And we’re off @ World Cup Russia~ June 2018
Great to see all your World Cup poems already. Check out the new archive sections ‘Your World Cup Poems’ and ‘Your World Cup Haiku’ in Crispin’s Corner. All your World Cup poems get saved there. A new World Cup poem features every day. . Please TAG YOUR POEMS ‘World Cup 2018’/‘Russia’/’England’ or whichever country/countries you include in your poem. They’re loaded and saved as tags for you to use. Try not to enter multiple poems on the same day.. Kindly spread them out to allow other some space. If you write poems on every game played on one day in the early rounds...(as quite a few did last time) ..can you kindly put those all in one poem on that day…so as not to over dominate the list of new poems on that day…(thanks)
LOOK HOW MANY POEMS AND HAIKU WE RECEIVED LAST TIME IN BRAZIL 2014 ON THE OLD SITE!!!!!
321 Individual World Cup Brazil 2014 POEMS~
Peter Goulding 78; Emdad Rahman 64; Trent Morris 57; Kevin Raymond 40;
World Cup Willie 25; Kevin Halls 9; Crispin Thomas 8; Henri Astier 7; David Sanderson 7; Graham Salter 5 ; E. Power 3; B.Bilston 3; ; Denys E Jones 2; Alex Saynor 2; Bozidar Gacina 3; Khadim Hussain 2; A.Hofler / J.Holland / B.KIrk ;Dachlan Cartwright / J .Cummin / Dulwich Poet / SB Ingle / M.McSweeney / D Osgerby / Gini P/ N.Humphries / D.Monaghan / H.Birtles / P.Tubb (All: 1)
329 BRAZIL 14 WORLD CUP HAIKU
CrispinThomas 119; Kevin Halls 59; Kevin Raymond 54; Trent Morris 39;
P.Garrett 16; E. Power 12; Jim Dolbear 8; Alex .Saynor 7; Emdad. Rahman 6; Alan McKean 4; Khadim Hussain 3; Peter .Goulding 1;Stuart Butler 1
Looking forward to your poems and haiku
All the best from Football Poets
Crispin, Clik The Mouse, Christian and Stuart Butler.
PS IF YOU WANT TO CHECK OUT THE FRONT PAGE OF THE OLD SITE AND THE POEMS DURING WORLD CUP BRAZIL JUNE 2014, You can FIND IT ARCHIVED in the British Library archive section UNDER June 2014 just click on the llink on the home page of the current site…keep on… Crispin/Chridtian/ Clik |The Nouse & Stuart Butler.
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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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