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eighteen years of verse
sixteen thousand five hundred
poems on football
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eighteen years of verse
sixteen thousand five hundred
poems on football
Where have all the poems come from? You all!
Another milestone was reached this week. John J O’Connor’s poem Where Have all the Great Captains Gone? marked the 16500th poem published here.
Eighteen years ago, we launched in June 2000 to tie in with Euro 2000.
We survived and grew and relaunched at last thanks to Christian Wach of the Spirit of Football, having contended with endless spam and a dilapidated old site on an antiquated digital platform for most of these years. The British Library highlighted us early on, as one of their first 1000 significant sites of interest and positivity to preserve. Likewise we’ve been preserving your words ever since.
We have had so many hundreds of poets deliver their work here. Many are still here on the new site even though you now have to join, log in and remember or save passwords (ouch!)
I can’t believe that wherever I’ve been, that I/we have checked this page for your poems every day since that day in 2000. Thank you again to Christian, Clik The Mouse, Stuart Butler , Parry Maguire , Dave Cockcroft and you all ….onward. Keep on.
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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!
Hi Crispin. Chris Sutton on the radio has gone for a Chelsea v Coventry final. As we know anything can happen in the Cup, and I reckon we can go to the final.
We’re still in with a chance of the play offs too, so lots to go for.
Hey Kev
Let the masses drool over their odds on City v Unted Final, but who knows how pressure can hit.
Cov and Chels will be rightly labelled as having no chance..but hey …stranger things have happened..
so Chelsea v Coventry…that’s the Final for us!
Best
C
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
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
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
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
Thanks Gacina, glad you liked it, and I have just posted a new one about our points deduction…
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.
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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