Your Team In April 2011 Poems
Your Team Poems In April 2011 Poems
Our complete monthly collection of Your poems specifically about your team, managers, refs and games in April . Your observations, progress or demise in words with team-name checks for:
Arsenal, Birmingham City, Blackpool, Avondale United, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Cork City, Coventry City, Crumlin United, David Coleman at 85(!) Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesborough, Millwall, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Shelbourne, Stoke City, Swindon Town, Tonbridge, Torresgate, Tottenham Hotspur, Wenger, West Ham United and West Bromwich Albion
April 2011
30 Apr end of the season archie ‘football’ griffiths
29 Apr Middlesbrough F.C. Acrostic Khadim Hussain
27 Apr This was Hart mark merriman
26 Apr Summertime & Winning Ain’t Easy kevin raymond
26 Apr Quiet Remarkable. The Bard of Burnley
23 Apr Liverpool 5-0 Birmingham Emdad Rahman
22 Apr It’s In Our Nature – Villanelle Khadim Hussain
18 Apr Mr Wenger’s…. kevin raymond
18 Apr Marlon King kevin halls
18 Apr Gallic Flare mark merriman
18 Apr What A Life ! kevin halls
18 Apr Dishartened mark merriman
17 Apr it’s a great time terry oldham
17 Apr Blow the whistle Mr Webb Alan McKean
17 Apr Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 Emdad Rahman
13 Apr Epigram Khadim Hussain
12 Apr Sticking My Neck Out S B Ingle
12 Apr Away Win Darren O’Keeffe
12 Apr Good times Peter Goulding
11 Apr Liverpool 3-0 Man City Emdad Rahman
08 Apr Emotional rollercoaster Clik the mouse
08 Apr Marred match Apollo Gees
08 Apr Play-off Bryan Murphy
07 Apr Phew! What A Night kevin raymond
07 Apr When You Just Can’t Score Crispin Thomas
06 Apr Talk about letting down your team
Clik the mouse
06 Apr Zorba the Greek Darren O’Keeffe
05 Apr No Role Model kevin halls
05 Apr Phil`s Harmonic Dennis Swift
02 Apr West Brom 2-1 Liverpool Emdad Rahman
01 Apr Putting on a show Peter Goulding
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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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