Poems by Khadim Hussain
- Celebrations – Tanka
- I am a Boro fan
- Boro Haiku
- The Battle of Turf Moor
- For Boro Fans Friday is Fun Night! – Villanelle
- December of longest night
- The Derbyshire Ram!
- Summit of the Championship
- Return to the Top – Haiku
- Top of the Table – Tanka
- Waiting For the Flood Gates to Open – Villanelle
- Tis the Season to Watch Boro – Villanelle
- Hakuna Matata!
- Boro Fans Hold Your Head High With Pride – Villanelle
- Steeled we Stand!
- Boro’s Season
- Premiership Football
- At Wembley – List Poem
- Boro Supporter
- Boro Wembley – Haiku 2
- BORO WEMBLY – Haiku
- It’s over!
- Go Tell the Boro Supporters
- Wigan v Boro Haiku
- Riverside – Haiku
- Boro vs Bournemouth – Haiku
- Who Was Gibson’s Best Manager?
- Boro Haiku
- Point by Point
- Neymar – Haiku
- Argentina v Iran – Haiku
- Rumble in the Jungle – Haiku
- The rumble in the Jungle
- England v Italy Haiku
- Pure Magic
- New Season Dawns
- It’s That Time Of The Year
- Hull City Haiku
- Boro Vs Peterborough Haiku
- Not for Boro fans!
- Boro Till Death
- Boro Haiku
- Come Saturday Night
- Dragon Slayers
- Welsh Dragon at the Riverside
- At 1500
- Boro Supporters!
- In the swirling mist that engulfed the Riverside
- Siege of Cardiff City Stadium
- When Boro stormed to the top – Villanelle
- Before every match …
- Heroes
- Heroes of Stadium of Light
- Boro’s Not Afraid
- Best is yet to Come!
- Which shirt was Brian Clough wearing? – Villanelle
- The Quiet Man
- England’s Euro 2012 – villanelle
- On The Promotion Road
- March
- North East Cup Kings
- Middlesbrough vs Crystal Palace
- Thank God!
- We May Be Under-Dogs…
- Boro Always Bounces Back – Villanelle
- The F.A. Cup Third Round
- Happy New Year To All Boro Fans
- We Could Have Been At The Top!
- Day After Christmas
- Up the Boro!
- So Near Yet So Far
- Six Pointer
- Twelve Points for Christmas – (For all Boro fans)
- Sepp Blatter – Acrostic
- ‘I Am’ Poem
- St. James’ Park
- A year and a day ago – Triolet
- Remember
- Goals May Have Dried Up – VILLANELLE
- Should have been at the top
- Boro – A Ghazal
- Our cup run is over
- Carling Cup
- Marvin Emnes – Acrostic
- Middlesbrough F.C. – Acrostic
- Promised Land
- At Riverside
- ‘I Am’ (Bragging) Poem by a Boro Fan
- Mogga Will Not Smile – Villanelle
- Middlesbrough F.C. – An Acrostic
- It’s In Our Nature – Villanelle
- Epigram
- In Football Speak
- Start of Sammat Big?
- The Late Horror Show
- Not Good Enough!
- We’re a Striker Light!
- Jinni of the Ball
- Boro
- Open Letter to Mr. S. Gibson & Tony Mowbray
- Ghost of Christmas Past
- What is Boro’s best striking partnership?
- Young Boro Fans
- Fortress Riverside?
- Boro Tanka
- Goals! Goals!
- Bernie V Boyd
- Allah, the Compassionate, The Merciful
- Ice Man
- Black Cats!
- Strachan The Genius
- Big Guns Are Back
- Great Expectations?
- Year Of The Boro
- The Only Way!
- Orange or Red
- New Season
- Muslims are coming!
- England 2010 – First Match
- Not Me!
- Will Mexico spoil South Africa’s party?
- This Glorious June
- South Africa’s Party
- Boro Are Climbing!
- I was wrong! – Open letter to Steve Gibson
- Boro’s Play-off Dreams
- The Gaffer Needs Help!
- Gorden Strachan’s Team –
- Magnificent Seven
- Crawling there!
- Dream still alive (Apologies to Thin Lizzy)
- Miracle Needed!
- Season 09 / 10
- Twas the day after Christmas
- Letter to Santa
- So Who’s been Gibbo’s best boss?
- Application for Manager of Middlesbrough F.C.
- Homesick Boro in Need of Cure
- The Boo Boys are back!
- Is It Christmas Already?
- Middlesbrough F.C. – an Acrostic
- First month
- Middlesbrough Blues
- If It’s A Dream …
- Glanford Park – Clerihew
- The year of ‘The Boro’
- Boro and the Public Transport
- Deja Vu
- At the Liberty Stadium
- Aftab and I
- First day of the Season
- The First Match
- Leroy Is Answer To SOS
- The Last Day
- The Prayer
- Cheers Turned to Tears …
- After the wake
- Survival Sunday
- Lions stared
- Miracle
- The Great Escape!
- Now or Never – Haiku
- KEEP THE FAITH
- Depressed?
- Black hole or cloud nine?
- Southgate will not be sacked!
- Last straw!
- At Stoke – clerihew
- Southgate – Clerihew
- Knight in Black and White Armour Needed!
- Big Sam’s gone!
- Meri Team di ki gal ay!
- Where’s Yakubu?
- Ballay! Ballay!
- The Sly Fox – Haiku
- Steve Grabs a Bottle
- Mac the Fox
- Beckham’s Back – Haiku
- Boro v Portsmouth Haiku
- Boro Haiku 2
- Southgate Haiku
- Boro Haiku
- Beckham is dropped
- Title Race
- England v Germany Final Part 2
- Who will be the Scapegoat?
- England v Germany Final !
- Beckham, Pride of England
- Australia v Italy Haiku 2
- Ronaldo Haiku
- England v Ecuador
- Australia v Italy Haiku
- Vintage Beckham
- England v Ecuador Haiku
- Brazil v Japan Haiku
- King Ronaldo – Haiku
- England v Sweden – Haiku (version 2)
- England v Sweden – Haiku 2
- Destiny Beckons
- Three Points!
- England Hopes!
- England Expects!
- Greatest Footballer
- Haiku – Boro’s Cup
- Greatest Footballer
- Plymouth Argyle’s Best Friend
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I meant to write 4th round. Oops !
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I loved all Mishi’s poems!
His passion shone through so brightly.
Every club needs a Mishi.
God Rest His Soul.
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Welcome to Football Poets Tony. More please! Keep on.
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10th December 2019 at 11:47 pm
Hi Denys, it’s great to have another Toffee posting on Footy Poets. I haven’t contributed for some time, but if you click my name you’ll find some Everton poems going back several years.
Yes, now we’re all made up about the Chelsea result. And the return of the team spirit. And the two strikers formation.
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Thank you Al and Welcome to Football Poets..
Too often in the shadow and wake of Hillsborough, Bradford and Heysel, your powerful and emotive lines remind us of a tragic day when 66 died and many more were injured at Ibrox .
RIP
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4th November 2019 at 9:51 am
great three lines Alex…table football..says it all
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Kev….. the Rev, of that place that rhymes with Les Fridge!
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23rd September 2019 at 6:39 pm
Lewis Carroll or Andy Carroll?
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