‘This Season’+Poem Of The Week+KIO Workshops
DIARY
So..into September already and summer almost gone (what August?) All poems about THIS SEASON from the previous and current month will appear listed below throughout the season.. .keep them coming in. Send us your poems on the games you can or can’t get to .Your hopes, dreams, moans and predictions . Like an old ground , we are currently desperately trying to attract funding to sustain, improve and up-date our antiquated site . All volunatary remember. News as ever, of forthcoming workshops, and a few links. Go well! Crispin
CONTENTS
1.ON QUALITY AND GRAMMAR
2 POEM OF THE WEEK – AMIE
3 2006/2007 WORKSHOPS WITH CRISPIN/FOOTBALL POETS
4 INTERESTING LINKS
5 THIS SEASON POEMS AUG/SEPT 06-07
1. ON QUALITY ,GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE
.Without wishing to totally discourage new writing, we have to maintain certain standards. Please check spelling ,and puctuation before submitting and please keep it clean.The site is archived by The British Library remember and viewed by millions . The Editors
2. POEM OF THE WEEK
04 Sept Kick Racism out of Football Amie
Such simple words.. 6 weeks away from Kick It Out Action Week..
It’s not just players wearing shirts for a day….what are you doing?
For community ideas check out Kick It Out
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3. FORTHCOMING 2006 WORKSHOPS with Crispin
Oct 06 Black History Month / KICK IT OUT WEEK
4 BIRMINGHAM C Blue Zone Kick it Out Workshop
7 SHEFFIELD United Bramell Lane KIO Workshop +Gig (Evening)
9 OXFORD U Leanring Zone Kick it Out Workshop
12 NOTTS F Kick it Out Workshop
14 CHELSEA FC Kick it Out Workshop with Paul Canoville
17 FULHAM FC Kick It Out Workshop
18 CHELSEA FC with Paul Canoville
20 BRISTOL CITY Study Support Centre
26/27 WALES Prisons ‘Making A Difference/ Anti-Racism’ (+Ted)
2007
Feb
3/4 MORPETH King Edward V1 School.
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4. 2006 / 2007 FOOTBALL POETRY WORKSHOPS
We run and book Football Poetry Workshops all year round.
Recent sessions in schools have included :
Angmering, Ascot, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol,
Bishops Castle, Brockworth, Gloucester, Hull, London, Littledean, Morperth, Porto- Portugal, Soudley, Stroud , Trowbridge and even a workshop in Worksop.(Honest !)
Football Clubs visited include :
Charlton Athletic, Chelsea FC, Everton FC, Fulham FC,
Northampton Town, Queens Park Rangers, Stoke City &
West Ham Utd. For info on workshops contact
Crispin Thomas ctm@crispinthomas.orangehome.co.uk
or phone 01453 757376 & 07837 798463
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A FEW WORKSHOP LINKS
Click on link or poem to view then close page or hit Back button
WORLD CUP WORKSHOP BISHOPS CASTLE PHOTOS 10.6.06
Check out some pics from the day with students and Crispin.
EVERTON FC ‘ Making A Difference’ Workshop Review Crispin Thomas
Session at Everton FC Extra Time Study Support Centre
FOOTBALL STUFF Crispin Thomas
BBC Video Nation (Real Player)
Crispin Live at Forest Green Rovers with poem, Casio and a ball
5. ‘THIS SEASON’ POEMS- AUGUST/SEPT 06
09 Sep The Blues are down the Pub
Denys E. W. Jones
09 Sep The Best in the Nation Peter Goulding
09 Sep Liverpool woes? Emdad Rahman
09 Sep On Swapping Arsenal For Shrewsbury on e Bay! Crispin Thomas
08 Sep And We’re Looking For Respect! kevin raymond
06 Sep Player Power? kevin raymond
05 Sep Season of Hope S B Ingle
04 Sep One Game One ommunityCrispin Thomas
03 Sep The Agony and the Ecstasy Peter Goulding
03 Sep Shelbourne 0 Derry City 1 Peter Goulding
03 Sep Crewe V Huddersfield 2/9/06 Alan McKean
03 Sep Germany 1 Ireland 0 Peter Goulding
02 Sep Ireland For European Cup Glory Sandra Wallett
02 Sep What about the Highbury faithful? Emdad Rahman
01 Sep They’re Changing Sides At Arsenal and Chelsea Crispin Thomas
30 Aug A Match Made in..Sunderland mark merriman
29 Aug Eleven Ten on Penalties Peter Goulding
29 Aug A Keane Appointment! kevin raymond
29 Aug Boro v Portsmouth Haiku khadim Hussain
28 Aug Up The Villa! kevin raymond
28 Aug New Paint Number Ten
24 Aug It’s Boro Who Deserved Victory! kevin raymond
24 Aug Boro v Chelsea (23-08-2006) George Kirby
24 Aug Boro Haiku Khadim Hussain
24 Aug Industrial Archaeology: My Birthday Stuart Butler
21 Aug Reading v Boro (19-08-2006) George Kirby
20 Aug The Old Ground Looks The Same! kevin raymond
19 Aug Say it ain’t so Iain. Say it ain’t so. John J O’Connor
19 Aug Here We Go…..Again! kevin raymond
17 Aug Up There With The Feeling Crispin Thomas
17 Aug Shall I Compare Thee Crispin Thomas
16 Aug Title Race Khadim Hussain
15 Aug Predictions Christian Kantel
09 Aug Accy’s Back Alan McKean
27 Jul The Wensum Bridge Disaster William Ottosson McGonagall
26 Jul New Season Alan McKean
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 Comments
27th November 2024 at 5:55 am
‘You’re Supposed To Be At Home’ is an excellent and moving poem Denys.
You start off thinking it’s just about another oft-sung chant, one we personally heard a lot last season throughout our second relegation in a row here at Forest Green(FGR) ! I always love poems where you think they are saying one thing and then they suddenly pull you deeper to somewhere or something else else.
I’m currently helping in a local school for FGR in a voluntary capacity using football to help young students with reading. At an upcoming session we will tackle racism, just like we did in workshops at football schools and grounds when we first started this site 24 years ago. I’m gonna try and weave your poem into a session.
We’ve added it to the Anti- Racism/Kick It Out section under Crispin’s Corner.
Best C
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26th November 2024 at 1:59 pm
Great poem and great to see you back Wyn.
Don’t leave it so long next time my friend!
More please.
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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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