Poems by S B Ingle
- Season 2019/2020 – Missing Presumed Lost
- There’s a Goose Loose aboot this Hoose
- Summer Ball
- It’s Not So Bad This Football Lark
- Givvus a Song
- Back!
- Can’t Explain this Feeling
- Manchester City 2 Norwich City 1
- Barry Joy – One of Our Own – NCFC
- 2015 Play-Off Final Middlesbrough v Norwich
- Where the Heart is…
- Priceless: The Play Offs
- Play Off Places haiku
- Liverpool: Two Teams, One City
- World Cup at Christmas?
- Oh No!
- Spot the Ball Competition
- Not over Cup exit yet haiku
- 3rd round haiku NCFC
- Loyalty and Limpets
- The Pink Un
- The Match
- James Alexander Gordon (Revisited) RIP
- What’s In a Kit?
- Welcome Back
- Coming Home
- Coming Soon…Coming Home?
- The Offside of Life
- High Price Vice
- Crumbs!
- Buy Buy
- It’s Raining Clappers…
- Two Ply Boots
- Going Like the Clappers
- Injury Time
- Villainy v Village Idiots
- Pardew needs ‘If’, Not Butts
- Name = Identity
- ‘Keepers
- What Does Football Smell Like?
- Sunday Leagues Under the Sea
- Frivolity or Equality?
- James Alexander Gordon
- Albert
- Twenty Twelve
- Pen. Ultimate.
- The Club Shop
- It’s Coming Home (and Away)
- Stretcher by golly wow!*
- Quarters
- Anthem Jackets
- As Bold As
- Swedes Concede
- There’s Nothing Like BEING There
- Hungry For the Euros
- Mine’s A Half
- Anywhere Man
- Silly Season
- As It Stands
- I Heard The News Today – oh Roy
- Relegation Blues
- Champions League of Gentlemen
- Everybodys Talking About It
- Note to the FA
- Kinder Magic
- The Seventies, And Today
- The Coventry Comeback is on…
- Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts
- Twelve Points of Christmas
- Gary Speed, a human super hero
- Thou Shalt Not Back Pass
- They Stole Christmas!
- When Two Tribes Go To Score – RELAX!
- Giving the boots the boot
- Canaries Win Premier League 2011/2
- The Yellow Phase
- Back to Back: – To the Future
- Sticking My Neck Out
- Nostaalja
- Yellow – In Peril
- Legends
- What’s The Fuss?
- Ipswich Town – Don’t Go Down
- Subs and Submarines
- It’s Christmmmaaaassss!!!
- For Maggie – A Fair Deal
- Sinking with Armbands
- Bringing Back Memories
- Reality O’Heck
- It’s Friday and it’s not Crackerjack
- Two haiku: Losing / Alg 0 Eng 0
- We Are Ten
- We Don’t Want What We Think We Want
- Gifted
- Paulton Rovers – Get the Map!
- Dolphin – Friendly
- Outlaw the Draw
- Magpie Song for Canaries
- U’s Sorry Now
- A Quiet Start
- 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.
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Latest Comments
13th September 2024 at 6:14 pm
Welcome to Football Poets Beth
Great evocative poem Beth….
More please !
Haiku always welcome.
Hope we (FGR) get to play you again soon
Best
Crispin
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26th July 2024 at 6:25 pm
Great poem Mike Bartram. Eddie was a legend, affectionately known in Liverpool as, “the first hooligan.” Even the hoolies were well dressed in those days. The amazing thing was he was only 26 when that picture was taken. He’d played for Everton youth team and was well known to the players. He never got arrested. They threw him out and he climbed back in, just in time for Derek Temples winner.
I used the picture of him being tackled to the ground on the front cover of my book, “Once Upon a rhyme in Football.” It’s worth looking on youtube and finding the re-enactment of the Wembley scene. Frank Skinner and Baddiel went around to Eddies home in the 1990’s and acted it out on the green outside. It’s hilarious, especially all the effort they put in to get Eddie sober enough to shoot the scene.
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10th July 2024 at 6:07 pm
Hi Crispin,
I don’t know if you’ve see the picture in social media today…
a picture of a teenage Lionel Messi cradling a baby in Africa as part of a photoshoot…. the family had won a lottery to have their baby pictured with him….
the photographer has just revealed that the baby is actually in fact Lamine Yamal!!!!
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26th May 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi Denys…
Re Man City:
OK it was 20 years ago but Criag Wilson did write this and a few others on them back in 04/05.
BTW I’m more Forest Green Rover since 2014 (and Chelsea) these days . I drum and am a standing season ticket holder .
Best
Crispin
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29th April 2024 at 2:47 pm
Hi Denys,
Yes Richard Williams you’re a brilliant wordsmith, my friend. When I first saw your football poetry I thought it was the superb Guardian sports and music writer. I once had the honour of sitting next to Richard Williams while at the Independent on the sports desk. He writes about music and sport with immense knowledge and authority. I’ve read a couple of Richard’s books recently. Great writer rather like you Richard Williams the Pompey fan. Congratulations on promotion.
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28th April 2024 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Denys. Yes your replay poem was superb.
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26th April 2024 at 4:46 pm
Nice work, Joe. You were quick off the mark with that! Good one from Richard Williams too I see.
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25th April 2024 at 7:33 pm
Hi Denys,
Thanks mate. I’ll do it now.
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25th April 2024 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Joe,
you might like to write a poem yourself on the same subject…
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23rd April 2024 at 4:03 pm
Hi Denys
With you all the way on the abolition of FA Cup replays. What are they doing to the game?
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