Football poet.
Poems by P Maguire
- Super Billy Kee
- The Leaving of Liverpool
- The Flowers of Liverpool (lest we forget)
- The Gaza Strip
- Alfredo di Stéfano
- Love Restored
- Liverpool Rising
- Make us Dream
- We Go Again
- A Liverpool Love Story (2014)
- Luis Suarez
- Sir Tom Finney
- Eusebio
- Philosophical Football
- Rock & Roll is the New Football
- John Lennon
- Come back Kenny
- The Liverpool Way
- Fine dreams of Heaven (A Liverpool Child)
- The Echoes of Childhood
- The History Boys
- Shakespeare’s Ghost
- Football History (Brazil)
- The Hollow Crowd
- Liverpool Dreams
- I Love Liverpool
- Me and Bobby Moore
- The Late Great Bobby Moore
- Football Sun and Shadow
- The Bard and the Beautiful Game
- The Spirit of Shankly
- JFT96
- SkyDiving Football Poet
- Oh Carroll!
- Bored with Barca
- UCFB: Football is The Business
- A Liverpool Love Poem
- Messi – The Little Maestro
- Comeback Kenny
- Total Football Poetry
- Come Back Kenny
- Mozart in Football Boots
- A Football Poet’s Bootroom
- At Season’s End
- Avram Grant
- “El pequeno pelirrojo de mil pecas lidera de nuevo a su cuadro”
- Use your Head not off your head.
- Within these Walls
- Hillsborough
- Milan – Real Madrid 19/04/89 Minuto di silenzio
- Fernando Torres
- The Wailing Wall of Wenger
- The Parable of the Short Sighted Football Manager
- ‘Highbury’ Haiku
- I Spy Through Wenger’s Eye
- Football and the Fragility of the Heart
- Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
- Fernando Torres
- Football to me
- Ronaldo’s Right Foot
- Accrington Stanley
- So here it is Merry Christmas…
- Football Literacy
- Football Numeracy
- The Scouse Armada
- STAND UP COME OUT
- Hungary’s National Icon
- Liverpool Haiku
- The Ghosts From the Playground
- When It’s Not Our Night
- Even When A Game is Lost, Football Still Goes On…
- Christmas Passed and Presant Yet?
- Playing Football Beneath The Stars
- SEASONS
- The Branding of Jose
- Walking the Line
- “The Name’s Stelling, Jeff Stelling!”
- I Love Alan Green cos He’s Grumpy!
- Not so Grim Grimsby!
- Simon Wiesenthal “Until the Final Whistle”
- When Pele plays football who does he dream he is?
- Sol Soars, and Scores!
- Moyes’ European Blues Delight for Big Sam’s Whites!
- Duncan Edwards
- At The Match
- The Striker
- A Liverpool Gospel
- Edgar Davids
- Jurgen Klinsmann
- John Barnes
- Another Glorious Chapter To the Liverpool Page
- Faith In Liverpool Faith in Football
- Garrincha
- Johann Cruyff
- LEV YASHIN
- Jimmy Greaves
- The Michael Owen Show
- The Predatory Striker
- Rafa Benitez
- You’ve got to be in it to win it!
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About This Site
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
kevin halls
30th October 2026
Clik The Mouse
28th October 2026
joe morris
25th October 2026
Jason Prasad
24th October 2026
joe morris
15th October 2026
joe morris
9th October 2026
Alex Saynor
8th October 2026
Clik The Mouse
7th October 2026
Clik The Mouse
4th October 2026
Denys E. W. Jones
2nd October 2026
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
24th October 2026 at 2:31 pm
Ha!! Just brilliant! I can hear this being sung. So funny!
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24th October 2026 at 2:28 pm
I love this verse as I know exactly that feeling of living in a fantasy while kicking the ball as a kid. Makes me wonder what fantasy world professional players live in when they dribble, pass and shoot? Hopefully it’s doesn’t always feel like routine job fired them
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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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