All Your August Team Poems
August nods and team name-checks for Brigg Town, Burnley, Chelsea, Crook Town, Fulham, Heaton, Liverpool, Middlesborough, Norwich City, Parkgate, Stoke City and Watford,
30 Aug They Were Lucky…Yawn, Zzzzz.
kevin raymond (Chelsea)
24 Aug what fore(d)? Apollo Gees (Watford)
24 Aug
23 Aug p haiku Maureen Yeo (Chelsea)
23 Aug Boro’s Season Khadim Hussain (Chelsea)
18 Aug Bad Case of Chelsea Blues (Doctor, Doctor) Trent Morris (Chelsea)
15 Aug What’s up Doc ? John Oliver (Chelsea)
14 Aug Messi Signs for Burnley FC Sharon Jones (Burnley)
13 Aug Eva. Eva kevin raymond (Chelsea)
12 Aug To The Hedge and Back
Tim Harris (Brigg Town / Parkgate)
10 Aug Barry Joy-One of Our Own-NCFC S B Ingle (Norwich City)
10 Aug A Day In The Life kevin halls (Coventry City)
09 Aug Red lift off! Emdad Rahman
(Liverpool / Stoke City )
09 Aug Early Doors. kevin Raymond (Chelsea)
08 Aug This day, This day Geof Dawson
05 Aug Surgite si adhuc credetis….Stand up if you still believe
ron Dixon (Fulham)
04 Aug The ‘best league in the world’ is back
Gary Oliver (Crook Town / Heaton)
03 Aug New Signing Sharon Jones
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Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.
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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Latest Comments
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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