Christopher T. George
I am a long-time Liverpool FC fan, born January 10, 1948 in Liverpool Maternity Hospital Street, the same hospital where John Lennon was born eight years earlier. My mum and dad and I emigrated to the United States by January 1955. I returned to go to school in Liverpool in the “Swinging Sixties” while living with my maternal grandparents, during which time I was able to stand on the Kop at Anfield and experience the Reds winning the First Division Championship in 1963-1964. Attended first team and reserve matches with my maternal grandfather George T. Matchett and elder brother Liverpool music hall comedian Billy Matchett. Able to be at Wembley in May 1965 to see the Reds win the FA Cup in extra time for the first time versus Leeds United due to the flying header from centre forward Ian St. John. I returned to the U.S. in August 1968. I now live with my wife Donna in Newark, Delaware, and am a member of the Official Liverpool Supporters Club located in Wilmington, Delaware. We regularly gather at Catherine Rooney’s pub in Trolley Square, Wilmington to watch the team play. My poems have been published worldwide.
Poems by Christopher T. George
- Flowers for Adrian
- Blanchflower
- Season’s Start
- End to a Topsy Turvy Season
- Andy Carroll
- Nothing’s Impossible
- The Unused Substitute
- Messi and Messier
- Another Red Face = Another Cup Disgrace
- Come Back to Kenny, Kenny
- Bury Them
- My Ride with Sven
- Owen Is a Magpie
- Final Bound Again?
- Beckham’s Parking Cars
- Super Red Takes Over Emirates Stadium
- Kamikazi Football’s Back at Anfield!
- The Puppet Master
- Secret Weapon Explodes
- World Cup Semi-Final, July 4, 2006
- World Cup Dream Over
- Crunch Time at the World Cup
- Crunch Time at the World Cup. Part 2
- Another England v Ecuador Haiku
- Quarter Final Anticipatory Haiku
- Give It to the Beanpole!
- Mr. Roboto Misses a Penalty
- Denied by the Paintwork
- The Coin Toss
- Uruguayan Sunrise?
- Wipe That Smile Off His Face!
- Ruud of Alex?
- Heart of England
- Sam Allardyce for England?
- The Second Coming of Robbie Fowler?
- Sven’s Gen
- Another Cup Disgrace
- I Died a Thousand Deaths (Luton 3, Liverpool 5)
- No More Burnley Burnout for the Reds?
- More Hands than Feet
- When the Saints Come Marching In?
- O’Malley’s Matins
- Yokohama Heartache
- World Club Championship Haiku First Eleven
- Crouch Scores!
- George Best (1946-2005)
- Dropping the Pilot
- Red Inside and Out
- When Crouch will score
- Toby with Aisling at Spanish Point
- Sounds Just Like Crouch
- St. Michael Owen
- Bang the Drum, Salvator
- Fairness & Sanity Hang by a Thread
- Crouch
- Camus Played in Goal for Algeria
- Outrage
- Cherry Wags
- Just Ten Haiku (after Crispin)
- Dead Jammy
- Carlos Valderrama Doesn’t Play for Argentina
- Change of Programming
- That Awful Colour Problem
- Women’s Football in Warrington (UEFA European Women’s Championship Jun. 12 ’05)
- Titans of the Beautiful Game
- Sleeping with the Cup
- El Amor Brujo – Rafa the Magician
- Lord Cisse of Frodsham
- Alf Arrowsmith, LFC Champion 1964, RIP
- Benitez and Mourinho
- Biscan! Biscan! Biscan!
- Not the Way It Should Be
- Wigan in the Premiership?
- Ruing Roo
- MASSIVE
- Stevie Gerrard and the ‘Pool
- Odour de Football
- Yuke
- Enough to Make Thee Drink, Sam
- Releasing the Doves
- A Football By Any Other Name
- A Ball in the Net Is Worth Two in the Stands
- Daddy Grod
- Football with the Feet
- Macca Plays the Super Bowl
- Kickabout
- The Hand of God: Blackburn vs. Bolton, Monday, January 24, 2005
- Saturday Evening Listening to the Results
- Two football haiku
- Play Suspended
- Ted Hughes and Crow at Turf Moor (To P. Maguire)
- The Trouble With Princes
- Ghost Concerto for a Spring that Was
- Spanish Shuffle
- Diouf
- No More Footie at Strawberry Field
- A Cup Disgrace
- Direct Hit, Calderstones Park, 1967
- Playing Away, 1967
- Prize Conker: Rose Lane School, Liverpool, 1963
- Load more
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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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