World Cup Willie
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Poems by World Cup Willie
- WC 2022 Semi Finals
- WC 2022 QF4: Fine margins
- The jewel from Newell
- WC 2022: Arrest day (a rest day)
- WC 2022: Ode to el Capitano…
- WC2022: social injustice silenced
- WC2022: goal or gaol?
- WC2018 A to Z
- WC2018 – WC2022.. are we nearly there yet ?
- WC2018 Day 25 FINAL – haiku
- WC2018 Day 24 : 3rd/4th
- WC2018 Day 23 – reflection
- WC2018 Day 23 – out
- WC2018 Day 23 – Wish I Could Be Like…
- WC2018 Day 22 – haiku – Allez Les Blues!
- WC2018 Day 22 – haiku – free!!
- WC2018 Day 21 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 20 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 20 – Nervous about tomorrow!
- WC2018 Day 19 (post)
- WC2018 Day 19 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 19 (pre)
- WC2018 Day 18
- WC2018 Day 17
- WC2018 Day 16
- WC2018 Day 16.5 (Rest Day)
- WC2018 Day 15 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 14 – shockaiku
- WC2018 Day 13 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 12 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 11 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 10 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 9 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 8 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 7 – haiku
- WC2018 Day 6
- WC2018 Day 5
- WC2018 Day 4
- WC2018 Day 3
- WC2018 Day 2
- WC2018 Day -1 haiku
- WC2018 Day 1- Russkis Rack Up Five
- WC2018 Day 1 – Mish Mash Mix
- WC2014 : Epilogue
- WC2014 : Day 31
- WC2014 : Day 32 : The Final
- WC2014: Day 29 rest day
- WC2014: Day 30 rest day
- WC2014: Day 28
- WC2014: Day 27
- WC2014: Day 25 thru 26, rest days
- WC2014: Day 23, 24
- WC2014: Day 15 thru 22
- WC2014 : Day 14
- WC2014 : Day 7 thru 13
- WC2014 : Day 6
- WC2014 : Day 3
- WC2014 : Day 4
- WC2014 : Day 5
- WC2014 : Day 2
- WC2014 : Day 1
- WC2014 : Qual : Yes!
- WC2014: Qual: Trapdoor
- WC2014 : Qual round 3 & 4
- WC2014 : Qual round 1
- WC2014 : Where do they stop?
- The cynic in me
- Fare play
- WC2010 : reflections haiku
- WC2010 : Day 20 to the end
- WC2010 : Day 20
- WC2010 : Day 19
- WC2010 : Day 18
- WC2010 : Day 16
- WC2010 : Day 17
- WC2010 : Day 14
- WC2010 : Day 15
- WC2010 : Day 13 2nd Half
- WC2010 : Day 13 pre-match
- WC2010 : Day 13, Half Time
- WC2010 : Day 12
- WC2010 : Day 8
- WC2010 : Day 9
- WC2010 : Day 11
- WC2010 : Day 7
- WC2010 : Day 10
- WC2010 : Day 4
- WC2010 : Day 5
- WC2010 : Day 6
- WC2010 : Day 2
- WC2010 : Day 3
- WC2010 : Day 1
- WC 2010 : Discarded
- WC 2010:pre World Cup draw.S.Africa 2009
- The Hand of Lucifer
- WC 2006 : Day 30
- WC 2006 : Day 31
- WC 2006 : Day 29
- WC 2006 : Day 28
- WC 2006 : Day 27
- Load more
About This Site
Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.
Publish your football poems here and then discuss them with your team mates and fans. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. What a result!
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Latest Poems
Denys E. W. Jones
2nd October 2024
joe morris
2nd October 2024
Mike Bartram
30th September 2024
joe morris
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
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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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