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
- 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
- Like the Shirts!
- Feed the Yak!
- We want a Sugar Daddy!
- Hammer and Tongs
- Ten Thousand Poems Shining
- We all are Evertonians
- The Fair Weather Supporter
- A Day to Celebrate
- We are Genoa!
- 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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kevin halls
18th March 2024
Richard Williams
18th March 2024
joe morris
18th March 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
17th March 2024
joe morris
17th March 2024
Clik The Mouse
14th March 2024
joe morris
14th March 2024
joe morris
10th March 2024
joe morris
6th March 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
3rd March 2024
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In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
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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