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Euro 2024: FINAL: It’s not, you know
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Euro 2024: FINAL: pre-match nerves!
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Euro 2024: Semi-Final :-)
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Euro 2024: Sufferfest!
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Euro 2024, Q-F: Doom Loop
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Euro 2024: Round 1: Mbappé bopped
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Euro 2020: RSS heart
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Euro 2020: Wrong doorbell
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It’s at the front door……
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TFF Haiku
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Four Nil, would you Adam n Eve it!
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Tell me that you’ll open your eyes…..
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England 2 – 0 Germany, Last 16
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Euro 2020, 16th June 2021
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knotty
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Euro 2020 opener
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Why no poem?
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Euro 2016 XII: C’est fini!
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Euro 2016 XI: Corp speak
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Euro 2016 X
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Euro 2016 IX : Ireland out
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Euro 2016 VIII: Brexit II
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Euro 2016 VII: OMG
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Euro 2016 VI
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Euro 2016 V
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Euro 2016 III
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Euro 2016 IV
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Euro 2016 II
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Euro 2016 I: avance!
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Euro 2016 0: Who, who, who?
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Euro 2016 q10: perfect 10
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Euro 2016 q8: Georgia off our minds
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Euro 2016 q9: Low it, just Low it that we beat ’em!
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Euro 2012 XVII : the Final
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Euro 2012 XVI : SF1, SF2
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Euro 2012 XV : QF2 – QF4
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Euro 2012 XIV : QF1
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Euro 2012 XIII : rest day
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Euro 2012 XII : Sonnet : GLT again!
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Euro 2012 X : Best fans
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Euro 2012 XI : you crane
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Euro 2012 IX : capiche?
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Euro 2012 VIII : The Fields
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Euro 2012 VII : all credit to disparaging comments….
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Euro 2012 VI : haiku
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Euro 2012 V : ABCD route
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Euro 2012 IV : Half-time remediation
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Euro 2012 III : First up
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Euro 2012 II : www dot the Poles
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Euro 2012 I : Betrayed
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Euro 2008 X : who to support?
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Euro 2008 VIIII : QF2, QF3, QF4 : The Boxtrot
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Euro 2008 VIII : QF1 : Somnambulent symphony
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Euro 2008 VII : End of Group stages
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Euro 2008 VI : days 10 – 11
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Euro 2008 V : mixed bag : days 4 – 9
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Euro 2008 IV : Aggrievaderci
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Euro 2008 III : 2 close 2 call
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Euro 2008 II : it doesn’t add up
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Euro 2008 I : Pitching up short
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Euro 2005 III : Association Anonymous
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Euro 2005 II : England v Denmark – an attractive fixture
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Euro 2005 I : Remember the name Haiku
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 21 & 22
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 20
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 23 – The Final entry
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 19
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 14
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 15
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 16 thru Day 18
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 12
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 13
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 07
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 08
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 09
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 11
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 10
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 05 briefly
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 06
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 01 thru 03
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 04
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Euro 2004 Diary : Day 05 Bloomsday
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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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Denys E. W. Jones
2nd October 2024
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2nd October 2024
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30th September 2024
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26th September 2024
joe morris
19th September 2024
Clik The Mouse
18th September 2024
Clik The Mouse
18th September 2024
joe morris
16th September 2024
John Gilbert Ellis
12th September 2024
Beth Rogers
12th September 2024
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
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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