Poems by kevin halls
- Soy of the Rovers
- From The Bantams To The Sky Blues
- The End Is In Sight
- Unromantic Football Fan
- Silver Haired Striker
- Play Up Sky Blues
- Twist and Shout
- Seven Days Ago
- Keep The Faith
- Get The Beer In
- Teenage Kicks
- Here We Go Again
- The Missing Waistcoat
- The Fan With The Flask
- The Sky Blues Are Back
- You Couldn’t Make It Up
- A Rollercoaster Ride
- Playing Home Games Away
- Looking Into My Crystal Ball
- Time Is Running Out
- But He Dives
- Spygate
- Kick It Out
- Where’s My Gnashers !
- Thank You Gareth Southgate
- Slab Head
- The Magic Waistcoat
- I’m Still Laughing !
- Rockin’ In Russia
- A World Cup Flutter – Haiku
- Selfies And A Mexican Wave
- It’ll End In Tears
- FACup Third Round-Haiku
- Plenty Of Oomph
- Just Go !
- What’s Up Doc ?
- Bloody Football
- Bring Back Rattles
- They Come And Go
- Let It Be
- Football Crazy
- Jamie Vardy
- Pretending To Be Greavsie
- The 26
- Super Foxes
- The Diver
- The Sky Blues- haiku
- SpecSavers-Haiku
- Doing It All For Jimmy Hill
- He Loves Himself-Haiku
- How Will They Manage ?
- In Mowbray We Trust
- A Day In The Life
- The Fixture List-Haiku
- She Fell Over –Haiku
- F.A.Cup Final
- Horrible Owners
- Old Football Grounds
- Greavsie
- Boring Premier League
- Squeaky Bum Time
- The Greedy Footballer-Haiku
- Another One Bites The Dust
- At The Match With Your Dad (1960’s)
- The Unromantic Football Fan
- The Magician-haiku
- Churchill the Football Manager
- F,A,Cup Fourth Round
- Why ?
- The Whinger
- Gardening Leave
- My Football Club-haiku
- A Sixties Lad’s Christmas List.
- Football in the Winter
- End of Season Predictions-Haiku
- Worcester Sauce-Haiku
- Crispin in the Library
- Coventry City Football Club
- The Day We Won The Cup
- What a Party !
- Football Poets
- Coventry Are Going Back Home !
- League Football Starts the Ball Rolling-haiku
- Football’s Clever Inventions
- Goodbye Brazil–haiku
- Marching For All Football Clubs-haiku
- Germany’s Name Already On Trophy
- Di Stefano-haiku
- World Cup Prediction-haiku
- Coventry City F.C.–haiku
- The Dutch Con Man-HAIKU
- Suarez at Glastonbury-haiku
- Suarez Must Shoulder the Blame-haiku
- The Good Things In The World Cup – haiku
- Suarez-The Ugly Side Of The World Cup.
- The Tedious Side Of The World Cup-Haiku
- England In The Pub
- We Can Be Champions
- Memories of 1966-Haiku
- Let’s Go Nuts in Brazil !
- The Careers Officer
- Ecstasy and Agony
- Fancy Dress–Haiku
- Can I Live Without My Club ?
- Bitten Fingernails and Sweaty Brows
- F.A.Cup Semi-Finals-Haiku
- The Football Poets–Haiku
- Finishing Line Is In Sight
- It Must Be April Fools Day
- 1960’s-The Golden Age of Football-Haiku
- Pull Yourself Together Man
- A Dying Football Club
- F.A.Cup Sixth Round–Haiku
- Stop Butting In Pardew–Haiku
- Football’s Room 101
- F.A.Cup Fifth Round–Haiku
- Filthy Lucre
- Football in Heaven
- Welcome Back S B Ingle
- Away Days–Haiku
- We Want To Go Home
- F.A.Cup Fourth Round-Haiku
- 999–This is an Emergency
- Great Players
- F.A.Cup Third Round Haiku
- The January Sales
- One Christmas Morning
- F A Cup Second Round – Haiku
- Bungs,Bribes,and Backhanders
- The Sky Blue Army
- Specsavers Referees
- The Mighty Magyars
- Football these Days
- F.A.Cup First Round–Haiku
- Steven Pressley
- Football and Beer
- On the road to Rio
- Bring on the Clown
- The Wobbly Keeper
- Coventry City Divided
- Ashley Young the Diver
- Transfer Deadline Day
- Losing the Passion
- Cobblers to Northampton
- The eve of a new Season
- On The March
- Hello is that the Samaritans ?
- Missing the Football and turning to Drink
- Highfield Road-The Good Old Days
- The bad side of Football
- Wake me up when August comes
- Time’s up for Fergie
- More Thrills and Spills Haiku
- End of season Haiku
- Fancy a bite to eat ?
- Praying for my club
- In The Courts
- Bring It Back
- Bring on the Robins
- Who ate all the Badger pies ?
- F.A.Cup Fifth Round–Haiku
- Two Faced
- Sky Blue Army
- Planet Beckham
- The magic of the F.A.Cup-Haiku
- Just For the Kicks-Haiku
- Football in the Snow-Haiku
- The Goal Celebration
- Super Supporters
- Christmas Haiku
- Sit Down or Stand Up ?
- A Bleak Midwinter for Coventry City F.C.
- The F.A.Cup Third Round-Haiku
- Football Fans
- Don’t Get Carried Away
- The Old Football Ground (haiku)
- Why Bother ?
- Up for the Cup ?
- Football’s gone mad
- Pampered Premier League Players (haikus)
- The half time team talk
- Back to the 60’s
- Life in League One
- Ban them for life
- Feeling So Guilty
- Crispin’s on top of the World
- Job Vacancy: Football Manager
- Another one bites the dust
- Football is one big family
- The Football Pitch
- New Season Haikus
- Olympic Football
- Olympian
- The Olympics come to Coventry
- Football the number One Sport
- The Friendlies
- Football Poets
- Not Waving but Drowning
- Please stop the Mexican Wave
- Enjoyed the Euros
- Fed up with Beckham
- England pay the penalty – 5 haikus
- Haiku Euro dislikes
- England shouldn’t fear the Italians
- Some Euro Haiku’s
- The pub or home ?
- Enjoying the Euros
- The Three Lions go as underdogs
- The writing is on the Wall
- What does that feel like ?
- The toughest job in Football ?
- LEGENDS
- Can the Tangerines start dreaming again ?
- Poor old Roy Hodgson
- Guess who’s coming to Coventry ?
- There’s always next season
- Pull yourself together Man !
- Walking under ladders again
- We’ll be playing Forest Green one day
- Looking through old Scrapbooks and Annuals
- It’s a funny old game alright
- Please spare us a thought
- Football Poets has to survive
- Messi is a genius
- Fed up of being patriotic
- I must be a real man cos I love Football
- On the road again
- Our fans are the best !
- Bye Bye Fabio
- Loving the Snow
- The surly footballer
- At the bottom but still fighting
- The Old Boys are Back In Town !
- You couldn’t make it up
- Dumped out the Cup
- The F.A.Cup
- Grey skies turning Sky Blue
- To all the football poets-Happy New Year.
- All I want for Christmas
- The thrill of the Boxing Day match
- The thick skinned manager
- Gary Speed R.I.P.
- Losing my marbles
- The long suffering supporter
- Away fans have all the fun
- What makes a proper Football fan ?
- I want to be as chirpy as a Canary
- My club is making me ill
- You couldn’t make it up
- Fifty years of Football
- Club or your Country ?
- That’s why we love the game !
- WHERE’S THE BALL GONE ?
- In the pub watching the game
- Proud to be a Coventry fan
- The smells of Football
- Sorry Emily !
- Football Stewards
- Football is just like life
- Jimmy Hill
- The penalty taker
- Nice one Paola di Canio
- My very first football match
- Not long to go
- England just aint good enough
- There’s no loyalty anymore
- We’re all so tired as well.
- Saturdays aren’t the same without football
- Showing my true colours
- Final day Jitters
- The F.A.Cup Final
- Our season is over
- The real damned United
- What A Life !
- Marlon King
- No Role Model
- Let’s talk Football
- The Away Game
- No Experience Required
- The Woe Of Being A Coventry City Fan
- It Will Be Netball Next
- Doesn’t Tofu Play For Brazil?
- A Valentine Confession
- Sky Blue Fever
- One Hundred Today
- A Haiku Nightmare
- An Apology To Miss Ogyny
- Why do you love football ?
- The Lion of Vienna
- A Football Fan
- She just doesn’t understand
- Boxing Day and New Year Haikus
- Christmas Wish List
- Those Were The Days
- Swapping Garrincha for Dukla Prague
- There Every Home Game
- Bootprints (Adapted from Footprints In The Sand)
- Getting Three Lions Off MY Chest
- The Unsung Heroes Of Football
- Getting Things Off My Chest Part Two
- Getting Things Off My Chest
- Football Mascots
- Stay Loyal To Your Team This Season
- Back To Reality
- Mollycoddled Poseurs
- Three Lions You Must Be Joking !
- Saint George would be cross
- The Vuvuzela
- Lions not pussycats
- A HEALTHY GUIDE FOR THE WORLD CUP
- Watching The World Cup In The Pub
- Ten More Years
- Holloway Has Made Blackpool Rock
- Some People Are On The Pitch
- Need A Saviour Not A Manager
- Boredom
- Sitting on my own next season ?
- Mr Chairman, can we buy Messi ?
- Crisis What Crisis?
- The Fickleness Of A Football Fan
- Good old Scrapbooks
- GREAVSIE
- Iron Man
- Hats, Scarves and a Hip Flask
- A Football Fan’s New Year Resolutions
- Football and Music
- Dear Santa/Wish List
- Christmas Haikus
- Crispin’s on the road with the Rovers.
- They’ve ruined the Cup draw.
- Bring Back The Guillotine
- Cheats Never Prosper, Do They?
- Minnows turning into Sharks
- I Felt Like George Best
- From Skegness to Honolulu
- Ronaldo the Aardvark
- The Beatles, Mods, Rockers & Football.
- The Season So Far
- GIVE IT A REST !
- A Day At The Seaside
- A Football Fan
- Football Speaks And What It Means
- Real Fans Stay The Course
- Live On Sky.
- Sir Bobby
- Discarded Lines From Famous Poems
- The New Fixture List
- The Scream
- Pre-Season Haikus
- Direct Debit
- In My Local Pub
- A Tough Place To Be
- Attila the Hun
- Staying Up Or Going Down?
- Football Addiction
- On Matchdays
- In My Day
- WHAT A GOAL !
- Back To The Bread and Butter
- It’s A Funny Old Game
- Look at the state of you !
- We’re Still In the Cup.
- From Anfield To Zidane
- Famous Faces In The Crowd
- David Speedie Hero & Villain
- The Underdog Having It’s Day
- The Road to Wembley
- Not Going To Auntie Flo’s
- Keep It In Room 101
- Third Round Haikus.
- The Blue Brazil
- FOOTBALL MOVIES TOP 20.
- The Sugar Busby Babes
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Between The Sticks
- Fans Are Fickle
- One of those haikus.
- Another one of those Haikus.
- Don’t get me started !
- I MUST STOP EATING CHEESE
- IS THE BUBBLE ABOUT TO BURST ?
- One Hundred And Twenty Five Years
- From the Bantams to the Sky Blues
- IT’S LIKE MARMITE.
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Latest Comments
27th April 2022 at 10:01 pm
Many thanks for featuring my poem. It’s been one hell of a journey but for all the bad times I’m still here supporting my home town club. Play Up Sky Blues !
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27th March 2022 at 11:36 am
Re: first verse of ‘My dad’ by Joe Morris..
Great words Joe…Moving.
It also reminds me, of all the people that I’ve been with in my life that just didn’t get football at all, full stop. So basically you never mentioned it, unless you enjoyed dumbfounded stares or extensive yawns! .
People who I talked with at length , often on their level, about loads of other stuff we both loved and like you basically everything but football!
This coincdentally included my strange dad : David Thomas : a brillant bohemian beatnik CND and Peace loving artist. He was someone who, being a very young writer and artist myself , with whom I could have had and shared so much stuff in common, but who I only finally met when I was 15.
As a result, and with the over-riding presence at atmosphere of his new partner and new step-son, I only actually got to see him intermittently very briefly for around 20 years, before he passed on..
Your poem also reminds me of John Lennon’s words from the song ‘Julia’:
Half of what i say is meaningless,
but i say it just to reach you..”
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26th March 2022 at 7:04 pm
Haha, thanks Crispin, I hope you can at least see your pie well enough to eat it!
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26th March 2022 at 6:58 pm
Great imagery Joe …but I struggeled to read it in the fog at first…
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24th March 2022 at 9:28 pm
Looks like FGR are going up as champs Crispin ? A season is the proverbial rollercoaster ride, up and down and twists and turns. As Greavsie said ” It’s a funny old game. ” We love it though. ⚽️
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24th March 2022 at 9:12 pm
Tell me about it Kev…!!!!!
Great emotion …just how we’re feeling here in leafy Glos!
best C
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22nd March 2022 at 10:18 am
…Fan is short for fanatic.
Empires fall. Football’s
nowhere near
as important
as life and death…..
Great words Greg..keep on …best… C
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28th February 2022 at 9:10 am
‘Roman holiday’ … good line, Joe. As a Chelsea fan, I can’t get my thoughts together on all this yet. I suppose it would be nice to write something before the Big One drops
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18th January 2022 at 9:21 am
“Are you – and this is the most important –
wearing your lucky pants?”
(from ‘Reasons Why You Lost’ by Joe Williams)
ALWAYS JOE!
But when it’s cold like tonight at FGR v Mansfield its the Lucky Long Johns..
Rave on Lucky Pants.
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11th January 2022 at 10:21 pm
It’s weird to see it happening, especially when you consider the price of tickets at PL games. So much action often happens in the final 5 mins!
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