Football at Christmas + Philosophical Football Shirts
1 Philosophical Football Shirts
2 Your Christmas Football Poems 2008
2a Play Football Not War Poems 2000-2007 Selection
2b Christmas Football Poems Selection 2005-2007
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1. PHILOSOPHICAL FOOTBALL SHIRTS
A seasonal celebration of philosophy ..on football shirts. From Camus to Law. Check out the brand new Adrian Mitchell Poetry Football Shirt and more from our good friends at Philosophy Football. To visit their site click on :
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2. YOUR FOOTBALL & CHRISTMAS POEMS -2008
Time for some old and new Christmas football poems , limericks, sonnets , acrostics, haikus. ,thoughts and more from YOU please.
The annual chance to look back at the mad ,sad, the serious and bad . Christmases of yesterday and today.Your 08 poems wiill appear here……
24 Dec Merry Christmas, 2008 Clik the mouse
23 Dec What I Want For Christmas! kevin raymond
23 Dec An Ulterior Motive…Maybe kevin raymond
17 Dec The Rodborough Doggy Tree Basil the Westie
16 Dec Christmas With Basil Crispin
14 Dec Boxing Day Game Alan McKean
12 Dec sexism stadia & seasons Le Plume de Football
12 Dec Not Going To Auntie Flo’s kevin halls
10 Dec While the Shepherd’s watched John Oliver
02 Dec A Burnley Song for Christmas Vintage Claret
More please!
2a. PLAY FOOTBALL NOT WAR-CHRISTMAS POEMS
A selection from many moving contributions between 2000-2007
Play Football Not War Tony Lewis Jones
Xmas Trenches Crispin Thomas
Football In The Trenches Stuart Butler
Christmas In Iraq Crispin
Young Bertie Hislop John J O’Connor
In The Trenches Crispin
War & Christmas Stuart Butler
Ceasefire Christmas 1914 Haiku Clik The Mouse
The Christmas Truce 1914 Mark Thomas
Lions Coached By Donkeys Verdun
The World’s GreatestTommy & Fritz
One Christmas Crispin
2b CHRISTMAS POEMS 2005-2007
Just some of the many great Christmas Football Poem received between 2005 and 2007.
Dec 2007
14 Dec Christmas 1952. John Oliver
14 Dec So here it is Merry Christmas.. P Maguire
13 Dec Christmas Daze! Kevin Raymond
12 Dec A Boy’s Christmas Wish Jim Dolbear
12 Dec Hitching To A Game At Xmas Crispin Thomas
12 Dec Old Firm Christmas Daniel McDonagh
12 Dec A Celtic Christmas Daniel McDonagh
10 Dec It’s the Pantomine Season! Me
08 Dec A Christmas Wish Come True Peter Goulding
07 Dec Tackled by Christmas Paul H Tubb
Dec 2006
28 Dec Among These Hills At Christmas Crispin Thomas
28 Dec Christmas Past and Present Stuart Butler
28 Dec Nil-Nil The Bitter Pill SB Ingle
27 Dec Carrow Road, St Stephens Day kevin raymond
27 Dec Christmas Truce 2006 SB Ingle
27 Dec Long Time Ago at Christmas SB Ingle
25 Dec Letters to Santa Part 2 mark merriman
25 Dec Merry Christmas, Jose L D R
24 Dec Letters to Santa mark merriman
24 Dec A Mother’s Dilemma! kevin raymond
20 Dec Team Talk John Cox
15 Dec A Christmas Tale (2006) Mark Thomas
15 Dec Come Back Dad (Again) Stuart Butler
14 Dec On The Straw Behind The Goal John Oliver
13 Dec A Sad Christmas Tale Peter Goulding
13 Dec Whatever Next? Stuart Butler
Dec 2005
Christmas Anoraks Crispin
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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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