Poems by U Rowe
- Euro 2020: RSS heart
- Euro 2020: Wrong doorbell
- It’s at the front door……
- TFF Haiku
- Four Nil, would you Adam n Eve it!
- Tell me that you’ll open your eyes…..
- England 2 – 0 Germany, Last 16
- Euro 2020, 16th June 2021
- knotty
- Euro 2020 opener
- Why no poem?
- Euro 2016 XII: C’est fini!
- Euro 2016 XI: Corp speak
- Euro 2016 X
- Euro 2016 IX : Ireland out
- Euro 2016 VIII: Brexit II
- Euro 2016 VII: OMG
- Euro 2016 VI
- Euro 2016 V
- Euro 2016 III
- Euro 2016 IV
- Euro 2016 II
- Euro 2016 I: avance!
- Euro 2016 0: Who, who, who?
- Euro 2016 q10: perfect 10
- Euro 2016 q9: Low it, just Low it that we beat ’em!
- Euro 2016 q8: Georgia off our minds
- Euro 2012 XVII : the Final
- Euro 2012 XVI : SF1, SF2
- Euro 2012 XV : QF2 – QF4
- Euro 2012 XIV : QF1
- Euro 2012 XIII : rest day
- Euro 2012 XII : Sonnet : GLT again!
- Euro 2012 X : Best fans
- Euro 2012 XI : you crane
- Euro 2012 IX : capiche?
- Euro 2012 VIII : The Fields
- Euro 2012 VII : all credit to disparaging comments….
- Euro 2012 VI : haiku
- Euro 2012 V : ABCD route
- Euro 2012 IV : Half-time remediation
- Euro 2012 III : First up
- Euro 2012 II : www dot the Poles
- Euro 2012 I : Betrayed
- Euro 2008 X : who to support?
- Euro 2008 VIIII : QF2, QF3, QF4 : The Boxtrot
- Euro 2008 VIII : QF1 : Somnambulent symphony
- Euro 2008 VII : End of Group stages
- Euro 2008 VI : days 10 – 11
- Euro 2008 V : mixed bag : days 4 – 9
- Euro 2008 IV : Aggrievaderci
- Euro 2008 III : 2 close 2 call
- Euro 2008 II : it doesn’t add up
- Euro 2008 I : Pitching up short
- Euro 2005 III : Association Anonymous
- Euro 2005 II : England v Denmark – an attractive fixture
- Euro 2005 I : Remember the name Haiku
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 21 & 22
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 20
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 23 – The Final entry
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 19
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 14
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 15
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 16 thru Day 18
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 12
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 13
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 07
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 08
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 09
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 11
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 10
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 05 briefly
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 06
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 01 thru 03
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 04
- Euro 2004 Diary : Day 05 Bloomsday
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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 Poems
joe morris
16th May 2022
Denys E. W. Jones
15th May 2022
joe morris
15th May 2022
Emdad Rahman
14th May 2022
Alex Saynor
14th May 2022
Alex Saynor
14th May 2022
joe morris
12th May 2022
kevin halls
9th May 2022
joe morris
8th May 2022
Crispin Thomas
8th May 2022
Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
27th April 2022 at 10:01 pm
Many thanks for featuring my poem. It’s been one hell of a journey but for all the bad times I’m still here supporting my home town club. Play Up Sky Blues !
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27th March 2022 at 11:36 am
Re: first verse of ‘My dad’ by Joe Morris..
Great words Joe…Moving.
It also reminds me, of all the people that I’ve been with in my life that just didn’t get football at all, full stop. So basically you never mentioned it, unless you enjoyed dumbfounded stares or extensive yawns! .
People who I talked with at length , often on their level, about loads of other stuff we both loved and like you basically everything but football!
This coincdentally included my strange dad : David Thomas : a brillant bohemian beatnik CND and Peace loving artist. He was someone who, being a very young writer and artist myself , with whom I could have had and shared so much stuff in common, but who I only finally met when I was 15.
As a result, and with the over-riding presence at atmosphere of his new partner and new step-son, I only actually got to see him intermittently very briefly for around 20 years, before he passed on..
Your poem also reminds me of John Lennon’s words from the song ‘Julia’:
Half of what i say is meaningless,
but i say it just to reach you..”
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26th March 2022 at 7:04 pm
Haha, thanks Crispin, I hope you can at least see your pie well enough to eat it!
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26th March 2022 at 6:58 pm
Great imagery Joe …but I struggeled to read it in the fog at first…
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24th March 2022 at 9:28 pm
Looks like FGR are going up as champs Crispin ? A season is the proverbial rollercoaster ride, up and down and twists and turns. As Greavsie said ” It’s a funny old game. ” We love it though. ⚽️
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24th March 2022 at 9:12 pm
Tell me about it Kev…!!!!!
Great emotion …just how we’re feeling here in leafy Glos!
best C
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22nd March 2022 at 10:18 am
…Fan is short for fanatic.
Empires fall. Football’s
nowhere near
as important
as life and death…..
Great words Greg..keep on …best… C
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28th February 2022 at 9:10 am
‘Roman holiday’ … good line, Joe. As a Chelsea fan, I can’t get my thoughts together on all this yet. I suppose it would be nice to write something before the Big One drops
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18th January 2022 at 9:21 am
“Are you – and this is the most important –
wearing your lucky pants?”
(from ‘Reasons Why You Lost’ by Joe Williams)
ALWAYS JOE!
But when it’s cold like tonight at FGR v Mansfield its the Lucky Long Johns..
Rave on Lucky Pants.
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11th January 2022 at 10:21 pm
It’s weird to see it happening, especially when you consider the price of tickets at PL games. So much action often happens in the final 5 mins!
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