Denys E. W. Jones
I was born in 1962 in England. In 1984 I moved to Genova, Italy, where I work as an English teacher. As you can see from my poems, I support Everton and Genoa. Occasionally I write poems on themes other than football and if you are curious, you can find them on Poemhunter.
Poems by Denys E. W. Jones
- A Lot of Hard Work
- Stuck at the Bottom with You
- Que Sera Sera
- Two Nations went to Germany
- Sed Non Satiata
- What’s it like to have no Poets?
- Twenty-Five Percent
- FA Cup Replays
- Updated Hokey Cokey
- The Lads in the Rain
- When Dominic Finds The Net
- The Hokey Cokey
- The Lesson
- Hats Off To The Hatters
- Bring On The Hatters
- All We Want For Christmas
- Points Deduction
- Three Teams Worse Than Us
- Basement Blues
- The Ecstasy and the Agony
- Ooh ah, Serie A!
- Fever
- Lateling Laaland
- Jailhouse Cup (Final)
- I Just Can’t Leave That Team Alone!
- The King
- My Coronation
- Will you come to De Ferrari? 2023
- Unthinkable
- The Power of the Tweet
- Ritual Slaughter
- Sean Dyche Limerick
- Sean D’s Blue and White Army
- Joint Bottom
- The Chasing Pack
- Genoa v Cittadella
- TGTGD
- A Thought
- Stake
- Thibaut Courtois
- Phew!
- Farewell to A
- Where There’s Life There’s Hope
- Frankie Lampard’s Blue and White Army
- The BBC hoped for an Upset
- When We Were Losing One-Nil
- Bent on Revenge
- Addio Carlo
- The Monkey
- Squeaky Bum Time
- Don’t Sell DCL
- For Club and Country
- Dies Vini Rosarumque
- Who are you, Cazoo?
- Postponed by Corona – Limerick
- Closed Doors
- Dead and Buried
- Nineteen Ninety-Five
- Sweet Success
- Ancelotti’s Blue and White Army
- Mr X’s Blue and White Army
- Blue and White Army
- With God on Their Side
- The Years Slip By
- Marco Silva’s Blue and White Army
- It Could Have Been Us
- England’s Number One
- Russian Campaign
- Big Sam Allardyce’ Blue and White Army
- The Prodigal Son
- Ronald Koeman’s Blue and White Army
- Football and Brexit
- Leicester City Champions
- Ticket Prices
- The Cost of England’s Exit
- England-Italia
- Rob Martinez’ Blue and White Army
- Thinking the Unthinkable
- Foot Fan Station
- The Nightmare is Over
- A or B?
- Just a Thought
- Behind Closed Doors
- Piermario Morosini
- Who are these People?
- Limited Resources
- A Thousand Fathers
- The Viola in Yellow
- In the Mists of Time
- The Seven Sorrows
- In your Pomp
- Don’t Go to the Match Today
- In the Land of the Yak
- When the Final Whistle blows
- England, where are you?
- The Bus Fare to Kirkby
- How will I survive?
- Fabio Capello’s Red & White Army
- When I saw that Ball go in
- Filled with Blue and White
- 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.
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Denys E. W. Jones
2nd October 2024
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12th September 2024
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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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