Crispin Thomas
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 week, 6 days ago
searching for the words that can uncover
all the stuff you go through deep inside
expectation and anticipation
when you climb aboard to share the ride
this is how if feels to be rewarded
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 2 weeks ago
there’s no football in Ukraine this weekend
rivalries abandoned for a while
stadiums and streets lie torn and empty
no-one can be seen for mile on mile
women watching husbands go to battle
knowing not if […] -
Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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 […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Great imagery Joe …but I struggeled to read it in the fog at first…
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Tell me about it Kev…!!!!!
Great emotion …just how we’re feeling here in leafy Glos!
best C
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 months ago
…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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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago
the half time news is sad and long
the bombing and the war goes on
you start to feel it’s bad and wrong
to watch a football game
to see the skills of some new star
to carry on the way we are
while in a c […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 3 weeks ago
they’ve changed so much these days
and long gone so many now
those looming giant Martians
that towered over towns
throwing light and shapes
replaced by modern soulless equivalents
but still they beckon […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 4 weeks ago
between the pitch and concourse
the seconds ticking on
her dad was early in in the queue
to beat the half time throng
not one to miss a second
his daughter stood alone
the sound of clanking seats was […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 months, 1 week ago
never thought love could feel this way
never thought I’d hear it or ever see the day
sometimes the words aren’t deep enough to say
it’s just football love actuallyall of that stuff you just love to put m […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months ago
you run the ‘gamut’ Rovers
upon this hill so high
you never know if rain or snow
or fog will wander by
and so it was on nights like this
with no wish to be bitter
you know that if it had gone on
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 months ago
“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 […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 months, 1 week ago
More thoughts on those leaving before the end of the game…and dead on the final whistle…
What really cracks me up is that fans set from home really early and often arrive sometimes an hour ot two hours […]
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Crispin Thomas commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 months, 1 week ago
so true.Sharon..
.in our stand at Forest Green we don’t leave til the whole team and the manager come over.. but the exodus of those desperate to beat the traffic in the main stand is unbelievable..
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 2 weeks ago
I’d never heard of Forest Green
nor had I glimpsed The Lawn
when I first came to live round here
just as the Eighties dawned
I’d always loved a bigger club
at home in London town
but found myself upon thi […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months, 2 weeks ago
if Lily Parr could be here now
you wonder what she’d say
as Chelsea took on Arsenal
on Wembley’s pitch today
and did our Lily realise
the breakthrough women made
their influence upon the gam […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months, 2 weeks ago
all those years ago
FA banned the women’s game
as ‘unsuitable ‘ ~
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months, 3 weeks ago
there’s something happ’ning on the hill
belief is growing as it will
with far to go this time around
we keep our feet upon the ground
but confidence is there to see
in Rob and Richie’s Green Armyaway […]
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Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months, 4 weeks ago
It’s ‘off’ again now Conte has banished it at Spurs
and just a few days later the matter’s even worse
where Stevie G at Villa has brought the hammer down
and with it those old ketchup wars are back again i […] -
Crispin Thomas published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 months ago
how long until diversity
embraces inclusivity
how long until the day begins
when ev’ry coach is welcomed in
to poerate ibn ev’ry league
regardless of their race or creedno referees in our top league […]
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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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