Football Poets

And so the world of football literature
Pays homage and tribute
To the man who coined
The Greed is Good League
Brian Glanville
Poet and connoisseur
Of football’s greatest moments
Picked from the grapes
Of […]

Welcome to Anfield, to its Pantomime.
We have won the Title… it’s party time.
But the atmosphere turned dark and sour.
This change happened just after the hour.

So, what caused this change of moo […]

Yesterday the Foxes were
Foraging in the Forest
Rustling amid the
Stunningly manicured
Green grass
Of the City Ground
When the predatory
Jamie Vardy
Leicester’s liveliest
Stole the limelight
In these […]

Half Time at Anfield, at every game.
We saw the vendor with a deadly aim.
In front of The Kop, he made his way.
Hanging from his neck, a goodies tray!

What a thankless task, lay ahead of him.
This guy had […]

So it is that English football
Takes its leave of Europe
Picking up its passport and
Luggage at the Gare du Nord
Arsenal fall at the semi final hurdle
The Champions League slips from their grasp
Just a […]

I’ve always loved rivalry and debate.
But I’ve never felt the need to hate.
Laugh at your rivals and banter is fine.
But it’s just a game, don’t cross the line.
We are all similar people, deep inside. […]

When you think that far back, games are framing devices
for otherwise lost days’ part-salvaged films

such as the one in late December ’93 –
I’ll call it Black Country Mince Pies –
in a Sierra Sapphire up the […]

So spare a sorrowful thought
For the team and teams
Drifting helplessly near trickling
Streams, washed up
Hurt and wounded too
Like the careworn shoe
At the bottom of the Football League
Wandering the […]

{‘always support the underdog’

There’s always a match on somewhere

A United playing City
Villa against the Wanderers

Counties facing Rovers. And if there isn’t
You can watch the highlights from yesterd […]

Final game of the season
nails bitten to the quick,
will we be on cloud nine
or just left feeling sick ?
The CBS Arena will be rocking
a packed out sea of sky blue,
they’re up against the Boro
and a win […]

And so it came to pass
An explosion of rejoicing
A cascading torrent of celebration
Ecstasy in excelsus
Merseyside rules OK
Scousers jumping and jiving with joy
Liverpool win the Premier League
For the 20th […]

In Heaven, did you hear the Kopites roar?
Liverpool FC, are Champions once more!
We won it at a canter…it’s not even May.
So to Yew Tree Cemetery, I made my way.
A bunch of red flowers, I left at Dad […]

Anfield roared, the banners flew
Spurs in town, the title due
For Ange, all this a boyhood dream
Now faced the might of Slot’s Red team

Solanke rose, the old ties strong
A headed goal, a jarring song
Yet L […]

So here we are on the verge
Of vibrancy and vivacity
Monumental triumph
Epic victory
It’s FA Cup semi final weekend
Could it be Forest
Foraging among the chaotic profusion
Of thousands of grand, imposing […]

The expression
“Football lost its soul”
is very very old

It has been repeated for years

Who knows how old it is
1/4 of 21st Century had gone

But whatever is the soul of football now
the football fan […]

Oh what a Good Friday morning
For the English contingent
In European fields of
Burnished brass and
Glorious gold
Last night it was Spurs
And not forgetting Manchester United
Who now find themselves
On […]

Nothing came easy, 15/4/89 the date.
For every bit of truth, they made us wait.
Stuck together like glue, skilled in lying.
The first lie was told as fans were dying.

Duckenfield said fans stormed the […]

‘Please help us Policeman, help us please.

Don’t turn your back, walk away or freeze.

My friend needs help, he’s gasping for air.

He’s just a young lad, he needs your care’

‘Move back’ you s […]