All Your May Team Poems
With name-checks for :Barnsley, Burnley, Chorley, Dover Athletic, Dulwich Hamlet, England, Forest Green Rovers, Kettering Town, Leicester City, Man Utd, Middlesborough, Millwall, Newcastle Utd, Northwich Victoria, Norwich, Nuneaton & Preston.
25 May Promotion Awaits Tykes Alun Robert (Barnsley / Millwall)
23 May Your Breaking News Ain’t Breaking Us Carol Ann Wood (Chelsea / Man Utd)
23 May I have a dream Dulwich Poet (Dulwich Hamlet)
20 May The Leicester City Dream James Foreman (Leicester City)
18 May Keep On Dreaming. (For Mr Ranieri)*
kevin raymond (Leicester City)
18 May Can’t Explain this Feeling
S B Ingle (Norwich City)
17 May The 26 Kevin Halls (England)
16 May Swapping blurts with Shakespeare
Slangtastic Sr Fox (Leicester City)
15 May Mighty Millwall From The Den
Laurie ( Millwall)
14 May Cider with Rovers haiku
Crispin Thomas (Forest Green Rovers)
13 May Hazard Trent Morris (Chelsea)
11 May Tinker Man
mark merriman (Leicester City)
11 May The Fosse Way
mark merriman (Leicester City)
11 May L.S.F(Leicester Sixteen Fantasy)
Kyle Norbury (Leicester City)
11 May Big Up To Leicester City
kevin raymond (Leicester City)
06 May The Sea is Calm Tonight
Stuart Butler (Forest Green Rovers/ Dover Athletic)
05 May Miracle Man
Slangtastic Sr Fox (Leicester City)
04 May Five Thousand To One
Trent Morris (Leicester City)
04 May Swapping Shirts with Shakespeare: Dover v Forest Green
Stuart Butler (Dover Ath/Forest Green)
03 May Super Foxes
Kevin Halls (Leicester City)
03 May Dilly Ding Dilly Dong
Crispin Thomas (Leicester City)
02 May Leicester City Champions Denys E. W. Jones (Leicester City)
02 May Can we say
Gacina Bozidar (Leicester City)
01 May For Boro Fans Friday is Fun Night! – Villanelle Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough)
01 May The Battle of Turf Moor
Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough/Burnley)
01 May Boro Haiku
Khadim Hussain (Middlesborough)
01 May I am a Boro fan
Khadim Hussain Middlesborough/Preston)
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20th September 2023 at 1:37 pm
Lovely stuff for one of the best.
We love him to death down at the Palace.
I’ll post my Roy poem a bit later. You’ve inspired me to finish it.
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19th September 2023 at 5:06 pm
I’d like to think some of my scarves might get passed down the generations, but can’t see some of the “quality merchandise” I have making much past my son’s generation. They’ll fall apart before he even has kids, I reckon!
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7th September 2023 at 2:43 pm
Very true Crispin. Thanks!
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3rd September 2023 at 6:55 pm
Play Up Pompey indeed Richard .
My first ever proper game when i was 10 was Chelsea 7-4 Pompey on Xmas morning 1959, Greavesie got 4.
First visited Fratton Park with Chelsea (2-2) and stood among loads of sailors back in the old Second Dvision early 60s . That’s when I first heard the Pompey Chimes..
Last visited in the mid 2000s to run a football poetry workshop on racism with local young students in the Study Centre you had then at the time.
Had a great chat with some of your fans when you came here to Forest Green last season…
best wishes
Crispin
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1st September 2023 at 7:17 pm
Cliché heaven or hell..we get it all
Welcome to Football Poets John
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28th August 2023 at 10:54 am
Thanks Crispin – noted re the boxer! Never know, perhaps we’ll get Forest Green in the cup… or Chelsea!
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27th August 2023 at 4:47 pm
Hey Rowan
Tough line up of opening fixtures but werlcome to the National League and to Football Poets.
I’ve often passed your ground but never actually been.
Had to remove the boxert poem , sorry ….only poems about football, though i did read your tenuous link!
best wishes
Crispin -Editor
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6th August 2023 at 3:46 pm
Don’t worry Apollo, I have examined the evidence on YouTube – he looks great, the real deal!
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7th July 2023 at 5:26 pm
Let’s Hope for your sake Denys, that he doesn’t turn out to be from La-la-Land!
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1st July 2023 at 6:33 pm
Lovely imagery in your Blyth poem Greg
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