All Your April TEAM Poems
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1 Your April Team Poems
2 Brazil ’14 World Cup Poems
YOUR APRIL TEAM POEMS
April TEAM name-checks for Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Barnsley, Blackpool, Brentford, Burnley, Charlton, Chelsea, Coventry, Crewe. Derby, Dulwich Hamlet, England, Forest Green, Fulham, Hull City, Leicester City, Liverpool, Luton Town, Man Utd, Millwall, Northampton, Norwich C, Notts County, PSG, Q.P.R, Reading, Rochdale, Scunthorpe, Sheff Utd, Stevenage, Sunderland, Torquay, Wigan, West Ham United, Wigan. Wingate & Finchley, Wolves and Yeovil,
April 2014
28 Apr Significant SundayMaureen Yeo
28 Apr High Price Vice S B Ingle
(Norwich C)
28 Apr .The Sacred Ace In Every Pilgrims Pack kevin raymond (Liverpool / Chelsea)
27 Apr Twin buses at Anfield
Emdad Rahman (Liverpool / Chelsea)
26 Apr Crumbs! S B Ingle
(Man U / Norwich C)
26 Apr Job done Alan Mckean (Man U / Norwich C)
23 Apr Phew! kevin raymond (Atletico Madrid / Chelsea))
22 Bitten Fingernails-Sweaty Brows
kevin halls (Coventry)
21 Return Alan McKean (Burnley )
21 Ashley buys Liverpool F.C
john oliver ( Newcastle/Liverpool )
21 Ritual
Eddie Gibbons (Liverpool )
21 Football Matters
Eddie Gibbons (Liverpool )
20 Sterling rocks Jarrold Stand
Emdad Rahman ( Norwich/ Man C )
20 Apr Make us Dream
P Maguire (Liverpool )
20 Brasil ’14
Mike McSweeney (Brazil/England )
20 Liverpool Rising
P Maguire ( Liverpool )
20 A Quiet (sic) Unbelievable Performance
kevin raymond (Chelsea/Sunderland) )
20 Communion of the Players
Gacina Bozidar (Real Madrid )
20 Love Restored P Maguire (Liverpool )
19 We Go Again P Maguire ( Liverpool )
19 What We Do Eddie Gibbons (Liverpool )
19 The Alaves Shirt Eddie Gibbons (Liverpool )
17 Buy Buy S B Ingle(Norwich C)
17 Luis Suarez P Maguire (Liverpool )
17 A Liverpool Love Story (2014)
P Maguire (Liverpool )
16 Apr “Shirt Off Your Back”
Dulwich Poet ( England)
15 Apr Parable of The Boy In The West
Luke Innes (Millwall)
14 Apr F.A.Cup Semi-Finals-Haiku
kevin halls ( Arsenal / Wigan / Hull City / Sheff Utd),
13 Apr 96 reasons for Reds title push
Emdad Rahman (Liverpool / Man City)
11 Apr Bishop’s Park haiku
Alex Saynor (Fulham)
11 Apr Matchday Tenderhooks Dulwich Poet
(Dulwich Hamlet/Wingate & Finchley)
09 Apr Plan C kevin Raymond
(Chelsea /PSG)
09 Apr An Illogical Passion Sam Kahn (Arsenal)
08 Apr It’s Raining Clappers S B Ingle (Norwich/WBA)
07 Apr Finishing Line Is In Sight
kevin halls (Liverpool/Leicester City/Burnley/Q.P.R/ Wigan/Reading /Derby/Yeovil/Barnsley/Charlton/Blackpool/
Millwall/Wolves/ Notts County/Stevenage/Crewe/Rochdale/
Scunthorpe/Torquay/Northampton Luton/Forest Green)
06 Apr Reds Iron out the creases Emdad Rahman
(West Ham / Liverpool)
06 Apr Team Of The Day – Haiku
jim dolbear (Man Utd )
05 Apr Promotion Fears Dulwich Poet
(Dulwich Hamlet)
01 Apr It Must Be April Fools Daykevin halls
(England)
01 Apr Those Fullwell End stairs
John Oliver (Sunderland)
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2 .BRAZIL 14 YOUR WORLD CUP POEMS
2014
Apr
21 Brasil 14 Mike McSweeney
(Brazil/England)
16 Shirt of Your Back Dulwich Poet
(England)
16 It Must Be April Fools Day
kevin halls (England)
March
21 Qatar’s World Cup haiku
Crispin Thomas (Qatar/England)
22 World Cup Dreaming
david osgerby (England)
2013
Nov 22 A Plea From Me, To Roy
kevin raymond (England)
17 Oct Kick Dad jokes Out of Football
Non Humphries
Oct 16 WC2014 : Qual : Yes!
World Cup Willie (England 4 Montenegro 1 / England 2 Poland )
16 On The Road to Rio
kevin halls (England)
16 Oct Poles and Worlds Apart “> Crispin Thomas
Oct 16 World Cup Willies.? (Haiku) jim dolbear (England)
15 Oct Bring on the Clown kevin halls
11 Oct A Heads Up To: Roy, Ray and Joe kevin raymond
09 Oct Who’d be A Keeper (Have a Hart)
Crispin Thomas
07 Oct Questions Questions Questions? kevin raymond
07 Oct The Wobbly Keeper kevin halls
Sep 12 WC2014: Qual: Trapdoor
World Cup Willie ( Ireland 1-Austria 2)
2012
Sep 22 WC2014 : Qual Round 3 & 4
World Cup Willie (England 5 – 0 San Marino// Poland 1 – 1)
(Ireland 1 – 6 Germany/Faroe Islands 1 – 4 Ireland )
Sep 10 WC2014 : Qual Round 1 :
World Cup Willie (Moldova 0 – 5 England+ Kazakhstan 1 – 2 Ireland)
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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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