Poems by John Cox
- Who Cares About The League Cup?
- Another Record
- £1000 Fine for Fouling
- Inside the Technical Area
- Distracted Terrier
- The Second Eleven
- A View Through The Window
- A Tale of Two Forests
- FA Youth Cup Final
- Another Day, Another Cup
- One Sits, One Stands
- The Philosopher Who Was Never Drawn Away
- Characteristics of the Season
- Over the Bar
- The New Coach
- First Name Terms and Conditions
- The Motion of Poetry
- Free Ticket
- Managerial Word Order & Punctuation
- The Fifth Season
- Old News
- International BBC
- Italia ’90
- A Distant Memory
- Twice Derby
- FA Cup Cycles
- FA Cup Final
- Back to Basics
- A Rubbish Poem
- An Awkward Customer
- A Memorable Sketch
- Bookie Haiku
- A Game of Two Penalties
- A View from the Bridge
- Referring Words
- Players and Managers
- International Friendly
- Writing about Football
- “. . . if you want to write whatever you want to write,
- Man inside a stadium
- Football Star
- It just took place, Archimedian-like
- My philosophical wife
- Kick-off near enough the centre
- Team Talk
- Managing Words
- Footballers and Novelists
- A Difficult Team To Balance
- I Used To Be A Footballer
- Football rattles in the trees, the old games
- The New Stanley Mathews
- Football Without Pictures
- Football Economies
- Football Divisions
- Goal!
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Latest Comments
24th September 2023 at 5:14 pm
Very accurate indeed!
Palace home for me is always a tough journey as well. From the wilds of west London to Selhurst is a random journey into the unknown.
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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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