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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
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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