Denys E. W. Jones
I was born in 1962 in England. In 1984 I moved to Genova, Italy, where I work as an English teacher. As you can see from my poems, I support Everton and Genoa. Occasionally I write poems on themes other than football and if you are curious, you can find them on Poemhunter.
Poems by Denys E. W. Jones
- Addio Carlo
- The Monkey
- Squeaky Bum Time
- Don’t Sell DCL
- For Club and Country
- Dies Vini Rosarumque
- Who are you, Cazoo?
- Postponed by Corona – Limerick
- Closed Doors
- Dead and Buried
- Nineteen Ninety-Five
- Sweet Success
- Ancelotti’s Blue and White Army
- Mr X’s Blue and White Army
- Blue and White Army
- With God on Their Side
- The Years Slip By
- Marco Silva’s Blue and White Army
- It Could Have Been Us
- England’s Number One
- Russian Campaign
- Big Sam Allardyce’ Blue and White Army
- The Prodigal Son
- Ronald Koeman’s Blue and White Army
- Football and Brexit
- Leicester City Champions
- Ticket Prices
- The Cost of England’s Exit
- England-Italia
- Rob Martinez’ Blue and White Army
- Thinking the Unthinkable
- Foot Fan Station
- The Nightmare is Over
- A or B?
- Just a Thought
- Behind Closed Doors
- Piermario Morosini
- Who are these People?
- Limited Resources
- A Thousand Fathers
- The Viola in Yellow
- In the Mists of Time
- The Seven Sorrows
- In your Pomp
- Don’t Go to the Match Today
- In the Land of the Yak
- When the Final Whistle blows
- England, where are you?
- The Bus Fare to Kirkby
- How will I survive?
- Fabio Capello’s Red & White Army
- When I saw that Ball go in
- Filled with Blue and White
- Like the Shirts!
- Feed the Yak!
- We want a Sugar Daddy!
- Hammer and Tongs
- Ten Thousand Poems Shining
- We all are Evertonians
- The Fair Weather Supporter
- A Day to Celebrate
- We are Genoa!
- Hey Hey we’re the Toffees!
- May Day at Marassi
- Reality Check
- We won’t go to Kirkby
- Nine Thousand Poems Shining
- Fat Contract
- Thirsting for Revenge
- Fifteen Euros
- Oh Come All Ye Faithful
- I saw a crafty Striker
- White Hart Pain
- Black Cat White Cat
- You can’t win ’em all
- David Moyes’s Blue and White Army
- No-Hope Football Team
- The Blues are down the Pub with Moyesy
- He’s not There
- A Ticket for the Match
- I wanna be a Gaffer
- Four Stars
- My Old Man’s a City Gent
- Datemi (Give me)
- Homeward English Soldiers
- For us the Bell tolls
- Back in B!
- Eight Thousand Poems Shining
- Don’t mention the War!
- We won’t go all the Way
- Bang the Drum, Hang out the Flags
- Bring on The Shots!
- Imagine
- Bluenose Blues
- I blame Thatcher
- Le cose che fanno la domenica (Things that make a Sunday)
- The Causes
- A Horde of Football Fans: A Poem of Abuse
- Now we can concentrate on the League
- A Reply to Eddie Gibbons
- The Only Bluenose?
- When
- The Thought Goal
- My Strange Football Dream
- What I got for Christmas
- What a Difference a Year makes!
- All I want for Christmas
- The Source of Wisdom
- In My Executive Box
- My Beautiful Replica Shirt
- Go, Go, Go, Bobby Latchford!
- Onward Blueclad Soldiers
- Bluenose in Exile
- At the End of the Day
- Calciomania (Footballmania)
- A Taste of Europe
- The King of the Gaffers
- Let’s see some Fairplay, Boyo!
- My Father’s what’s known as a Gaffer
- Hallelujah, I’m a Fan!
- Top-Notch Kawasak’
- A Futile Resolution
- Strachan feels the Strain
- A. B. F. C.
- To a young Fan asking stupid Questions
- Match Days
- A Defence of Football Poesy
- The Prince of Buenos Aires
- Addio alla B (Farewell to B)
- Will you come to De Ferrari?
- No particular Place to go
- The Spaniard and The Scot
- Are you watching, Silvio?
- Vent’anni fa
- Glory Glory William Ralph Dean
- Europe, here we come!
- No Way, José
- Come in and make yourself at home
- Money can’t buy Success
- Up There with the Big Boys
- Down among the Dead Men
- The Armchair Supporter
- The Penaltytaker’s Lament
- Anyone for Pizza?
- The Scarf My Father Wore
- Come off it, Ref!
- The Substitute’s Lament
- Rafacabana
- Don’t go changing, Duncan
- Senhor Mourinho expounds his Philosophy
- Eleven in the Mornin’
- The Lamentation of the EX-Footballer
- Who’s gonna open the Scoring?
- When we were winning Two-Nil
- I saw Nothing
- To My Unknown Idol
- Stick to the Football!
- The Red and The Blue
- A. B. M. U.
- Anyone but Man U
- While we were conquering Europe
- One-Nil to the Chelsea
- The Terrace Chant United
- Wailing for Wayne
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11th July 2021 at 3:19 pm
Thank you!
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9th July 2021 at 12:35 pm
lovely imagery Carol
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8th July 2021 at 7:56 pm
A more than able Kane – nice one.
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8th July 2021 at 7:54 pm
Apologies, just spotted your rhyme scheme. Don’t do end rhymes too often.
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8th July 2021 at 7:52 pm
I noticed the officials too and wondered what all the kerfuffle was about. Seriously?? Such a shame there always has to be some sort of controversy. Love how you managed to get all this into verse and so quickly. Not sure how you feel about enjambment, but I’d be tempted to tweak line 4 to ‘Danish national anthem booed, flipped over’. But that’s just me. I most certainly agree with your fair play sentiments.
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6th July 2021 at 11:11 pm
Love the wry humour. Good piece.
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6th July 2021 at 4:45 pm
yeah, took a bit of thought putting the two parts together so it also worked as a whole. Didn’t know about this site till I started searching markets for football poems/current events – not many! Some good stuff on here.
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6th July 2021 at 11:58 am
A sobering reminder ..thanks for posting Carol
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5th July 2021 at 8:38 pm
Sounds great. I’m going back in the club and I’m sure it’ll be another epic night. Social distancing soon disappeared though and there was lots of hugging going on. Still after the 18 months we’ve all had it had to happen that’s the beauty of football. Enjoy your night.
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5th July 2021 at 8:22 pm
Thank you
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