Football Poets

Portsmouth’s old High Street in Eighteen Ninety-Eight
Legacies were made in these pledging of deeds,
A field of potatoes to this place of dreams.
Years of victories from this April 5th date.

Up for the c […]

Oh for the heady aroma of
Being top of the Premier League
The best team in the Football League
West Ham United
But albeit so sadly briefly
It was always the story
Once top of the old First Division
During […]

Lack of quality in the final third,
Is the one phrase I wish I’d never heard.
Trotted out by pundits lost for words,
The useful and useless so casually blurred.

Quality player, quality ball,
Peter please s […]

Transfer deadline day
Windows open then shut
Once Harry Redknapp was
Always a model of punctuality
Winding down his window
On a million souls
Car parked conveniently
In case Neymar
Turned up out of the […]

we gazed enchanted here at home
as swept along each day
through early morning matches
on evenings far away
we sensed a #Me Too moment
a raised and valiant fist
the tournament that ebbed and flowed
until the […]

We’re selling young Bob to Chelsea
A deal has been proposed
But when the media ask, how much he cost
We’ll say it’s Undisclosed.

We won’t mention the carried injury
Our team doctor diagnosed
And if the tax […]

Tuesday night football, but it feels like you’re cheating
when the air in front of your face doesn’t fog up, just breathing.
But there we were, a balmy 18 degrees,
sky blushing pink over the JR,
six hun […]

Erling Haaland
The ultimate accolade
Recognised by his admiring
Peers, colleagues united
In mutual appreciation
PFA men’s players player
Of the year
Tungsten steel and thunder
In his centre forward’s […]

Of course I’m dreaming
The most optical of all
Illusions
West Ham are top
Of the Premier League
Please give me some smelling salts
You have to be joking
Time for the court jester
To jump onto medieval […]

I know what you’re thinking, Hoops;
Two games in… two painful losses;
ahead of Bromley, but points are equal,
a brace from Parker spares our blushes
and off the bottom keeps us.

Forty-four games still t […]

So, Rochdale at home, and there’s a lot to unpack,
(a tough one today, but I think we missed Zac…)

we kept a good shape, pretty strong at the back,
(but, still, we were definitely missing Zac…),

we moved […]

I can’t wait.
I cannot wait for that groaning clunk as the turnstile spins and spits us out,
and the Saturday crowd all mills about
at Court Place Farm.
I can’t wait.
I cannot wait to be queueing for tea at […]

The day has come, boys;
a long grey morning; fans gathering;
bus departing and a thousand radios crackling…
a-hundred-and-forty-one years
(if you want that added pressure)
that have led to what is h […]