Poems
YOUR FOOTBALL AT CHRISTMAS POEMS 2000-2018 2018 05 Dec One Christmas in the Trenches ~ Centenary Crispin Thomas 2015 13 Dec A Christmas Prayer Mike Bartram 16 Mar World Cup at Christmas? S B Ingle 2014 Dec Festive Fixtures E Power 23 Dec Merry Christmas Geof Dawson 19 Dec Team Sheet Alan Mckean 17 Dec The 25th Christmas Mike […]
Your RIP Poems
Your RIP/Remembrance Poems for those lost. Published: 2000-Now ~ 2019: Justin Edinburgh; Stevie Chalmers; Billy McNeill; Tommy Smith; Gordon Banks; Emiliano Sala; Hugh McIlvanney; 2018: Roy Bentley; Alex Young; Tommy Lawrence; Ray Wilkins; WW1 Centenary; 2017: Ronnie Moran; Alex Young; Ugo Ehiog; 2016: Johan Cruyff; ACF Chapocoense Air Crash ; 2015: Howard […]
Your Euros Poems
Your Euro 2016 Poems – 2016 21 Jul Euro 2016 XII: C’est fini! – U Rowe 12 Jul Everything But The Goal ~ Euro 16 Final –Crispin Thomas 12 Jul Post-Euro 2016 – Ianthe Exall 11 Jul Final – Portugal fulfil their Euro destiny – Emdad Rahman 10 Jul Griezmann fires France to Euro 2016 final – Emdad […]
Christmas Truce Poems
Your Christmas Truce 1914 Football Poems~ Selection 2000-2018 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 […]
Kick It Out Poems
KICK IT OUT/ANTI RACISM POEMS 2000- Present (Selection) This section is being compiled and is still in selection process. Crispin/Editor 11 Dec (2018) Kick It Out – kevin halls 09 Aug (2017)Towards Inclusive Atmospheres – Crispin Thomas 19 Feb (2015) Still Trying To Kick It Out (2015 Re-Mix) – Crispin Thomas 16 Jun (2014) Kick it out E […]
Your Munich Poems
.Your Munich Poems 2004-2015 On February 6th 1958, 23 people RIP (of the 44 passengers & crew) lost their lives when a plane crashed at Munich Airport, attempting to take off in heavy snow. Among the dead, were members of Manchester United Football Club, returning from a European Cup tie v Red Star Belgrade. New […]
2017 / 2018 New Season Dawns
Welcome. Great to see so many new and previous poets/posters on our growing site. If you are new here, you can register for free on the Football Poets website, enabling you to post/publish your football poems. If you posted poems on the old site you can also re-claim all your previous poems into your own profile. […]
Throw Back Cup Ties Rap
it’s a throw back draw it’s like days of yore when the chips are down you couldn’t ask for more I said what an amazing fifth round draw I said big up Lincoln and Sutton* too up at Forest Green …seen what they can do knocked out Rovers*to make Round two the so-called minnows have […]
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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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Eddie Gibbons
14th September 2019
Eddie Gibbons
14th September 2019
Crispin Thomas
13th September 2019
Alan McKean
11th September 2019
Dennis Swift
2nd September 2019
Sharon Jones
31st August 2019
Sharon Jones
31st August 2019
Sharon Jones
31st August 2019
Sharon Jones
30th August 2019
Clik The Mouse
28th August 2019
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
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30th August 2019 at 2:19 pm
I really, really wish I’d thought of that closing line!
Absolute classic!
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2nd August 2019 at 12:01 pm
Wow. That is a fantastic tale John.Thank you. Funny and sad but hysterical. You totally captured the vibe back then.I was too small to see in those huge crowds at the Bridge when i first went to Chelsea on Dec 25 ’57 (Chelsea 7-4 Portsmouth (when Greaves scored 4) but remember …ev’ry week so well …the old Peanut sellers chucking their peanuts to the crowd .And then us chucking our sixpences back .(Tanner a bag) And then stamping on them or chucking back the shells at our mates and the cops too. God Bless Mrs Michella the Crystal Palace peanut seller….and all long gone peasnut sellers.
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28th June 2019 at 3:23 pm
We have one of these shirts Clik and it is beautiful.
Great poem for a boss shirt.
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20th June 2019 at 2:37 pm
Lovely poem Rhys, and That Lone Ship looks a boss book.
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9th May 2019 at 12:59 pm
Great poem Clik – witty and memorable, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.
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9th May 2019 at 12:58 pm
Great poem Sharon, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.
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9th May 2019 at 12:54 pm
I really like this poem. So many great phrases: “striped and manicured”, “a crowd of heads go drooping”, “and maintain home advantage”, “when Mum blew for dinner”. Much appreciated! Thank you.
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7th May 2019 at 10:37 am
Such great words Ray. So evocative of that time of innocence Kepp on mate. More please. It will be under the Nostaglia section too.
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26th March 2019 at 10:16 am
As a child I drew crowds; row upon row,
fifteen thousand little circles for the fans,
such a great line…bewcause we all did…and golaposts nets and floodlights too…
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25th March 2019 at 11:39 am
Thanks for the love
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