Poems by Sharon Jones
- Poem Pie Pint
- Mathison, Maths, and Mystery
- Blue Moon
- Match of the Day
- The Wrong Song on the Terrace
- Pelé
- Klinsmann, Cafe, and Calderdale
- Football o’er t’Moor
- We Feel Fine
- Haaland The Wolf (haiku)
- Scouse Bayeux Tapestry
- We Feel Fine
- Coley
- For the Love of Football
- We Can Be Heroes
- New Season
- “See you down the road…”
- How Much is Enough?
- There’s a War in Yemen
- Sign of the Times
- Kelleher Haiku
- Timperley Big Shorts FC
- Anfield Valentine
- The Hive
- Creative Play
- A Simple Game
- Leaving before the end of the Game…
- Reflection
- Shankly: Nature’s Fire
- Football & Rock & Roll
- Just a Game
- Football Matters
- Downstairs at Erics, Upstairs at Probe
- #9 Lennon
- 1963
- Ava White
- Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
- Punk, Football, & The Armadillo Tearooms
- Ray Kennedy
- Gerd Muller – ‘Bomber Der Nation’
- New Signing
- Messi Signs for Burnley Fc
- Love
- Liverpool V Osasuna
- In The Kop
- A New England: Reasons to be Cheerful
- All Things Must Pass
- A New England
- Football.
- Only Football.
- England’s Dreaming
- Jurgen Klinsmann
- Flash Football – 50 words
- Ciao Ancelotti
- Life Is Like Football
- Anas Laghari, Your Ploys Took A Hell Of A Beating.
- Liverpool: Rose-Tinted Specs
- Elvis in Football Boots
- Rose Reilly – International Women’s Day
- Ian St John
- Time Passages
- Hearts
- Burnley or the Bernabéu
- Kingfisher Blue
- Marine Mourinho & The Magic of The Cup
- King of the Kippax
- Le Boss
- Gerard Houllier – Le Boss (haiku)
- Bootroom Bards and Poets o’ the Pitch
- So Here it is Merry Christmas
- Saints & Sinners
- Man and Myth
- The Best of Maradona
- More Than A Footballer – Maradona
- Maradona
- Once Upon A Silent Terrace
- Forever In Blue Jeans (Followin’ The Storks)
- The Flowers of Liverpool (Lest we forget)
- Stop the Clocks
- Maradona 60
- Nobby Stiles
- This Football Life
- The Entry of Shankly into Anfield
- Just Fontaine
- So here it is Sir Bob Paisley
- Mapping the Game
- Kindness of Strangers (For Marcus Rashford)
- Grassroots Not Gravy-Train
- Football to Me
- Places of Poetry (2)
- Happy Birthday Johnny Rhythm
- Places of Poetry
- Signor Ancelotti
- The Glory of the Grassroots Game
- The Physio
- Grace
- Football Seasons
- All Things Must Pass
- We All Live in a Socially Distanced Kop!
- Ofqual Ofsted Offside
- Load more
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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!
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Latest Comments
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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1st July 2023 at 6:33 pm
Lovely imagery in your Blyth poem Greg
C
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