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Poems by Clik The Mouse
- Toto, RIP
- Analeptic Athletic FC
- Splotch!
- What’s it all about, Alfie?
- Nameless shirts
- World Pi Day
- veneer
- The measure of our dreams
- Return of the Premier League season
- Windrush generation
- Patch of the Day
- fight disinformation
- Pelé R.I.P.
- GLT
- forgot password?
- Reid all about it!
- Gone, but not forgotten
- If not for you
- Coterminous: empty pitch, ardent mind
- Locking horns
- I never dreamt it could be like this…
- Transfer business
- Battle @ the Bridge
- Better than the real thing?
- Ossie
- Change Of Direction
- A new season approaches…
- Euro 2020 opener
- We want our cold nights in Stoke!
- MotD Queen
- Yarn Bomber
- wrong, wrong, wrong
- Traces of Gregory’s Girl
- Deus Maradona, 1960 – 2020
- Nobby Stiles, RIP
- The Walk
- a little birdie…
- Barracking Trump
- football forsaken
- Late evening walk, in these strange times
- Peter Bonetti, R.I.P.
- Busy as ever?
- Social Distancing
- Hot Press
- Parked Run
- From rec to cheque
- Martin Peters R.I.P.
- dream machine engages
- Bojo
- Bury FC RIP
- In off the Framework
- Moonwalkers FC
- Strawberries and dream / different strokes
- would choose / chews wood
- LGBTQIA+ 2019
- Smilestone
- Boss goss
- gone too soon
- A win on the rim (of Europe)
- Un-wanted hat-trick
- Glory be!
- wee Salty
- CFC, AFC, LFC, THFC
- Game of Beauty
- Mission Impossible – “with hope in your hearts!”
- To bawl, or not to bawl?
- Sala salute
- 97 souls, NYC
- Tommy Smith RIP
- Let rip
- Kepa the leper
- Gordon Banks R.I.P.
- New boots, old body
- august August haiku
- red or blue?
- Deadline Day Aug 2018
- 19/05/2018: A Hat-trick of Harry’s!
- Painting a poetic purview?
- Progeny FC
- stinger
- Gigi loves olives but not Oliver! (Bedlam at the Bernabau)
- Ray Wilkins RIP
- Pun ditto
- Anto Neo
- Bad Homework
- Blank.
- It’s a generational thing
- More tomorrows please!
- Nonpareil
- Nortei Nortey
- Fantasy Football – get in!
- The Greatest
- Still dreaming / How on earth?
- Sold a dummy
- Uprising
- CTE
- Word of the day
- King Oz
- Tea nagger
- A Dublin moment
- Load more
About This Site
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 Poems
joe morris
8th October 2024
Crispin Thomas
6th October 2024
joe morris
6th October 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
2nd October 2024
joe morris
2nd October 2024
Mike Bartram
30th September 2024
joe morris
26th September 2024
joe morris
19th September 2024
Clik The Mouse
18th September 2024
Clik The Mouse
18th September 2024
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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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