Football Poets

Where once trawlers followed seagulls
And poetry met philosophy
Eric Cantona
Quite suddenly
Avant garde bohemian
French chanteur
Overnight pop singer
It is beyond credibility
But this man is the […]

He travelled over from Dortmund to manage the Pool
And the boys on the Kop thought, “This guy looks pretty cool”
With his heavy metal football and baseball cap
He came across as a rather endearing chap
But for […]

SPION KOP
“In 1903 we stood on Spion Kop
Clattering our hob-nail boots against the wall”
My grand-dad recollected this for me
When he was eighty, in Nineteen Sixty Three
Remembering a centre-half called Joe […]

And now for something
Completely different
Startling and totally
Unexpected
Spurs are top of the
Premier League
Gasps of astonishment
On the Richter scale
Colossal shifting of
Tectonic plates
Surely […]

Thunderous shooting that transcended his era.
Maybe you have to be a certain age.
When they announced it during the game
the crowd of six hundred
barely reacted. No gasps or murmurs.
My son shrugged, […]

Oh the heavens are weeping
The angels softly plucking on
Harps of Mancunian hymns
Of the ultimate eulogy
The one we were dreading
Back in dear old Blighty
Please tell us that Sir Bobby
Has not left the […]

So there it was
Italian job complete
The doors have been
Emphatically blown up
Not a sight or sound
Of Benny Hill or
Michael Caine
Trattorias and pizzerias
Have served their customers
And football’s […]

the strength and power in his boot
from near or far when he would shoot
the many times I saw him play
at countless games back in the day
the archetypal number nine
who stays a legend for all time

the […]

Someone was watching Charlton in the Sixties
Someone was watching Lampard in the Noughties
Someone was watching Best in the Sixties
Someone was watching Beckham in the Noughties
Someone was watching […]

A spring evening,
bats flit the warm twilight.
Enjoying the swarm,
feeding on the excitement,
chants echo under the floodlights.

A ravenous crowd, and
the biggest gathering ever.
Roosted to the rafters, […]

anyone who’s been here
anyone at all
anyone who loves their club
loves them rise or fall
if you’re superstitious
if you have a dream
you endure the ups and downs
following your team
when you’re on a los […]

Oh those wombats and koalas
Kangaroos too
The great Don
Bradman, stunning
Knight of the realm
Waltzing Matilda
From way back when
And now Australia Advance Fair
We gave your boys one a hell of a […]