I like to write poems with a sense of place (some of those places being the River Thames, London, Bournemouth and South Wales) and have recently had poems published by London Grip, Two Rivers Press, Alan Summers’ Pan Haiku Review, Places of Poetry and Wokingham Today. As a football fan I have travelled to most parts of the country to support Fulham as they languished in divisions 3 and 4 before making their way up the leagues (and into Europe). Other poems can be accessed at the site below.
www.wilderspoolcauseway.com
Poems by Alex Saynor
- If Shelley Watched Scott McTominay
- The Halfway Line on the Other Side
- Cardiff and the Sea of Rain
- The Margam Deer
- Black Country Mince Pies (and Other Fragments of Future Lost Films)
- Goal Machine
- Opting Out
- Rubber Crumb Gully
- Crucial Stops at Critical Times
- The Magic Sponge
- The Day of the Leaflets
- A Non-Ascending Order of Passes
- Cirrus Never Whispers
- Bournemouth Fan, Alum Bay
- Under the Radio
- Palace Sunrise
- Whiteboard Scattergraph
- The Ghost of Barry Bannan
- The Reducer
- Wembley
- The Myth of the Man with Time
- Missing the Window
- A Robin for the Equinox
- Hammersmith Clipboards
- How Did You Get Me Again?
- One Of These Days: A Full Back’s Triolet
- How You Keep Your Ruins
- Little Aeroplane
- Cinder Pitch
- Away from Imber Court
- Table Football at the College of Agriculture by the Sea
- Angels of Wallasey
- Nanny State
- Ashley’s Time
- Saturday at Barracks Lane
- Mid-Season Suspension
- A Premonition of John Madejski’s Life after Auto Trader: Pt 1
- Into the Side Netting
- A Russian Album
- Stadiwm Vibrant Vapours
- The Dugouts on the Cliff
- Roy and Ray
- Wanted Man (at Hounslow Central)
- Old Harry and his Wife
- Terminal Feedback
- Stockholm
- An Improvised Match
- Bristol Sun (FA People’s Cup Semi-Final Tournament, March 24th 2017)
- The Quietness of the Kipper Season
- A Meadow Park Scoreboard
- Strange Shapes of Loyalty
- Europa Promises
- No Bitterness
- Durban City Maestro
- Silverware and Crow’s Feet
- Stanlake Meadows
- Beneath the East Stand
- Open Session
- Last of the Crooners
- Astro Storm
- Jamie Cureton
- Crossflow Winds
- Herbert and Bertha
- The Great Unveiling
- The Chiropractor
- Grass Roots
- Mudchute
- Roy and the Shisha Pipe
- Our New Manager looks like a Coach Driver
- North Sheen Allotment
- Molineux haiku
- Shedman haiku
- Shedman haiku no.2
- A View from the Retail Park
- North Sea Island Pitches
- Norfolk Jim (Post Turin)
- Leaves on the Line
- Life Begins in Watford
- Ultras
- A Combine Harvester with Lawrie Sanchez
- Partial Eclipse
- Sun Trap
- Chile Pepper
- Snapshots
- Constellations of the Southern Cross
- Old Gold
- Billy
- Roy and Ray
- Last Year’s Windows
- Loyalty Points
- Anthem of the Shin
- The Prophets of the Crabtree
- Les Éléphants Haiku
- Good Migrations haiku
- On Middlebrook Boulevard
- An Upper Room in Westbourne Grove
- Chancing the Fall
- Bishop’s Park haiku
- The Annexation of Branksome Chine
- Season Ticket
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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!
Latest Poems
Denys E. W. Jones
2nd October 2026
joe morris
22nd September 2026
Crispin Thomas
21st September 2026
Alex Saynor
18th September 2026
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10th September 2026
joe morris
29th August 2026
Mike Bartram
25th August 2026
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22nd August 2026
Denys E. W. Jones
21st August 2026
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8th August 2026
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
28th July 2026 at 9:40 pm
Hi Denys. Thanks for your kind words. I could have mentioned Dixie Dean but decided not to.
Best wishes, mate
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26th July 2026 at 3:47 pm
Great knowledge of Everton history, Joe.
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23rd July 2026 at 6:54 pm
Hi Jason,
Sorry I forgot to congratulate you on your excellent poem as well.
Keep well
Joe
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23rd July 2026 at 6:43 pm
Hi Jason,
Thanks so much for your kind words about Kevin Keegan, a footballer of legendary status and deeply missed.
Best wishes
Joe
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23rd July 2026 at 12:01 pm
Thank you, Crispin. I will defo encorage my bunch to contribute and will of course clear it with staff room.
Many thanks
Jase
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22nd July 2026 at 6:48 pm
Great poem Jase.
You are a man of my own heart …
And great to hear that you your students poems from our site.
Keep on and more please
if ever some of your students write anything suitable for here and most importantly they give you permission to publish them, you can always do so under your name referencing their names and the school..and year.
Best Crispin
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22nd July 2026 at 10:29 am
I think this is best thing I have read so far about the legend. Thanks
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22nd July 2026 at 10:22 am
One of the greats, inspired my generation of school kids in the 80s
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23rd May 2026 at 3:35 pm
Hi Crispin,
Thanks for the featured poem for the Arsenal Premier League victory. I love that photo showing the Arsenal ladies and fans in full rattle and rosette mode. I’ve seen it before quite a few times and, I think, a bit iconic. I think it was before the Gunners victory against Liverpool in the 1950 FA Cup Final. Great photograph.
Thanks
Joe
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8th May 2026 at 4:21 pm
Thanks for that Joe. Yes it’s been some season we had a blip but came out of it and finished strong. A mate of mine supports West Ham here in Coventry and my next door neighbour is a Spurs supporter, and both are getting edgy ! I like the Championship though as it’s competitive and has some good teams, players, and fans. Anyway we are back in the top flight and who knows what will happen ?
Cheers. Kev.
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