Christmas Truce Poems
Your Christmas Truce 1914 Football Poems~ Selection 2000-2023
2023
19 Sep The Christmas Truce Phil Brennan
2021
19 Dec The First World War football truce joe morris
2018~ 100th Anniversary of WW1 End
27 Dec It Came Upon A Midnight Clear – Stuart Butler
05 Dec One Christmas in the Trenches ~ Centenary-Crispin Thomas
23 DecThe Truce traduced –Clik The Mouse
2014 ~ 100th Anniversary of WW1 Start
24 Dec Bydand Trent Morris
22 Dec The Great Christmas Truce of 1914 –Emdad Rahman
22 Dec Young Bertie Hislop (no man’s land hero) – John J O’Connor
19 Dec The Un-Final Count of Footballers Lost 1914-1918 –Crispin Thomas
18 Nov Football In The Trenches -Stuart Butler
02 Dec The Game – Christmas 1914 Jean Maskell
17 Nov The Sainsbury’s Advertisement Stuart Butler
14 Nov One Christmas Truce in the Supermaket Crispin Thomas
14 Nov The 1914 Truce in Context Stuart Butler
14 Nov Live and Let Live Stuart Butler
2013
30 Dec The other WW1 Christmas Football Matches Lou Butler
13 Dec Christmas 1914 –Stuart Butler
2012
1914, the game of truce Clik the mouse
2011
23 Dec Christmas Day Truce, 1914 – Clik The Mouse
16 Dec More Than a Game Ianthe Exall
11 Dec Forest Green Rovers and WW1 Stuart Butler
2009
01 Apr WW1 Poets fast forward to here and now –Eoin Brooke
2007
19 Dec xmas truce match haiku –Emdad Rahman
2006
27 Dec Long Time Ago at Christmas SB Ingle
27 Dec Christmas Truce 2006 – S B Ingle
24 Dec In The Trenches Crispin Thomas (haiku)
2005
21 Dec One Christmas Crispin Thomas (haiku)
2004
22 Dec Ceasefire Christmas 1914 Haiku Clik The Mouse
13 Oct The Christmas Truce 1914 Mark Thomas
2003
18 Dec Coached By Donkeys Verdun
15 Dec The World’s Greatest Tommy Atkins
2002
Dec 20 Play Football Not War Tony Lewis Jones
2000
23 Dec War & Christmas Stuart Butler
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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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