Poems by Tony Lewis-Jones
- Haiku – Van Persie 2
- Haiku – Van Persie
- Haiku – New Season
- Haiku – August
- 1977
- The Year That City Bought The Title Haiku
- 19-18
- Tanka – Nearly
- Tanka – 1970
- Fabio the Philosopher Haiku
- Tanka – World Cup
- Chelsea Double Haiku 2
- League Cup Triumph Haiku 2010
- After the hour of the betrayer, the howling of the animals
- Happy Birthday Sir Alex
- Tanka – Arshavin
- Haiku – Man U 2 Sunderland 2
- Yet Another Website That Claims To Know It All
- Man U’s “Chelsea Double” Haiku
- Reflections on the League Cup
- Out Of The Mists, The Slain
- Tanka – Tevez
- The Day That Chelsea Let Mourinho Go
- It’s The Roon and Ron Show
- The Apex Of The Team
- Tanka – Paul Scholes
- Man U 7 Roma 1
- Let’s just go through that again slowly
- One More Time For Sir Alex
- The Players’ Player Reflects Upon His Brief Time At The Top
- Haiku – RVN
- Double-Double
- The 1 in 2s
- Haiku – Carling Cup 2006
- Haiku – League Cup 2006
- Haiku – Rooney
- Enquiry
- More About The Treble
- Get Well Soon Bestie
- Haiku – Sven
- Early Days
- Mugging At The Millennium
- When Andrei Kanchelskis Ran Riot
- The Relegation Season
- Child Making Footballs, Age 8
- Two Tanka – Fergie’s Cup
- Haiku – Invincibles
- The Thinker
- Haiku: Hats Off To The Arsenal
- Old Trafford
- Haiku: THE TREBLE
- Whimsy on an August Day – Ronaldo
- ‘Ere Fergie, Where D’You Get Those Shorts?
- CHAMPIONS 2002/03
- Applications Invited
- Titles
- Play Football, Not War
- United In Defeat
- The Striker’s Lust For Goals
- D-Day
- Wales 2 Italy 1
- Aftershock (One minute’s silence)
- Pressure Of The Past
- Becks And Posh
- Bayer Who?
- Sketches For A Poem About Ryan Giggs
- Haiku – van Nistelrooy
- Grandmasters
- I Saw Roy Keane
- The Greatest Team Never To Win A Title
- The Fall (for Fabien Barthez)
- Man Utd – Decline And Fall?
- Selling Up
- A New Season
- Eric Cantona And The Avant-Garde
- Benito Carbone is 36
- Falling From Grace In The Eyes Of A Child
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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.
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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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