All Your January TEAM Poems
More January name-checks for : Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham , Blackburn, Bolton, Bournemouth, Brighton, Bradford C, Bristol City, Cambridge U, Cardiff C, Chelsea, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham. Ipswich T, Leicester C, Liverpool, Man City, Man U, / Middlesborough, Newcastle Utd, Norwich City, Preston NE, Madrid, Southampton, Swansea, Tottenham H, West Ham , West Brom, AFC Wimbledon & Wolves.
27 Jan Stamp haiku Hy Koo
( Chelsea / Liverpool)
26 Jan F-A Cup 4th Round.(haikus) jim dolbear
( Chelsea / Bradford C; Man City / Middlesborough; Spurs / Leicester; Southampton/ C.Palace )
26 Jan F,A.Cup Fourth Round kevin halls
( Chelsea / Bradford C; ; Man City / Middlesborough; Birmingham / West Brom; Aston Villa / Bournemouth; Bristol C / West HamCambridge U / Man U; Brighton / Arsenal; Liverpool / Bolton; Blackburn / Swansea;)
24 Jan Much more Gacina Bozidar
( Real Madrid )
23 Jan No silver just gold Gary Oliver (Newcastle Utd)
22 Jan It’s over! Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough)
22 Jan Minnie and Mickey at the ground.(Haiku)
jim dolbear (Man Utd)
22 Jan The Only Living Tractor Boy in Wales
Simon Caplan (Ipswich Town / Cardiff C / Swansea)
22 Jan This Gooner Ain’t Flying Emirates Simon Caplan (Arsenal)
21 Jan Anus Mirallas ( We have to talk about Kevin ) ap staunton (Everton, )
21 Jan One of our own David Quinton(Wolves)
19 Jan Molineux Pride Dave Ash
(Wolves)
19 Jan J.P on The Arsenal v City
kevin raymond (Arsenal / Man City)
16 Jan He is back in life
Gacina Bozidar (Atletico Madrid / Torres)
14 Jan Shedman haiku .2
Alex Saynor (Bristol City)
14 Jan Shedman haiku Alex Saynor (Bristol City)
14 Jan Molineux haiku Alex Saynor
( Fulham / Wolves)
14 Jan A-Sken For Trouble jim dolbear ( Man U)
13 Jan Why ? kevin halls
(Coventry City)
11 Jan Bitter Blue ap Staunton (Everton )
10 Jan Tadic E Power
(Man U / Southampton )
06 Jan 3rd round haiku NCFC S B Ingle ( Norwich City / Preston NE )
06 Jan The Whinger kevin halls (Chelsea)
06 Jan One Love kevin raymond (Chelsea / Arsenal)
06 Jan Red Dons rule Kingsmeadow Emdad Rahman
(AFC Wimbledon / Liverpool)
05 Jan Extraterrestrial Lights
Graham Salter (Preston NE / Norwich City )
03 Jan New Years Day
kevin raymond ( Chelsea /Tottenham H / Man City)
01 Jan The FA Cup Geof Dawson (Wolves)
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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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24th April 2025 at 1:05 pm
Hey Denys..love this
“You may be a miner working down a pit.
You may be a rock star playing sold out gigs.
You may be a fireman putting out a blaze.
You may be an inmate chalking off the days. ”
Not just Dylan but maybe an unintentional nod to and shades of Ian Dury’s enigmatic ‘What A Waste’ rhythmic scanning..eg:
I could be the driver in an articulated lorry
I could be a poet I wouldn’t need to worry
I could be a teacher in a classroom full of scholars
I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs
What a waste
What a waste
Was lucky enough to meet and interview him twice.
Best wishes from Forest Green to Genoa C
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8th March 2025 at 2:34 pm
Thanks Crispin
I’ve been to FGR a couple of times in the past – great food! Barnet look like they have the NL sewn up for this season, but I wish you well for promotion next season.
Regards, Beth
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11th January 2025 at 8:13 am
TO ADD THIS TO THIS POEM’S COMMENT:WELCOME BACK DAVID MOYES!!!
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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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