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?
- SLD
- Thirteen Ways to Score a Goal
- Wayne
- The Christmas Truce of 1914
- Hillsborough Memorial
- The Empty Seat
- Every Man’s Dream
- If I Was Any Good …
- Friday Night
- Wembley ’74
- Treasure Hunt
- Sir Bob
- The Magnificent Seven
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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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Latest Comments
27th January 2020 at 7:10 pm
The website is actually called Goal Nets and Stanchions.
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13th January 2020 at 4:27 pm
Please insert after line 15 “Where life was hard and occasionally brutal”
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10th January 2020 at 3:19 pm
I meant to write 4th round. Oops !
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23rd December 2019 at 3:07 pm
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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21st December 2019 at 10:24 am
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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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21st November 2019 at 10:11 am
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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16th October 2019 at 10:50 pm
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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