Poems by mark merriman
- The Fosse Way
- Tinker Man
- Dutch Master
- Klopp v Cap
- My Ding – a – Ling
- Arsene’s Coat
- Come on you Royals!
- Going Underground
- The Good Old Days!
- Blueprint?
- Scapegoat
- That Guy Dickie
- United Untied
- And the Punchline is…
- Great Expectations
- GSS
- Football Widow
- How to Shackle Genius
- Away Days 2
- Moldova Mullered
- Away Days (1)
- All Over Already?
- Once I watched a match on CEEFAX
- The Eagles have landed
- Fergie Time
- I was there!
- Thrills and Spills
- Anti Football
- Antoine Van der Linden Syndrome
- Premiership Pipe Dream
- Phone-in Baloney
- No Escape from Alcaraz
- Boo Boys Return
- Paolo Pizza
- No Spring Chicken
- Paolo Pitches in
- High Five
- Ice Man Goeth
- Hung Over?
- Blackburn Moaners
- Referees – don’tcha just love ’em?
- Wonga
- 4-3
- Fitness First
- New Lawn Dawn
- Not Good Enough
- The boy Drogba
- End of an Era
- Give us a P
- Magpie Joy
- Wembley Way
- Wembley Woe
- Memories of Wembley
- Torres = Goal Machine
- You Need Hands
- Chalkie
- Comeback Kings
- Buzzin’
- Relegation – that’s what you need
- Early Thoughts
- This was Hart
- Gallic Flare
- Dishartened
- I Have a Beef
- Do Your Talking on the Pitch
- Creepy Crawley?
- Proud to Wear the Shirts
- Password ‘Greer’
- It Stinks!
- A Few More Wins (please)
- Bullied
- Nets
- Never Change That Feeling
- Consistency
- The Joy of Six
- ‘Oh I do like to be beside the DW’
- Great Expectations?
- Ineeyesta
- Penalties
- Blatter
- Cape of no Hope
- Green Fingered
- Full House
- Quicksand
- Pompey Crimes
- ‘and of Henry
- Fabio
- Being a Fan
- ‘Hapless’
- Independence Day
- Heroes
- Stratton Bank
- Proes?
- FA Cup Poems
- My Hero
- Off!
- The Cup that Cheers
- Humiliation?
- Money’s Too Tight
- Library
- Agony!
- ‘arry
- I’ve got the Managerial Blues
- Backpass
- Red Robbo
- The Wrong Man 2
- The Wrong Man
- The Rob Styles Files (2)
- Red Letter Day
- Going Global?
- Mad as a Hatter
- Standing room only?
- The Present
- Just one Capello
- RIP?
- England? Who are they?
- The Rob Styles Files
- On M-eg-son
- Stay of Execution?
- Magic Roundabout
- 7 Up!
- Roman Knows
- Leaving Early?
- Takeover?
- Sublime!
- Up!
- The Provider
- Havin’ a Bit of Trouble
- Echoes of Cheltenham
- Phil Dowd – An Apology
- Neville! Neville! Your team is a mess!
- My First Time (ish!)
- Megabecks
- Sheffield Steel
- Letters to Santa Part 2
- Letters to Santa
- Designer Injury
- Arsene Whinger
- Dear Jim!
- Ode to Dennis
- England’s Shame
- Curse of the Returning Striker
- Power Cut
- A Match Made in …………………..Sunderland
- Celebrations
- ZZ Strop
- ZZ Top
- A Nudge and a Wink
- Poll Axed!
- No Frills or Thrills
- Waiting!
- Bring Me Sunshine!
- Kop a Load of That!
- Rivals
- Big Phil Says No!
- Swindown
- Doomed!
- ‘Disappointing’
- Life Begins
- Dodgy Keeper!
- Fans’ Forums
- Leave a Message After the Tone
- Seven Up ?
- Remember Wembley
- Dying?
- Betting Shop Blues
- HTV – The One That likes to say “yes!”
- That Goal!
- I’m Keeping the Route Map in the Glove Compartment for now
- Jan the Man
- Cup Magic
- The Collector
- The Pundit
- Flick to Kick
- The Photograph
- Redknapped
- Simply the Best
- When Crouch scores
- Derby Delight
- F.A. Cup – part 2
- 1-0 to the Farcenal
- Old Boy at the Match
- Cup Draw
- Lucky Seven?
- Sack the Swede
- A Vision of the Future
- The Moneymen 2
- P.E. Teacher
- The Money Men
- Sunday League 2
- Sunday League 1
- Goal Hungry
- Holding On
- Last Minute Winner
- Job Application
- R.I.P. Cloughie
- The Comeback
- The Fans
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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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Latest Poems
joe morris
26th May 2022
Ian Martin
25th May 2022
Richard Tindall
24th May 2022
kevin halls
23rd May 2022
Crispin Thomas
22nd May 2022
joe morris
20th May 2022
Gacina Bozidar
20th May 2022
Denys E. W. Jones
20th May 2022
joe morris
16th May 2022
Denys E. W. Jones
15th May 2022
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Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
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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