Football Poets | Site-Wide Activity https://footballpoets.org/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:35:11 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 134ed858657283984dfd0c9ceb7e9fda Mike Bartram published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/kenny-dalgish-in-conversation-graeme-souness-tackles-podcast/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:37:53 +0100 I saw ‘The King’ in conversation today.
I listened intently to what he had to say.
He spoke with humour, with glint in eye.
As he reminisced of days, long gone by.

An iconic legend of the beautiful gam […]

]]> 8f0588661a5cc9f183951d4103e5031c joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/same-old-story-2/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:03:23 +0100 After all those
Vivid traumas and hardships
Of England blowing hot
And then cold, searching
For anything like World Cup
Redemption in the Americas
And the maple syrup dessert
Of Canada
West Ham, the […]

]]> e44430a6e17ee30bd1819fb958b4b528 Denys E. W. Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/set-piece-fc/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:10:39 +0100 Set Piece FC, Set Piece FC,
Aren’t they just a joy to see?
Score from corners or free kicks,
Or a well-struck penalty.
Goals from open play are rare,
But the Arsenal fans don’t care.
Three more points […]

]]> f8ccaaa5c378afba9c7d1def7ac47ce8 joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/gianni-infantino/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:44:01 +0100 FIFA presidents, hey
What a revolting stench
They leave in their wake
Deep in the foul sewers
Of their chronic corruption
Once again notoriety follows
Them around like
The dirtiest sheet
That can never be […]

]]> b7d023a21080fe724d4ca78e976e4404 Jason Prasad's profile was updated https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15680/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:17:08 +0100 0 7b9ab62131e7b962bcf1bf939408865d Phil Brennan published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/goodbye-to-castle-street/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:06:18 +0100 On the Friday before the gates swing wide,

and the new season’s first whistle calls,

the faithful gather in Marple Bridge,

at the Royal Scot’s familiar walls.

They come for those who graced the park,

p […]

]]> 9a89c2e33bbe140981a752e3a8cc5d18 joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/a-fortnight-to-go-to-the-new-season/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:42:48 +0100 Suddenly August dawns
On hundreds and thousands
Of freshly painted terraces
Across cantilevered stands
Football calls once again
A stirring in the bowels
Of stadiums in quiet solitude
At the moment
It’s a […]

]]> c7de5a2b3129f6297db5360ce89e13b4 Bozidar Gacina's profile was updated https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15677/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:48:16 +0100 0 3eebcd49bcb1df7a22f328690acc022e Phil Brennan published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/goodnight-vienna-2/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:38:16 +0100 Big lad, big heart, Stockport born and bred,
A United fan in scarlet red.
Though Edgeley Park still knew his face,
For County too, he’d find a place.

David Hazelhurst? That’s what it said.
But “Nu […]

]]> 103abcab30ea055669d3533fb01436a5 joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/60-years-ago-today/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:26:51 +0100 It was 60 years ago
To the day
Since England proudly
Occupied that iconic spot
At the centre of the universe
We embraced the World Cup
Clutched it to our bosom
Never ever forgotten
Finally the world was […]

]]> d5d7954618b45ebfefef2f25960fec76 Jason Prasad published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/thiefa-of-the-night/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:54:01 +0100 Free kick?
Take your pick.

A toenail ball?
No, molecular atomic small,
All fall.

Like a rush of sand,
Thiefa heists the land.

From head to toe and the ground beneath,
Every players’ feet,
Thiefa f […]

]]> 853bfd4d1cbf20c9cf4e8c8934c13008 joe morris commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/andy-burnham-2/#comment-7994 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:40:01 +0100 Hi Denys. Thanks for your kind words. I could have mentioned Dixie Dean but decided not to.

Best wishes, mate

]]> 98e04d3da09f74ee299cd7ad759340bf Bozidar Gacina's profile was updated https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15672/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:08:36 +0100 0 28fdbdd6c98fdcf209af706477c64105 Jason Prasad's profile was updated https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15671/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:53:41 +0100 0 21e0381a8c99ca4059913c2395133573 Denys E. W. Jones commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/andy-burnham-2/#comment-7993 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:47:09 +0100 Great knowledge of Everton history, Joe.

]]> 2de0495583360f8cd4f602623133de1a Denys E. W. Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/a-toffee-in-number-ten/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:40:14 +0100 They should not go together,
Football and politics.
These two are hostile elements,
Which really should not mix.

We’ve heard this sentiment expressed
Once, twice and yet again,
But look what we have […]

]]> 4545f110be11d53536751edf8dd9161f joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/andy-burnham-2/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:58:26 +0100 So Andy Burnham
You’ve nailed your
Colours to the mast
A lifelong Toffee
Proud Mancunian
But born in Liverpool
Of course
But the former
Mayor of Manchester
Was always an Evertonian
Everton through thick […]

]]> 3af502203d23e43ce3c0bfb12a079155 joe morris commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/king-kev/#comment-7991 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:54:12 +0100 Hi Jason,

Sorry I forgot to congratulate you on your excellent poem as well.

Keep well

Joe

]]> c8c66819a7f803ae9f10ced3ca21a525 joe morris commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/king-kev/#comment-7990 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:43:33 +0100 Hi Jason,

Thanks so much for your kind words about Kevin Keegan, a footballer of legendary status and deeply missed.

Best wishes

Joe

]]> f0831da4435e7ec87fe4ce1c68540177 Jason Prasad commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/boot/#comment-7989 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:01:18 +0100 Thank you, Crispin. I will defo encorage my bunch to contribute and will of course clear it with staff room.

Many thanks
Jase

]]> 1f4796fbd7454340f8d8474b466beda3 Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/boot/#comment-7988 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:48:18 +0100 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 […]

]]> 97305b7a5b9a20f1a960e3217dde6596 Jason Prasad published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/boot/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:59:45 +0100 Ball is indiscriminate about whose foot strikes its plastic.
Bits of dinosaur hand-stitched and sewn into a sphere.
Yet it spins atop the biggest ball that turns beneath.
Axis-tilted, centrifugally holding […]

]]> af8b9156db92a1904d6a279330fadded Jason Prasad's profile was updated https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15660/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:59:55 +0100 0 9fd1722585b296a8e67bd4cec4bb8607 Jason Prasad commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/king-kev/#comment-7987 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:29:20 +0100 I think this is best thing I have read so far about the legend. Thanks

]]> e424f83497be195be444d8b55a61368b Jason Prasad commented on a poem on Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/kevin-keegan-the-mighty-entertainer/#comment-7986 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:22:34 +0100 One of the greats, inspired my generation of school kids in the 80s

]]> be77b36a77ec7a88da9719510ac982f8 joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/king-kev/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0100 He came by train with dreams and vivid hope
Via Doncaster and Scunthorpe he must have thought
He could cope and did without a doubt
Nowt taken out
Kevin Keegan a fireball of energy, wit
And common sense
In […]

]]> d3e12ad5e2ef7676778aba2ad31d27ef Jason Prasad became a registered member https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15658/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:11:51 +0100 0 1f261e8639cfdbbe13faf57925232ef2 Phil Brennan published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/the-mirror-of-victory/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:32:32 +0100 On the pitch where glory’s freshly won,
Argentina basked beneath the sun.
Yet voices rose in wounded pride:
“Spain showed disrespect!” they loudly cried.
As ribbons fell and songs took flight,
their triumph […]

]]> 7731116788cf74f6fc81313b8fe905b7 Emdad Rahman published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/kevin-keegan-the-mighty-entertainer/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:08:29 +0100 Armthorpe dreams to Anfield’s flame
He carved unique fame
whirlwind with thunder boots
Laced and shook the game

Hamburg roared, England soared
That courage burned the same
A Ballon d’Or, two times ado […]

]]> 977b5481454a7b1fcb7edd7ecd0c851d Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/pioneer-and-superstar-kevin-keegan-rip/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:56:01 +0100 passion pride and style

Keegan’s pace and eye for goal

thrilled a million hearts

]]> 03142b9896238608460a0f2eb6b79d28 joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/the-final-word/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:56:07 +0100 And so the courts of
Law and footballing justice
Have seen fit
That Argentina are
Guilty as charged
Undoubtedly so
The judge and jury
Have come to the
Unanimous decision
That Messi and company
Behaved […]

]]> 0d0ca3dd4523e49076235db76a47e5ba joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/and-the-bronze-medal-goes-to/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:43:47 +0100 And finally Ladies and Gentlemen
The bronze medal goes
As the audience hold their breath
You’ll never believe it
Here’s what you could have won
England and it’s not the caravan
Designed for your council […]

]]> ce2d26e3b5a9024a945ae0ce2d675954 Graham Salter published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/the-game-of-broken-dreams/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:45:38 +0100 England and France
They came so near
But now their daydreams
Disappear
Eh bien, allons enfants
We’re playing for the bronze

Those dreams and hopes
Of the final show
Where are they now
Where DID t […]

]]> 34ee2cb7dd58c4bc95e32e69c360d8c0 Denys E. W. Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/sweet-home-inghilterra/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:34:14 +0100 Well I’ve lived here forty years plus,
People ask me now and then,
If at times I feel homesick,
Here is what I say to them:

“Sweet home Inghilterra,
Where the skies are not blue.
Sweet home I […]

]]> a9654e087831129062c1dab12c0a0661 gallygpne posted an update: A Poem For Ari In the beginning we kicked stones against […] https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15649/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:13:28 +0100 A Poem For Ari

In the beginning we kicked stones
against brick walls.
Drawing the man, we slide tackled
on broken glass.
Our stadium was a damp, cobbled alley
lit by street lamps.
Burnden Park rattled and roared with
every skilled pass.

I proudly wore the number 31 as
a badge of honour.
We were part of the awkward squad,
the school’s b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e4cc240f61f6b8098db6f01e51d23a7 kevin halls published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/its-not-coming-home-2/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:36:04 +0100 It’s not coming home
but was it really ever?
go out with a whimper
so it’s never never never.
It’s not coming home
now that’s a surprise,
took in the usual hype
believed all the lies.
It’s not coming home […]

]]> b1890de3dc9d4f34b92b831e058f2d4d joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/another-heartbreak/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:53:15 +0100 We have been this way before
Along the avenidas and avenues
Of our triumphant lives
But this is the same tired
Old script
Well scripted
The same balance sheets
The same charge sheets
Percentages
Narrow […]

]]> f5fcb3609afb96cc91d3b83136007394 Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/weve-been-here-before-again-again-again-wc26/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:09:01 +0100 how to summon this one up
where now to begin
minutes left to just hold on
moments from the win
not those dreaded penalties
not that fabled curse
not just Tuchel’s sit back plan
somehow this was worse
when […]

]]> 610bee6c1b6404c6dea4686bcf657a22 Graham Salter published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/an-englishman-prepares-for-the-semi-final/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:36:06 +0100 The mind says prepare for heartbreak
But the heart says “Hope”
David Batty David Beckham
The Azteca Slalom, The Hand of God
The mind urges caution
But the heart still says “Hope”
(Grainy footage from Rancagua […]

]]> 81430e804de4ea15bc74e0604ac50977 World Cup Willie published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/wc2026-sf-shhh-dont-mention-the/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:27:06 +0100 We may have ‘panned the squad’, that Tuchel built;
and we’ve never forgotten,
The jump over Shilts;
Nor Beckham’s twitchy leg;

You’re never in the ‘land of nod’, when its Albion vs Albiceleste;
Tho results, […]

]]> 10c791fb979c30c897a8a37aef80c318 Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/16-years-later/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:07:28 +0100 Here come Spain,
from Johannesburg 2010 to another World Cup dream
Their previous World Cup Final
was in Mandela’s South Africa

Now, sixteen years on
they return to the Final once more,
fondly remembering […]

]]> a9f905e05b2133246d49d6747155064b Graham Salter published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/football-with-tv-subtitles-for-the-deaf/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:58:23 +0100 Yes. It’s the Sensational Fee for World Cup, with forty-eight competing nations, three hosed countries, and a welcome break for re-monetization.

The England game, held up for an hour due to Sevilla Storms, s […]

]]> 64888942f7dda3cefbc27ec235160502 Denys E. W. Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/were-you-up-for-portillo/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:20:02 +0100 Were you up for Portillo?
No, I was sleeping soundly,
Head resting on my pillow.

Did you stay up for Mexico?
My answer once again is no,
For early next day had to work to go.

Then what about the […]

]]> ef75995a4563f4746950a4972e01c6a9 joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/yes-england-we-can-do-this-one/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:01:16 +0100 Yes once again
England find themselves
On the verge of immortality
Greatness signed, sealed
And delivered
Could we once again
Turn back the clock again
To those halcyon days
Of the Mini, Mary Quant,
Harold […]

]]> 2273e056d5f08b79b63aef3e1ac6e9ea World Cup Willie published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/pre-qf-haiku/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:19:26 +0100 It’s the hope that kills
Lets hope that there are more thrills
Than slips, trips or spills

]]> 228584a783ca602db709520289dcf414 Nagen Nagarur published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/the-penalty-shot/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:43:47 +0100 The culminating Final
Has reached the ultimate climax.
Is in shoot-out, with scores tied.
Only the last shot waiting – could
Decide the world champions.

Two alone, on the entire field,
That, a greatest […]

]]> 1970830c91a69410fa2325640783d385 Nagen Nagarur's profile was updated https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15635/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:32:39 +0100 0 953eb4024f9ccf59fa55ce3257acd576 Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/the-man-who-bedckhamed-everything-wc-26/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:50:38 +0100 the man who bent free kicks like spoons
the body and the hair
the man who took America
is now a billionaire
and stands for all that’s bland and sad 
the money and the bling
his profile grows where-ere he […]

]]> fd14311986a6ff5f5546289d3044951c Nagen Nagarur became a registered member https://footballpoets.org/activity/p/15633/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:40:03 +0100 0 b7bef913db854123096d271de343e478 joe morris published a poem on the site Football Poets https://footballpoets.org/poems/england-dear-england/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:41:09 +0100 England dear England
Our land of lazy, languid
Wind turbines
Past turbulent highways
And byways
Rushing and racing
Past hyperactive motorways
Chocolate box villages
Timeless as florins and groats
From many […]

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