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Season 2019/2020 – Missing Presumed Lost
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There’s a Goose Loose aboot this Hoose
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It’s Not So Bad This Football Lark
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Givvus a Song
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Back!
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Can’t Explain this Feeling
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Manchester City 2 Norwich City 1
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Barry Joy – One of Our Own – NCFC
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2015 Play-Off Final Middlesbrough v Norwich
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Where the Heart is…
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Priceless: The Play Offs
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Play Off Places haiku
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Liverpool: Two Teams, One City
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World Cup at Christmas?
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Oh No!
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Spot the Ball Competition
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Not over Cup exit yet haiku
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3rd round haiku NCFC
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Loyalty and Limpets
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The Pink Un
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The Match
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James Alexander Gordon (Revisited) RIP
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What’s In a Kit?
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Welcome Back
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Coming Home
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Coming Soon…Coming Home?
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The Offside of Life
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High Price Vice
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Crumbs!
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Buy Buy
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It’s Raining Clappers…
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Two Ply Boots
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Going Like the Clappers
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Injury Time
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Villainy v Village Idiots
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Pardew needs ‘If’, Not Butts
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Name = Identity
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‘Keepers
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What Does Football Smell Like?
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Sunday Leagues Under the Sea
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Frivolity or Equality?
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James Alexander Gordon
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Albert
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Twenty Twelve
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Pen. Ultimate.
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The Club Shop
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It’s Coming Home (and Away)
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Stretcher by golly wow!*
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Quarters
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Anthem Jackets
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As Bold As
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Swedes Concede
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There’s Nothing Like BEING There
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Hungry For the Euros
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Mine’s A Half
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Anywhere Man
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Silly Season
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As It Stands
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I Heard The News Today – oh Roy
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Relegation Blues
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Champions League of Gentlemen
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Everybodys Talking About It
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Note to the FA
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Kinder Magic
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The Seventies, And Today
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The Coventry Comeback is on…
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Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts
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Twelve Points of Christmas
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Gary Speed, a human super hero
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Thou Shalt Not Back Pass
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They Stole Christmas!
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When Two Tribes Go To Score – RELAX!
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Giving the boots the boot
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Canaries Win Premier League 2011/2
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The Yellow Phase
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Back to Back: – To the Future
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Sticking My Neck Out
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Nostaalja
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Yellow – In Peril
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Legends
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What’s The Fuss?
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Ipswich Town – Don’t Go Down
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Subs and Submarines
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It’s Christmmmaaaassss!!!
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For Maggie – A Fair Deal
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Sinking with Armbands
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Bringing Back Memories
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Reality O’Heck
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It’s Friday and it’s not Crackerjack
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Two haiku: Losing / Alg 0 Eng 0
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We Are Ten
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We Don’t Want What We Think We Want
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Gifted
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Paulton Rovers – Get the Map!
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Dolphin – Friendly
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Outlaw the Draw
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Magpie Song for Canaries
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U’s Sorry Now
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A Quiet Start
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Mixed Up
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Mothers Day
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Sir Bobby Robson
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Summertime Blues, Reds, Black & Whites…
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One’s Team is In League One
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Down to Earth
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Top Scorer – Owen Goal
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Hillsborough: Twenty Years to Yesterday
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Greeting Pete: Carrow Road: Chez Wes
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Turning Point?
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Disappointment
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Give it a Shot, Gunn
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Too Much
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Titch in Time
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James Alexander Gordon
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Every Fixture Tells A Story
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Who Sits In Row Z?
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Oh Referee!
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Party Games
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Not Half!
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A Mass of Mascots
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No Room for… Haiku
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Sweet FA Cup
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Carrow Road – Home
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In A Fix
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I Can’t Stand Much More
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Error Terror
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Boots
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Empty
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All My Own Work
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Scottish Referees
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The Unthinkable
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Sweet Talking
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A British Summer (‘Ats Life)
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Gym Fixed It
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Axe Man
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It’s Coming Home
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Rescue Remedy
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Lowestoft Town FC
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Sum Up Your Season (haiku)
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Huckerbye
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Didn’t He Used To Be…?
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They Are Joking?
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Excruciating
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Ancient Europeans
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Cheese and…
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Billy: Bridging Time
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Relegation
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More Than Words
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Do You Remember…
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Here Is The Nooz…
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Mr Miss – penalty haiku
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Vision
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The Cheat Is On
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Why ‘Thumper’ Was Late for School
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Access Success
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Quartered – Barnsley v Chelsea
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(Almost) Top Rivals
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P for Effort
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Easy Like
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The Meaning…
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I Was There!
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Bobble Hats
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Best Man
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Strangers in Football Places
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Fly Me to The Moon (haiku)
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Fifty Years, Sixty Seconds
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Beat It! Saints v Bury
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It Was Only a Game
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You’re Seeing Things…
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Quiet Please
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Incompatible (haiku)
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Goals Galore
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Lost – for Phil O’Donnell
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Demanding
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Viking of The Lost Art
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Real Mad-kids
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Damp Squid* (haiku)
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Sea Defence? – ours didn’t see a thing
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Football is … (haiku)
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Wanted
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Train of Thought
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Going Concern
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Handing It To Them
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Paul Robinsons nightmare haiku
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Artificial Inspiration
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Terry – Towel In
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Loneliest Man in The World
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Past Caring
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Bellamy
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Goal drought haiku
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The Final Whistle
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It’s changed haiku
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Managing a haiku
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Spacious
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Slipped Disco
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Mr v Mrs
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Fit to Wear The (Replica) Shirt
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Guacamole Goal-ie
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Dave Striker
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England: Fan the Flames
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Eat Your Heart Out
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Nicely Doesn’t Do it
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Baby haiku
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Rhys Jones, Evertonian
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We Woz Robbed (Stiles)
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Tough As Old Bootees
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Manchester United – two haiku
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Big Sam/Little Sam – haiku
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The Crowd Cried Out For Less…
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Bridal Wave
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Special K
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Get It Off Your Chest
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Upside Down World
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Mighty Leeds Might Not
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You Should Have Seen It
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Curtain
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See You, Jimmy
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Gunner Gone
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Hope Over Experience haiku
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Clearly Not Good Enough
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Hope
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Jeepers Keepers
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Real Haiku
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Change
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Third Strip haiku
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No Need To Worry
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Summer
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Seven Year Pitch
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Saints Not Winners
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Doggone
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Not as Billed
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Nil by Mouth
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Small Talk
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Down On Our Luck
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Things To Do Today
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I Remember Alan Ball
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Every Inch Of The Way
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“There’s Only One ‘One'”
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Red, Not Read
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…’Til I die
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The Scarf
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It Ain’t Over, Till It’s Over (except for Norwich City)!
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Girl Talk
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Summer Of …No Footy
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Kit Mann
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You Put Your Left Leg In…
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Hot Potato
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Blued Away
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The Height Of Fashion
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Celery Banned? Mange Tout Brutus
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Wembley
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Hillsborough – Justice For the 96
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And Not Many People Know That…
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Lucky Strike
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Spot, The Bog
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Tanka – Chelsea-Tottenham replay
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Where Were Ya?
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Tickets Please – Prices Crisis Or Other Vices?
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The Goal Net
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Old Age – haiku
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Sofa, So Good
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Looted Town
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Craig Fleming
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Tactics Not Included
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Blue-Rinsed: Same old Story
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Heartless
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Scottish Invasion
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The Good, The Bad and the Dougie
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It’s Snow Joke, England
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Lost for Words – Munich 1958
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First Win Of The Year
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Name The Day
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Preview
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Beckham
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Draw the Line At A Replay
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The First Time: Tenth December 1977
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Viva Blackpool!
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Retro Hero
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Why Do We Do It?
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Come and Have A Go If You’ve Got £Five Million
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Wensum Albion FC – Calendar Boys – Counterfeit Classics
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Liverpool haiku
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Tamworth v Norwich – FA Cup Third Round 2007
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Jargon*
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Waterlogged Pitch
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Chelsea Held To A Draw
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Four Minute Warning
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Had-went Calendar
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Nil-Nil The Bitter Pill
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Christmas Truce 2006
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Long time Ago at Christmas
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Calendar Pearls
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Jack Anory
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Gran knitted this City…
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Too Dull and Back
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To Lose, To Wreck
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Throat Lozenges Like Stonehenge
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East Angling Derby – Ipswich v Norwich 2006-7
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Mike Newell – Played the Fool (And Lost 1:0)
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It’s A Mystery
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Cliché – Dare Say
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Management Misery
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No Pie, No Lie
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Eat, Think & Be Healthy
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Gimme Five
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Let Me Be – The Fantasy
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Flip Side Of Celebrations
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Ode to a Lost City
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Bob Le Pitch
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My Other Home
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Suds Law
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Not Waving, But Frowning
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The End is Nigel
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Three For All – Southend v Norwich
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Season of Hope
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Carving the Torquay
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Jest a Minute
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Postcard to the Players
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Whats Up at Wroxham FC?
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Cardiff 2002
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Rooney haiku
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Lost: Presumed Missed
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Brazil…But…
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Sick With Greed
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Getting Shirty
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England, My England
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New Formations
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Carling Cup 2006-7
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Yellow
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The Milk Cup
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What Coach?
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The Name of the Game
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Keano Says Goodbye
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Goalden Lay Eggs
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Johnny English
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Air Of Hope
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The Big Day – World Cup 2006
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Football is…
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Going, Green? Don’t Think So
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Defeated by the Truth
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Childrens TV
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Dear Roger McGough
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Wayne Cloud
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Steve Foley: (transformation is taking place slowly)
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Only the Bony
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Lehmanns Terms
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‘Boro Delight
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Nothing Worse…
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I’m Nigel – Flybe
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Just A Minute
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It Isn’t Easy Being Green
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Championship Highlights
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Joses Eleven
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Sunday League
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Living on Boro’d Time
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Vintage Sheringham
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Choices
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One Season is Hard to Swallow
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Forty Years Of Bert
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The Lost Boys
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Making A Fist Of It
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Never in the Hat
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Super Heroes Spectrum
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Unfinished Business – Where art thou Wembley?
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Warnockers and Detractors
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Chelsea Factors
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Video Evidence
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A Worthy Experiment
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Cup Tie
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Taking the Mick
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Man Made
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Following up Leads
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Big Boys
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After The Love Has Gone
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War Child
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Thorne In My Side
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Worthy Tactics
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Boo Hoos
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Points Of No Return
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We Love You Cupid We Do
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East Anglian Derby Day
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Come On You U’s
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Easy Like A Sunday Morning
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Now That You’re Gone
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Loyalty Card
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The Farce Is Always Greeno
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Same Old Story
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Perfect Timing
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If I Had A Hammer
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December Will Be Magic Again
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Norwich 0: Preston 3
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New Years Honours
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Poor Rich Men
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Best: unequalled, unrivalled, unsurpassed
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Losing Sleep…
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Premiership Manager
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Yes!
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Doom, Gloom and Rumours
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Excuses
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Ninety: In Instalments
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Dear NCFC Players
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Minus One
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Saturday Afternoons Alright For Football
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Tickets
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Keeping the Faithful
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Lose and Svens A Hot Potato
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Brighton v Norwich
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The Pretenders
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Frustration
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Sorry State of Affairs
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It’s So Cheap It’s Interest Free
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Seeking Sweet Victory
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Ipswich Nil: Norwich Won
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Official Mourning
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Happy Birthday Carrow Road
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It ASDA be Palace For MORRISON
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Not Much Fun at No 1
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Gloves Unkind
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Up For The Cup
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Striker Blow For Truth
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Reality Cheque
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Confidence Crisis – No Win Situation
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You Wensum*, You lose Some
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Home Banker is Robbed
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Every Cloud has a Summer Signing
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First Home Game Every Season
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New Season of Promise
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Ice Age
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Spot the Ball
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Chase The Dream
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Carrow Road For All, For Ever
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Fair Play
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nine haiku – or, as we say in Norfolk, hackoos
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Spray On Mud – for 4x4s and Back Fours
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Football Management
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The Cup that Kopped it – Dropped and Dented
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Sale of the Benchery
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Magic Carpet – Available In Red
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Who Wants To Be In The Premiership (We Do)
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One For The Groundsman
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Thank You For The Premiership
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Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 4
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Surrender Sunday – Six of the Worst
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Are We Downhearted? – Yes
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Yellow Pages
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Up On Our Luck?
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Wot Ya Got
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If – dedicated to Survival Sunday 2005
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Saints v Canaries
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Chelsea’s Big Day
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Frightening Fight for Top Flight
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Two For Joy
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The Dirty Dozen
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Nobody Likes Me, I Do Care
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All Stars
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‘Owls of Despair and Birds of Pray
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Shouldn’t Have Left Me Vest Orf
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Without Football …
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Without Football Poets …
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Sunshine After The Snow
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Shock Win For Canaries
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There’s a Hole In My Defence, Dear Henry
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Tenderfoot Ball
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Can We Have Our Ball Back?
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20/90 Vision
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We are the Norwich Barclay
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On The Ball City – the original and revised
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After Delia… there was Lofty…
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Locking the Stable Door After the Points are Boltons
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Getting Real
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The Ballboy
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Norwich 1: Chelsea: Won
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Losers Standing Tall
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In the Spirit of Fun
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Home Win
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Injured Pride
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Footballers Wedding, London
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Who Wants To Be A Goalkeeper
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In Between Haircuts
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Barclays Fans’ Spending Report 2004/5
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Football Can Damage Your Health (Seriously)
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After Eight – Norwich City v ‘Boro
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Our Transfer Windows Glass is Broken
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The Magic of the FA Cup
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New Year Resolutions
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Nut Cracker
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Robert Green
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At least we’re at Home on Boxing Day
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Subbuteo
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Snatched from the Drawers of Your Seat
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Spacehoppers – The Answer to Everything
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Our Physios A Giant
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Hit or Myth?
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Goldi-lacks and Who Cares?
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Memories of Youth – the Naked Truth
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‘Pool of Tears
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For Goodness Sake
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Red shirt, Number Six
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Not Just A Number
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Bottom Drawer
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Interval
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Note to the Kitman
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Hard Times
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Can I have my tea in a mug?
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CONCENTRATED EFFORT
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COMING UNSTUCK
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Living The Dream
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Latest Comments
13th November 2020 at 9:52 pm
I am interested in the tale about The
Boot Room and Shankley
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12th November 2020 at 11:21 am
Hi Sharon
Please see my private message re arecent use of one of your poems from Manchester cheers C
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9th October 2020 at 8:17 pm
Hi Daniel,
Good to see you are still writing about the ‘Tic. Hope all is good with you.
Best, Sharon
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4th October 2020 at 9:52 am
So true mate.
You’re certainly not alone in your thinking. I get incensed sometimes.
Aside from the endless and stillwith its -here once labelled Fergie Time moments ,we now have VAR with its far off decisions by supposed ‘neutrals’ .
So …the supposed influenced ‘integrity’ of refs and neutrals favouritism ?
You could tuck it away into some corner and call it yet another football conspiracy theory, (like analyzing and searching to find which teams refs follow and VAR assistant refs (if we knew ) but it still occurs too often for me.
It raises the question is there such a thing a a real neutral. Everyone who watches football definitely supports or has a soft spot for some club however tenuous..
BTW When I was 10 and the Munich Air Crash happened. i (and many at my school in Fulham) was a Chesea fan but took United on as my second lcub for a season through that awfdul time. Now FGR are my life and my team in the next village and i drum (when we get back) on the terrace at 72 with the young kids and scoff vegan pies and get bwind Dale’s green vision for the planet …
Go well Attila and stry safe with your good lady….
Best Crispin
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18th September 2020 at 5:39 pm
nice one sorting a pic to go with..off to a trial run with several hundfred masked fans v Bradgford at FGR tomorrow
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16th September 2020 at 5:51 pm
Sorted! Cheers. SJ
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6th September 2020 at 6:23 pm
Hi again
This message from Ken via the site.
Ken Storey
mail: kensart@talktalk.net
Message: Message for Sharon Jones. I hadn’t been able to contact you as your email seems to have lapsed and would like to know if you still want your Liverpool Christ painting. Let me know if you want it and when you can pick it up from me at 27 Mentmore Road L18 4PU. Hope you are well. Best wishes Ken Storey
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6th September 2020 at 6:22 pm
Hi Sharon-PLEASE CONFIRM RECEIVED
This request from Gavin via the site. Can you get back to him please. If you don’t want to do it let me know, I might have a go.
Name: Gavin Blackwell
Email: gavinleelee@hotmail.co.uk
Message: Hi,
I am looking to make contact with Sharon Jones to see if can or someone could write a poem from my article The Brutality of life of the football Physio?
Best Regards
Gavin Blackwell
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29th July 2020 at 9:26 pm
Hi Crispin,
I’ve only just seen your comment about a photo of the gates. I will dig one out.
I’ve still not been to The New Lawn but I do hope to get there one day.
Martyn
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29th July 2020 at 6:41 am
Woohoo….sentiment shared Denys.
I thought the huge No 3 on Chelsea’s new shirts strange enough.
Keep on mate.. C
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