Paul The Psychic Octopus RIP & October Matches
1 Paul The Psychic Octopus RIP
2 October Matches & Your Team Poems
3 September Games & Thoughts On Your Team Poems
4 August Games & Thoughts On Your Team Poems
1 Paul The Psychic Octopus RIP Poems
Welcvome to the silly and sad section. Paul-bearers needed (ouch). Paul The Psychic Octopus died peacefully in his sleep at his Sea Life home in Germany this month. He became an interrnational superstar after correctly predicting the winners of all the German matches in the World Cup 2010 and also predicting the winners of the Final .
31 Oct He Had Us On Tentaclesjim dolbear
30 Oct Octopus Haiku Stuart Butler
27 Oct Paul The Psychic Octopus Simon Sugar
26 Oct Paul the Octopus Emdad Rahman
26 Oct Paul The Psychic Octopus RIP Crispin Thomas
2. October Matches & Your Team Poems
Our monthly collection of poems specifically about your team
their games this month, your observations, progress or demise .This months offerings and thoughts in verse feature..
AFC Wimbledon, Arsenal, Blackburn , Blackpool, Chelsea, Cork City, Eindhoven, England, Everton, FC United, Feyenoord, Liverpool, Man Utd, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Notts County, Portsmouth, Real Madrid, Sligo Rovers, Shamrock Rovers & Swindon
31 Oct Maxi winner – Bolton 0-1 Liverpool
Emdad Rahman
30 Oct cup final tickets steve wickham
29 Oct Numbers Tomas De Faoite
29 Oct Two Black Managers Crispin Thomas
28 Oct Stick with us Chris John Oliver
27 Oct A World Away FC United/ AFC Wimbledon Crispin Thomas
24 Oct Anflied Gloom- Liverpool 2-1 Blackburn
Emdad Rahman
24 Oct The Tide Turns Lynne Paul
24 Oct New Blue dawn: Everton 2-0 Liverpool
New Blue dawn:Everton 2-0 Liverpool
Emdad Rahman
23 Oct It Stinks! mark merriman
23 Oct Negotiations Paul Garratt
22 Oct For Maggie – A Fair Deal S B Ingle
22 Oct Our First Season Darren O’Keeffe
21 Oct Wayne’s Whirled Clik the mouse
20 Oct Double figure record Maureen Yeo
13 Oct Same Old England Acrostic Crispin Thomas
12 Oct Lone Star Darren O’Keeffe
07 Oct Getting 3 Lions Off MY Chest
kevin halls
04 Oct Blackpool Rock the Anfield Iron The Bard o’ Burnley
04 Oct Whole World Is Orange kevin raymond
04 Oct Deja Vu? kevin raymond
04 Oct Questions Darren O’Keeffe
03 Oct Tangoed Emdad Rahman
03 Oct Bullied mark merriman
01 Oct Hens TeethDarren O’Keeffe
3 September 2010
Poems by YOU on…
Arsenal, Blackpool, Chelsea, Cork City, Coventry City, Genoa, Fiorentina, Liverpool, Man City, Middlesborough, Shelbourne, Southampton & Sunderland, Swindon.
28 Sep God Bless Darren O’Keeffe
28 Sep Not defeatist merely realistic
Peter Goulding
27 Sep Reds Bent:Liverpool 2-2 Sunderland
Emdad Rahman
27 Sep There’s Always Someone Worse Off
kevin raymond
24 Sep Bernie V Boyd Khadim Hussain
24 Sep The Viola in Yellow Denys E. W. Jones
23 Sep Lazy Sunday-Man Utd 3-2 Liverpool Emdad Rahman
23 Sep Reina Day-Birmingham City 0 Liverpool 0
Emdad Rahman
20 Sep The Best Laid Plans Of Mackem Men. kevin raymond
16 Sep Allah, the Compassionate Khadim Hussain
16 Sep Consistency mark merriman
13 Sep Is He (Mancini) Having A Laugh Or What? kevin raymond
10 Sep Mediocrity Darren O’Keeffe
02 Sep 25 Yrs Old Firm dominance
Emdad Rahman
02 Sep Black Cats! Khadim Hussain
01 Sep St.Mary Go Roundjim dolbear
4. August 2010
New season poems by YOU on…
Blackpool, Chelsea, Coventry,Liverpool, Middlesborough,
Newcastle,Norwich, Sheffield United & Swindon.
31 Aug Let The Show Begin pete marshall
31 Aug Strachan The Genius Khadim Hussain
29 Aug Torres Baggies 3 points-Liverpool 1-0 W Brom Emdad Rahman
26 Aug Big Guns Are Back Khadim Hussain
26 Aug 4 Musketeers Crispin Thomas
25 Aug Ah The Thrill Of It All kevin raymond
24 Aug You couldn’t make it up John
Oliver
24 Aug Sky Blues Sheikh Reds Emdad Rahman
23 Aug Seeing As Mine’s A Double kevin raymond
23 Aug The Joy of Six mark merriman
18 Aug to be beside the DW mark merriman
17 Aug what’s in store? John Oliver
16 Aug Gunners Pepe gift: Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal Emdad Rahman
16 Aug 17 Lines About Our Number10 Daniel Nice
15 Aug Wigan rocked by peerless Blackpool stuey
14 Aug Top of The Tower Alan McKean
12 Aug Curtain Raiser David Barker
11 Aug Year Of The Boro khadim Hussain
10 Aug It Wasn’t Your Fault Lads! kevin raymond
10 Aug Stay Loyal To Your Team kevin halls
09 Aug Immunity Shield Clik the Mouse
09 Aug Back With A Roar Crispin Thomas
08 Aug Great Expectations? mark merriman
08 Aug Reality O’Heck S B Ingle
07 Aug All Aboard John Oliver
06 Aug The Only Way! Khadim Hussain
6 Aug It’s Friday & It’s Crackerjack SB Ingle
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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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25th April 2024 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Joe,
you might like to write a poem yourself on the same subject…
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23rd April 2024 at 4:03 pm
Hi Denys
With you all the way on the abolition of FA Cup replays. What are they doing to the game?
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