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Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Tue, 08 May 2018 15:35:58 +0100

Another day of destiny
Here comes deja vu
Is your glass half full or empty
Depends on your point of view.
Third consecutive play-off final
But the first at home
If you can really call it that
For to Tooting […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:54:25 +0100

Half a mile from the station
A delight of a ground
Half decent programme
Admission just five pound.
Out of my local area
Jumped on a train
Headed for Risborough Rangers
No I’m not insane!
A sun setting […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:23:32 +0100

I could have gone home after work
Lazily watched DVD’s and stayed in
But with Forest Hill Park playing Kent Football United
That really would have been a sin.
Forget that glorious English failure
In the […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:43:53 +0100

Nine times out of ten
A semi-final’s a ‘must win’
But pushing for play-offs with a fixture pile-up
Means losing won’t be a sin.
In the modern world the League’s more important
With going up the ultimate […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:41:26 +0100

There’s this one pillar in Catford
Holding up a road sign
When I first moved here it was tainted
Now I’m claiming it as mine.
Stuck on was a Clapton Ultra’s sticker
Like Catford’s where they […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:25:09 +0100

It’s third division football
During international week
My mate got me a comp for a Mons game
Which is all I really seek.
Not as in the freebie
But a new ground for a ‘tick’
Royal Albert Elisabeth Mons
Was […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:23:33 +0100

It was was a ‘blimey’ moment
As I stood up on that park bench
Losing our Football Club
Would be such an emotional wrench.
Not sure quite what to say
Almost unable to speak
A sea of expectant faces
With our […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:29:46 +0000

I got a slap on the wrist
Not hard but gentle and nice
Can I please reel in my poetry
I didn’t have to think twice.
Seems my backlog of poetry
Is clogging up the ‘Football Poets’ site
I really don’t want to […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:56:38 +0000

I couldn’t get excited
Try as hard as I might
My heart wasn’t in it
Yet it was a semi-final last night.
Perhaps it was the setting
First game ‘away’ from Champion Hill
Strangely even though it was at […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:55:33 +0000

It’s now the early hours
On the coaches heading home
No shame in losing to Macclesfield
As our performances have shown.
It’s been a huge Trophy run
Of which I didn’t dare dream
Despite being knocked out […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:52:03 +0000

I wasn’t that impressed
As we drove in at night
If I were forced to live in Pitsea
I’d have to run and take flight.
Looking as dreary as Canvey Island
Just without the seas
Welcome to the delights of […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:17:56 +0000

Imagine if you hated yours
I can’t say that’s me
But then I’m rather fortunate
I’ve got the choice of three.
There’s my proper real one
Parents are both brown bread
Don’t see my brother and sisters often
If […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:14:50 +0000

When you’re feeling rotten
‘Hair of the dog’ is the cure
But then what happens
When the Youth Team are just as poor?
Not based on performance
But chucking away a lead
It’s bad enough when it’s First Team
On […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:12:25 +0000

It’s a perk of being a club official
I’m on the Team Coach today
On the way down to Winchester City
Third Qualifying Round drawn away.
They may be a division below us
But form goes out the door
The cup’s a […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:57:06 +0000

People say if they cut me
I’d bleed Pink and Blue
I hate to disappoint
But it simply ain’t true.
I’m as ordinary as everyone else
My claret’s old fashioned red
I think it will just break my heart more
If my […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:55:25 +0000

I knew we were getting gentrified
But this is really too far
Smoked salmon sarnies on the bus
Talk about lah-di-dah!
She claims she’s ‘one of us’
Growing up on the Rockingham Estate
I’ll bet she’s never had […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:53:38 +0000

Tonight I nearly messed up
Almost got into a fluster
Saved by the best Cockney bull
That even I could muster.
Zwolle versus Venlo
The last game I was going to see
What could possibly go wrong
To a […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:17:23 +0000

Half an hour before kick-off
The seats are starting to fill
The lure of the Dutch Cup
That’s how I get my thrill.
I hope it’s a better game than last night
Not the best I’ve ever seen
But the opposition were […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:14:14 +0000

A pilgrimage I’ve been putting off
A return to the other DHFC…
For the ones called Den Haag
Are the cloggie team for me.
They’re not known as the Dutch Millwall for nothing
Their hard core hooligans are […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:11:28 +0000

I always get a programme
Yet I don’t understand the lingo
As soon as I see a seller
My head explodes going ‘Bingo’!
I only bought one
As they charge a euro and a half
Not that I collect stuff since I […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:58:06 +0000

I’m sat on a cheap bus
Going to FC Groningen v. AZ
The last day in my forties
Not long til I’m dead.
Hopefully that’s a while yet
It’s day like this I’ll miss
Thought they had gone forever
When I was […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:53:24 +0000

I’m at a club called Volendam
I’ve been here once before
The ground has completely changed
And I can’t recall the score.
It would have been very early Nineties
As booze was just getting a grip
Soon every […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:47:37 +0000

Football can be rubbish
Such a pile of cack
What a difference a week makes
The Dulwich boys are back!
From humiliation at home
Thrashed by an average Harrow Borough
To going on a long mid-weeker to […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:39:06 +0000

In the extremely unlikely circumstance
Where I was offered a gong
Would I choose to accept it
When selling out my principles is wrong?
I’m not from African stock
So no forebears turning in their grave
I […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:25:35 +0000

We’re away to AFC Sudbury
The first game is here
So why am I so miserable
Unable to raise a cheer?
That’s the problem with work
It pays for the games I go
But when I’m stuck in the library
The day drags […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:21:19 +0000

Perhaps it’s the fact they’re rubbish
That brings me back again
Millwall Lionesses playing Bristol City
Tonight here at The Den.
It’s a pleasant evening
Something to do after work
I’m just here for the […]

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Sat, 13 Aug 2016 13:08:39 +0100

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:00:00 +0100

It’s an unseasonal summer Sunday
Sat in a sunny Glasgow non-league ground
A very minor womens football game
With hardly any people around.
This is Benburb FC
Who had a proud old ground next door
Now on that plot […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:00:00 +0100

Right now I’m full of sadness
At the Adolf-Jager football ground
Not sure if this is my last visit
Soon it won’t be around.
A new home will be built
But new stadiums are never the same
Gone will be the ghosts that […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 23:00:00 +0100

I can’t believe it’s finally arrived
Cup Final day at last
Something I have long dreamed for
Coming round so fast.
Yet it’s got nothing to do with Dulwich Hamlet
Or Millwall in the play-offs tomorrow
It’s the […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 23:00:00 +0100

Two minutes left on the clock
The Hamburg Cup was almost ours
The Altona ‘Class of 2016’
Would go down in folklore as stars.
But then Norderstedt had that last chance
Found the back of the net
Deep down I knew it […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 23:00:00 +0100

Calming my nerves at half-time
That’s what poetry’s for
I really can’t believe it
One nil’s the current score.
With this be a famous giant-killing
I think I know the story…
Always the inevitable
Instead of a […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Sun, 22 May 2016 23:00:00 +0100

It’s funny how as you get older
Your dreams they start to fade
All those hopes of Wembley
They begin to shade.
Amateur Cup quarter final
Back in Seventy Four
Too young to understand how close we were
Almost one […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

They say back in the day in Bermondsey
A sack of spuds could wear a red rosette
And Labour would still be elected
It was such a safe bet.
Such blind loyalty is how I feel
About some of our ‘New-veau’ fans
Almost […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Almost there
It’s Christmas Eve
Looking forward to it
Even though I don’t believe.
Weather forecast’s ok
Football at the weekend
Groundhopping again.
First my Dulwich Hamlet on Saturday
For my holiday treat
Then […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Is that a bandwagon?
Can’t you hear the noise?
Time to pile down The New Den
We’re all lifelong Millwall boys.
In the Tinpot Paintpot area final
Just one round from Wembley Way
Dreaming of another game under the […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Some grounds are unlucky
We call it all a jinx
Just bad luck or not good enough
Despite what everyone thinks.
We tend to struggle at Bognor
That seems the rule of thumb
Which is why when you mention them
We come […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder where you were
When I was just a child
If you had been in existence
Would I have been so wild?
I was never good at football
But you would not have taken the mick
It’s all about respect and […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve all got strange quirky hobbies
Pray tell what is it you do?
Do you have a love of animals
And can’t resist a zoo.
Perhaps you’re nerdy old fashioned
Call yourself a trainspotter
Or keep on writing […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:00:00 +0100

It all seemed far too clinically clean
Newly built spick and span
But I didn’t come for the surroundings
I came to say goodbye to a great man.
Nearly three decades since you left London
But you never lost your […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:00:00 +0100

All the talk’s of Europe
A great night for the Paddies
But my magic moment tonight
Was watching our young laddies.
The glory of the FA Youth Cup
A competition where you can dream
Of seeing our boys at the Emirates […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:00:00 +0100

I claim to be a Luddite
New technology I’m loathe to try
But I’m not quite that old dinosaur
Where everything has passed me by.
I’ve got a mobile phone
Not one of them fancy computer things
But I’m ‘modern’ enough […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 23:00:00 +0100

A Monday at work’s just over
The whole week stretches ahead
Normal people go home for supper
Then thinking of their bed.
Perhaps a bit of telly
Corrie or Eastenders on the box
None of that will be for me
Out for […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:00:00 +0100

It’s a gorgeous Saturday morning
I’m off down to the coast
FA Cup at Whitehawk
You know the thing I hate most…
No hope or expectation
I’m sure we’re going to lose
At least unlike distant past defeats
I won’t […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:00:00 +0100

I’m proud to be an “Old Skool Dinosaur”
Does joking about “New-veau’s ” cause a split?
I can’t believe anyone would think that
No matter where you stand or sit.
But I’ve got to confess I hate them
Which you might […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:00:00 +0100

It’s a lovely Bank Holiday Monday
And it’s Hamburg Cup Final day
But which side will I be supporting
Do you really want me to say?
Truth is I don’t like either side
Last years semi still hurts from afar
Cheating […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:00:00 +0100

It’s well known we don’t trust politicians
Always lying about their facts
But if you’re from the terraces
This one stopped you in your tracks.
For this was a ‘schoolboy error’
That no fan should ever […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:00:00 +0100

So you’ve been on the telly
Excusing your drinking binge
From one alcoholic to another
I hope this doesn’t sound like a whinge.
But it’s not ok to relapse
To binge drink & say everything’s fine
Just because it’s […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:00:00 +0100

Today is Easter Monday
I’m sitting on a bus
There’s a girl on the next seat singing
I don’t want to make a fuss.
I wonder what she’d think of me
If I sang Dulwich Hamlet songs out loud
Rather than her […]

Dulwich Poet published a poem on the site Football Poets

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:00:00 +0100

It’s like going to a circus
Doing the same thing every week
You’re wonderfully ‘new-veau’
Sorry I can’t turn the other cheek.
I’m not saying we should boo
Or jump on the players’ back
But all our loyal chants must […]