The Run-In Your Poems + Football Poetry Workshops
The Run-In Your Poems + Football Poetry Workshops
1 THE RUN IN- TITLES SURVIVAL & UPS DOWNS- POEMS
2 WORLD CUP / FOOTBALL POETRY Workshops+Dates 2010
3 INNER GOAL the poetry of football by Crispin Thomas
THE RUN IN – YOUR END OF SEASON POEMS
Survival? Going Up? Going Down? The Title or just middling it!
April poems from Rochdale to Coventry, Newcastle to Chelsea, Burnley to West Brom , Arsenal to Liverpool, Boro to Forest Green . West Ham to Wigan and Fulham to Coventry..More please…
07 May Just the who of us Clik the mouse
07 May The Votes Are In
Crispin Thomas
07 May One For Sorrow Part Five jim dolbear
03 May Seasonal Blues – Liverpool 0-2 Chelsea
Emdad Rahman
03 May O Ye An’ Me Of Little Faith! kevin raymond
27 Apr Going Up -Yes..Staying Up???? John Oliver
26 Apr Conference Houdinis Forest Fire
Crispin Thomas
20 Apr Boredom kevin halls
19 Apr Hammers Kopped – Liverpool 3-0 West Ham Emdad Rahman
18 Apr The End 09/10 non humphries
18 Apr We Dared To Dream Alan McKean
17 Apr Out-played, Out-muscled , Out-passed Bard Of Burnley
15 Apr Sitting on my own next season?
kevin halls
15 Apr A Shallow Victory Or What? kevin raymond
13 Apr Brum deal- Birmingham 0-0 Liverpool Emdad Rahman
13 Apr North London Derby Chris
Murray
11 Apr Chelsea Double Haiku 2 Tony Lewis-Jones
10 Apr Promotion Guaranteed Andrew Detheridge
07 Apr Yo-Yo Club Andrew Detheridge
06 Apr Bouncebackability John Oliver
29 Mar Title Challenge Over? non humphries
18 Mar Boro’s Play-off DreamsKhadim Hussain
2 WORLD CUP & FOOTBALL POETRY WORKSHOPS & DATES 2010
Hi – We stilll have gaps for World Cup & Football/Sport Poetry Workshops .Sessions are broadened to cover all sports to be all inclusive for students. We are now taking bookings for workshops from May onwards with sessions also still available for National Poetry Day in October . Contact Crispin Thomas- The Football Poets or phone 01453 757376 & 07837 798463
W=Workshops G=Gig
March ’10
1 HAMSTEAD Library (am)& GT.BARR Library(pm) (W)
2 CRADELY HEATH Library(am) ROUNDS GREEN Library(pm)(W)
April
29 SANDWELL School (W)
May ’10
13 HADLEIGH.Suffolk. Hadleigh High School. Reading Week, (W)
June ’10
19 RODBOROUGH World Cup Fete (G)
26 GLASTONBURY Festival Fluffy Rock Café. Afternoon. (G)
July ’10
1 FELTHAM Hill School Year 4 (W)
2 FELTHAM Hill School Year 5 (W)
SOME WORKSHOP LINKS
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‘FOOTBALL STUFF’ Crispin Thomas BBC Video Nation Poem / Rap with Casio and ball on the pitch at Forest Green Rovers FC.
EVERTON FC ‘ Making A Difference’ Workshop Review Crispin Thomas Session at Everton FC Extra Time Study Support Centre
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INNER GOAL on Amazon Crispin Thomas the poetry of football..a journey in rhyme (Illustrated/Paperback)
Published by Football Poets Books ISBN 9780955 737602 £8.09
“Poems in the street, the ground and the heart, poetry with balls!”
Michael Foreman
“One of the pioneers of football poetry. Who ate all the pioneers”?”
Attila The Stockbroker
BOOK NOTES
“A rhythmic feast for football lovers everywhere both young and old. From rattles and rosettes to women’s football and the trenches, fantasy salaries and racism to mobile phones for goalposts. Spanning fifty years of watching and ten years of writing , Inner Goal is an affectionate and perceptive nod to the People’s Game in verse. A long-overdue and illustrated hard-copy paperback debut from football’s maverick performance poet featuring 75 poems, 65 haikus and hand-drawn illustrations from the author.
SHOPS:
National Football Museum, Preston Tel 01772 908442
Stroud Bookshop, 23 High Street, Stroud 01453 756646
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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 Poems
Denys E. W. Jones
30th January 2023
joe morris
29th January 2023
Crispin Thomas
25th January 2023
joe morris
23rd January 2023
Denys E. W. Jones
23rd January 2023
joe morris
14th January 2023
joe morris
8th January 2023
kevin raymond
7th January 2023
joe morris
6th January 2023
Crispin Thomas
6th January 2023
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
5th December 2022 at 8:11 pm
Stuart, you are not alone, in your dichotomy of doubt
but without dissention
you stand alone
in hogging our attention!
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16th November 2022 at 11:04 am
[Football on soiled turf]
This is a wonderful phrase which I shall be using from now on!
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15th November 2022 at 3:54 pm
Well said Crispin. One of the reasons for The Ball 2022/23 is exactly this – that FIFA need to know. The Ball is essentially a petition to FIFA to honour their commitments to the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. They signed up; they should act. The Qatar tournament takes the World Cup in the opposite direction to that commitment. And 2026 looks like it’ll be even worse.
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8th November 2022 at 2:06 pm
Hi Guys
Re ‘Lets Boycott Qatar ‘ poem
You probably hate me banging on..and problably know (like me) that my/your not watching the World Cup in Qatar will make no difference.
Of course it won’t. That’s not the point.
OK someone might possibly eventually publish a minimal drop in terrestrial TV viewer numbers, but I fear that is unlikely.
But please above all, do go on writing poems about the World Cup, as/you we have always done. I hate to think a poem or two of mine might l make you feel bad about comenting on a game or country …or that I’ve put you all off about wanting to contribute.
So we’d love to hear from you and read your thoughts and observations, as ever on what’s going on.
Some of us have been here since Football Poets website birth/inception for the Euros 2000 ….
All my best wishes
Crispin
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18th October 2022 at 10:06 am
Shoot! (Something we’ve also been screaming in vain at our team all season !)
Great memories Joe . Before Shoot, it was Roy of the Rovers comic too, dropping through my letterbox.
Anxiously waiting each week to see if they survived in the mexcian jungle after an ambush..or a pre-season earthquake!
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3rd October 2022 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for the kind words Sharon. Yes, it was a shame with Billy Shako, but with five subs now being allowed, he might yet make it off the bench. Even if it’s just a cameo to close out a poem.
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2nd October 2022 at 1:49 pm
John, your new book is an absolute delight and more please. It’s a shame ‘Swapping Shirts With Shakespeare’ never made it off the bench, but quality football poets light up the writing fields like Roman candles. Go well.
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4th September 2022 at 12:42 pm
Great memories Greg. Took me right back.
Today I stand on a small terrace in the hills where I live watching Forest Green Rovers in L1, and keep up with Chelsea on highlights. It’s a far cry and a world away from those times when I lived as a child within walking distance of ‘The Bridge’ – just off the Ifield Road, which led to Fulham Road. The Blues were rubbish for so long, but we loved them and somehow we stayed in the old First Division for so many seasons. And of course we got to see Greavesie at his impudent best, scoring goals for fun. Mad unpredictable games where we’d score 4 and let in five.
The looming floodlights in the dark and mist on magic night games. The big games when the ground heaved.
I don’t think we ever realized how magical and incredible it was back then. The atmosphere and arriving there so early – like you said.. just to make sure you got in. Back when Bovril, tea and cake and roasted peanuts for sixpence a back were just about all on offer.
Good times.
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4th September 2022 at 12:37 pm
see above
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18th August 2022 at 10:20 am
To put it politely!
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