An appeal from the Football Poets

S.O.S. (Save Our Site). Calling all football/soccer poets, football fans and people interested in promoting literacy and poetry, especially linking poetry with a subject they love; Football! Football! Football! 

Football Poets is the world's original and by far the largest football poetry web site. It has received thousands of entries over the years and hundreds of thousands of unique visitors to the site; it is loved by Football poets worldwide.

The FootballPoets site is the largest collective of footballing bards in the world. I have personally contributed well over 500 poems to this superb group for many years.

The site is 12 years old now, extremely large, and written in old technology (ASP), whilst also coping with housing OVER 13,750 Published poems from over  28000 submissions since 2000 . We now finally have to look at any ways possible of making a complete re-vamp in order for the site to survive. The Editors alone carry the cost of annual hosting, but other than that there is no budget for anything.

This is a grass roots poetry initiative that has survived for 12 years without funding from any source and it now deserves the support of government and commercial organisations in order to survive, in fact anyone who might be interested in Football or poetry or both; like thousands of people who already value and contributed to this football poetry site in the past. It would be a massive loss to both football and to grass roots poetry if this website were to fold due to lack of funding.

This week the site received 100 Euros from Italy! A certain loyal poet and Everton fan. The Editors thank those who have kindly donated so far.

Thousands of poems from the site have been filed for safe keeping by the British Library. British Library Link:  www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/120341

Can you spare £10:00?

The site isn't set up for credit cards and can only accept cheques (for those still with cheque books).

Cheques payable to:  The Football Poets

Write to:  The Football Poets, 4 The Retreat, Butterow Stroud,  Glos, GL5 2LS

UK. Tel 01453 757376

Mob: 07837 798463

All suggestions: technical advice, sponsor suggestions, donations  are welcome. Please email Crispin Thomas, one of the original creators and editors of this website or Simon Icke - editors@footballpoets.org or poetsimon@aol.com

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