And we’re off @ World Cup Russia~ June 2018
Great to see all your World Cup poems already. Check out the new archive sections ‘Your World Cup Poems’ and ‘Your World Cup Haiku’ in Crispin’s Corner. All your World Cup poems get saved there. A new World Cup poem features every day. . Please TAG YOUR POEMS ‘World Cup 2018’/‘Russia’/’England’ or whichever country/countries you include in your poem. They’re loaded and saved as tags for you to use. Try not to enter multiple poems on the same day.. Kindly spread them out to allow other some space. If you write poems on every game played on one day in the early rounds...(as quite a few did last time) ..can you kindly put those all in one poem on that day…so as not to over dominate the list of new poems on that day…(thanks)
LOOK HOW MANY POEMS AND HAIKU WE RECEIVED LAST TIME IN BRAZIL 2014 ON THE OLD SITE!!!!!
321 Individual World Cup Brazil 2014 POEMS~
Peter Goulding 78; Emdad Rahman 64; Trent Morris 57; Kevin Raymond 40;
World Cup Willie 25; Kevin Halls 9; Crispin Thomas 8; Henri Astier 7; David Sanderson 7; Graham Salter 5 ; E. Power 3; B.Bilston 3; ; Denys E Jones 2; Alex Saynor 2; Bozidar Gacina 3; Khadim Hussain 2; A.Hofler / J.Holland / B.KIrk ;Dachlan Cartwright / J .Cummin / Dulwich Poet / SB Ingle / M.McSweeney / D Osgerby / Gini P/ N.Humphries / D.Monaghan / H.Birtles / P.Tubb (All: 1)
329 BRAZIL 14 WORLD CUP HAIKU
CrispinThomas 119; Kevin Halls 59; Kevin Raymond 54; Trent Morris 39;
P.Garrett 16; E. Power 12; Jim Dolbear 8; Alex .Saynor 7; Emdad. Rahman 6; Alan McKean 4; Khadim Hussain 3; Peter .Goulding 1;Stuart Butler 1
Looking forward to your poems and haiku
All the best from Football Poets
Crispin, Clik The Mouse, Christian and Stuart Butler.
PS IF YOU WANT TO CHECK OUT THE FRONT PAGE OF THE OLD SITE AND THE POEMS DURING WORLD CUP BRAZIL JUNE 2014, You can FIND IT ARCHIVED in the British Library archive section UNDER June 2014 just click on the llink on the home page of the current site…keep on… Crispin/Chridtian/ Clik |The Nouse & Stuart Butler.
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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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28th July 2026 at 9:40 pm
Hi Denys. Thanks for your kind words. I could have mentioned Dixie Dean but decided not to.
Best wishes, mate
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26th July 2026 at 3:47 pm
Great knowledge of Everton history, Joe.
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23rd July 2026 at 6:54 pm
Hi Jason,
Sorry I forgot to congratulate you on your excellent poem as well.
Keep well
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23rd July 2026 at 6:43 pm
Hi Jason,
Thanks so much for your kind words about Kevin Keegan, a footballer of legendary status and deeply missed.
Best wishes
Joe
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23rd July 2026 at 12:01 pm
Thank you, Crispin. I will defo encorage my bunch to contribute and will of course clear it with staff room.
Many thanks
Jase
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22nd July 2026 at 6:48 pm
Great poem Jase.
You are a man of my own heart …
And great to hear that you your students poems from our site.
Keep on and more please
if ever some of your students write anything suitable for here and most importantly they give you permission to publish them, you can always do so under your name referencing their names and the school..and year.
Best Crispin
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22nd July 2026 at 10:29 am
I think this is best thing I have read so far about the legend. Thanks
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22nd July 2026 at 10:22 am
One of the greats, inspired my generation of school kids in the 80s
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23rd May 2026 at 3:35 pm
Hi Crispin,
Thanks for the featured poem for the Arsenal Premier League victory. I love that photo showing the Arsenal ladies and fans in full rattle and rosette mode. I’ve seen it before quite a few times and, I think, a bit iconic. I think it was before the Gunners victory against Liverpool in the 1950 FA Cup Final. Great photograph.
Thanks
Joe
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8th May 2026 at 4:21 pm
Thanks for that Joe. Yes it’s been some season we had a blip but came out of it and finished strong. A mate of mine supports West Ham here in Coventry and my next door neighbour is a Spurs supporter, and both are getting edgy ! I like the Championship though as it’s competitive and has some good teams, players, and fans. Anyway we are back in the top flight and who knows what will happen ?
Cheers. Kev.
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