Poems by Mark Thomas
- Under the Atomium (Heysel)
- Hillsborough – Twenty Years On
- Maradona (Lang Syne)
- Misplaced Support
- Return of the King
- Keeper of Dreams
- Shankly Lives Forever
- Off To A Flyer …
- Slavery?
- Torres (Euro 2008)
- Drogba Goes To Moscow
- Green is the Colour
- Standing Together
- Stars Fade (Haiku)
- Walk On By
- Final Whistle
- Four Horsemen
- Farewell to Football
- Torero (Torres)
- The Book Signing
- Early Leavers
- Liverpool
- Rotation, Rotation, Rotation
- Johnny Todd
- Dougan
- Mysterious Ways
- Friendship (Freundschaft)
- Pictures of Madeleine
- Ball of Fire
- Portuguese Man of War
- A Game Too Far
- Final Place
- Written In The Stars
- Nou Camp
- Field of Dreams
- The Atmosphere, Electric …
- Sorry
- The First Time
- To Meet A Legend
- League Cup (Lament)
- A Christmas Tale (2006)
- Badges of Distinction
- Leaving of Liverpool (For Sydney)
- MacKenzie
- Immortality
- Nostradamus Predicts
- Paying The Penalty
- The FAmous Cup
- The Russian Pele
- The Morning After
- Digger
- Taboo Tattoo
- Jared
- Declan O’Doyle
- La Vecchia Signora
- Rome ’77
- Lost The Plot?
- Osgood
- Club v. Country
- Imagine
- Museum Pieces
- Pane in the Grass
- Sh … You Know Who
- We’re Still Waiting Too …
- Ray of Light
- Neville’s Advocate
- The Call Of The Toad
- The Evertonian
- Blessed
- Shanks
- Allez les Rouges
- To Dream, He Did Not Dare
- The Orange And The Green
- Finney
- He Was There …
- Football’s Top Table
- Pride of Donkey Town
- Opa’s Patella
- The Devil Saw Red
- Vladimir
- Dancing On The Ceiling
- Sliding Doors
- Istanbul
- Reflections
- So Long, My Dearest
- Fine Line
- Through the Storm
- Welcome to Hell
- John Thomson
- Just the Man
- Emlyn’s Song
- Green Grass of Home
- Montgomery of Sunderland
- King Kenny
- A Break with Tradition
- Nightmare
- One Cap Wonder
- Being Brazil
- Sixty Six
- Biggest and Best?
- Load more
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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.
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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20th September 2023 at 1:37 pm
Lovely stuff for one of the best.
We love him to death down at the Palace.
I’ll post my Roy poem a bit later. You’ve inspired me to finish it.
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19th September 2023 at 5:06 pm
I’d like to think some of my scarves might get passed down the generations, but can’t see some of the “quality merchandise” I have making much past my son’s generation. They’ll fall apart before he even has kids, I reckon!
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7th September 2023 at 2:43 pm
Very true Crispin. Thanks!
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3rd September 2023 at 6:55 pm
Play Up Pompey indeed Richard .
My first ever proper game when i was 10 was Chelsea 7-4 Pompey on Xmas morning 1959, Greavesie got 4.
First visited Fratton Park with Chelsea (2-2) and stood among loads of sailors back in the old Second Dvision early 60s . That’s when I first heard the Pompey Chimes..
Last visited in the mid 2000s to run a football poetry workshop on racism with local young students in the Study Centre you had then at the time.
Had a great chat with some of your fans when you came here to Forest Green last season…
best wishes
Crispin
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1st September 2023 at 7:17 pm
Cliché heaven or hell..we get it all
Welcome to Football Poets John
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28th August 2023 at 10:54 am
Thanks Crispin – noted re the boxer! Never know, perhaps we’ll get Forest Green in the cup… or Chelsea!
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27th August 2023 at 4:47 pm
Hey Rowan
Tough line up of opening fixtures but werlcome to the National League and to Football Poets.
I’ve often passed your ground but never actually been.
Had to remove the boxert poem , sorry ….only poems about football, though i did read your tenuous link!
best wishes
Crispin -Editor
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6th August 2023 at 3:46 pm
Don’t worry Apollo, I have examined the evidence on YouTube – he looks great, the real deal!
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7th July 2023 at 5:26 pm
Let’s Hope for your sake Denys, that he doesn’t turn out to be from La-la-Land!
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1st July 2023 at 6:33 pm
Lovely imagery in your Blyth poem Greg
C
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