Football Poets

Wanderers fans divided
Ian Evatt is to blame
Fans are going mental
Because we don’t win every game
But many have a solution
They think they know it all
Then get them to the training ground
with a track s […]

So in five years hence
Across the fence
Home Counties
With prolific bounties
Football comes together
Hell for leather
The UK and Ireland
On the domestic island
In 2028 they’ll gather
In their […]

So North London
Reigns supreme
Rivalry intensified
The fires of antagonism
Leaping flames and pouring
Smoke gushing forth
From the Tottenham Hotspur
Stadium and the Emirates
Arsenal and Spurs level […]

Is more than a postcode,
more than a famous stadium,
with steel riveted girders,
and those mock Tudor beams.
There is more to this place,
than Archibald Leitch,
a stand on each touchline,
and blue plastic […]

Uh-oh. The world’s gone pear-shaped.
I have a feeling that I’m close to home,
or at least the train. Too old for this
malarkey. Was doing so well. Now
I’m all over the place, lost count,
head swimming. This […]

Colin Harvey
His unique perspective

The dream and joy of his
San Siro at the begining

I am Pablo Neruda

Colin is Hemingway

I am oversea Evertonian

Euston Station in the morning
Lime Street […]

Rangers in the
Champions League

I am reading Archibald Cronin

The autumn of 1992

Somewhere I am shaken
by the shelling of the city

Rangers in the Champions League

I am reading Archibald […]

27th October 1990
Luton v Everton

In the heart of things
My Everton banner

Somewhere in Bosnia
EARLY 1990’S

People

And my thought about
Luton 1 Everton 1

27th October 1990

We’ll never forget Franny
How could we ever overlook the
Snarl, the growl and bite,
The sound and fury
That physical reaction
When once Franny Lee
Exploded with anger
Seething, simmering
The Baseball […]

The early rounds of the FA Cup
look so frenetic,
but the scale and the range
make it dramatic,
turn it poetic.

Hallam or Irlam
will play
Thackley or Goole, while
City of Liverpool
or Penistone […]

A tense game played out at top volume.
Weeds three feet high,
make tidy play almost impossible.

A pass back short, away from the defender.
A collective lunge,
the ball skids high over our keeper.

Next […]

The FA Cup in September
The FA Cup third qualifying round
Surely a typo
A seasonal anomaly
This has to be our
Imagination working
Overtime
We’ll wake from
Our early morning
Sleepy, soporific torpor
It […]

Hammers against Gunners
Next round of the Carabao Cup
Lethal combination
Could be combustible
But just good friends over
The North and East London divide
For some of us 1980 FA Cup Final
Same result if […]

We’ll play it safe and get there for sunrise.
Driving to Croydon, any day,
is like being at Exeter Services on a Saturday
in August, single file by West Cornwall Pasty.

So when should we leave? When will w […]

Ah, yet another claret and blue
Odyssey into the land of the unknown
Travelling light
Voyages of discovery
West Ham transported into
Yet more European battlegrounds
Passports officially stamped
Luggage […]

In the realm of men’s camaraderie, so strong,
We gather, we bond, and we get along.
We drink together, sharing laughs and cheers,
And face the world,
conquering our fears.
In dressing rooms, our sanctuaries […]