Poems by kevin halls
- 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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7th August 2018 at 2:43 pm
Looking forward to welcoming Wolves to the King Power Stadium this season… where hopefully we will beat you! 😉 But truthfully welcome back to the top division! – Paul
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22nd July 2018 at 12:05 pm
Hi Crispin,
Many thanks for that. I’ve actually changed it back because I feel the more ridiculous it looks, the more Ogden Nash it is! My own personal choice, others may disagree. But I appreciate the thought. Cheers
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20th July 2018 at 6:49 am
Great poem Peter .I’ ve mucked about with the way it appears on the page if you don’t like it let me know.
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19th July 2018 at 5:19 pm
Nash’s genius?
How about the Pele of poets?!!! 😉
absolutely lovin’ it!
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19th July 2018 at 2:21 pm
Sorry everyone. Away on holidays and not very good at the computer stuff anyway.
I had thought I was commenting on Verse 2, Lines 3 and 4. The whole poem is done in rhyming couplets – I was merely commenting on the fact that the rhyme there / disappeared sticks out like a sore thumb!!
Nothing to do with black and white!
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15th July 2018 at 5:31 am
no sadly…it’s my good mate Fred Chance…Sharon..great live music pub…in our village..
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13th July 2018 at 9:04 pm
Big Yin! Is that Sir Billy Connolly far left on the main picture?
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13th July 2018 at 5:20 pm
i should say so!
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13th July 2018 at 4:33 pm
at least the waistcoat is coming home then? 😉
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11th July 2018 at 10:48 pm
is this being seen (wrongly i think) as a representation of the old minstrels show?
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