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MAY TEAM POEMS & HAIKUS 2013
May name- checks for Aston Villa , Benfica, Bolton,Carra, Chelsea, Coventry City, Crystal Palace England , Everton, Shirtgate, Fergie Farewell, Germany, Grass Roots, Liverpool, Man City ,Man U, Swindon Town, Tottenham, Wigan and Wolves.
29 May The Eagles have landed mark merriman
28 May One For The Back Seat Drivers kevin raymond
28 May Highfield Road-The Good Old Days
kevin halls
23 May “The Build Up” Dulwich Poet
22 May Oh No! It’s June 14 1970.Leon Mexico kevin raymond
22 May No loyalty Clik the mouse
21 May There’s No Place Like Home! kevin raymond
20 May I’ve Heard. kevin raymond
20 May The bad side of Football kevin halls
20 May Chelsea 2-1 Everton Borat Skorbard
19 May Carra: Made in Liverpool Emdad Rahman
18 May New Broom Required chris barber
17 May When….. kevin raymond
16 May Very Superstitious! kevin raymond
16 May Chelsea 2-1 Benfica Borat Skorbard
16 May Aston Villa 1-2 Chelsea Borat Skorbard
15 May Wake me up when August comes kevin halls
12 May Fergie Time mark merriman
12 May Martinezes Magic Men jim dolbear
12 May The Camberwell Carrot John J O’Connor
11 May Elementary, my dear Watson! Emdad Rahman
11 May Wiggin Alan McKean
10 May Time On His Hands.( Haiku ) jim dolbear
10 May “Grass Roots” Dulwich Poet
09 May Ah well Alan McKean
09 May Th’owd Mon Alan McKean
09 May Chelsea 2-2 Spurs Borat Skorbard
09 May For Sir Alferg. kevin raymond
08 May Time’s up for Fergie kevin halls
08 May The Final Dream gary challis
07 May To Be or Not To Be? kevin raymond
07 May I was there mark merriman
07 May Man Utd 0-1 Chelsea Borat Skorbard
05 May More Thrills and Spills Haiku kevin halls
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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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