Football Poets

Days to go before
The arrival of
A marathon
On our doorstep
Claret and blue
Beads of anxiety
Pour from beleaguered
Brows of sweat
Summer dwindling
And the hopes
Of West Ham
In dizzying confusion
A […]

~ England 0-0 Nigeria (4-2 pens)

rollercoaster time
second best and down to ten
Kelly sees us through

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~ Australia 2-0 Denmark ~

Bold Matidas shine
Danes go out without a […]

They’ll never know how much we love ’em.
Never know how much we care.
But when they step out on the Hallowed Turf,
We get a feeling that’s beyond compare.

They give us Fever, in the p.m.,
Fever under […]

So football resumes in the lower sculleries
While the butlers and cooks downstairs
Work themselves into the ground
Porters and proletariat
Can only gaze with admiration
At the insanely wealthy elite
In the […]

Meet in the pub before the match
talk football over a beer,
then sink a few more
as the ground is ever so near.
Meet in the pub before the match
just got in before the heavy rain,
time to drink some pints […]

~ South Korea 1-1 Germany ~

Auf Wiedersehen Pet

South Korea defy the odds

Germany are gone

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~ Morocco 1-0 Columbia ~

in the streets and fields

from Tangiers to […]

You can feel it in the bones
Your red and white blood cells
Your leucocytes, your hormones
And chromosomes
Football in your face again
Overwhelmingly in
Charge of proceedings
Half times, kick offs
Corner […]

~ China 1-6 England ~

Lionesses purr

roaring through to last sixteen

Lauren James sublime

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~ Haiti 0-2 Denmark ~

Harder shines for Danes

Haiti leave with heads […]

~ Canada 0-4 Australia ~

waltzing on they go
bold Matildas find their best
Canada are out

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~ Ireland 0-0 Nigeria ~

flying safely through
Super Falcons battle on
Ireland […]

We’re back in the year of 1966
and I’m just a young lad,
watching the World Cup Final
on the telly with my mum and dad.
It’s England v West Germany
my dad’s drinking a bottle of beer,
I’m lying down on the […]

I’ll write on my own

I’ll write on my own – whatever

I’ll write on my own

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~ Germany 1-2 Columbia ~

history is made

brave Columbia hit late

to stun […]

~ England 1-0 Denmark ~

stunning strike from James

sees the Lionesses home

China lie in wait ~

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~ France 2-1 Brazil ~

Renard nod for France

steers them past a slick […]

Oh for those rumours
Whispers in clandestine
Behind the scenes
Rooms of bleary eyed
Bewilderment
Could somebody enlighten us
This is the moment
Where football jumps
Onto that same bandwagon
The land of […]

Time stood still at my home in Sarajevo

The BBC WORLD Service announced
“PAT NEVIN, a goal for Everton!”

I started a delirious celebration on February 9 1991
when PAT scored in the Merseyside Derby

I […]

It’s not just the players getting fit
for a new campaign that’s nearly here,
many supporters are also in training
ready for all those pies and beer.
They’ll be having pre – season sessions
exercising to get […]

Shocked to the core
Trevor Francis
An England legend now
Passes into historic lore
Sadly no longer with us
At 69, tragically young
A gentleman through
And through
Above the decadence
Of the nightclub […]

one more legend gone

suave and clinical always

Forest through and through ~

rusty or off form?

Lionesses underwhelm

Haiti look the biz ~

so this is it – morning in July here
Winter in Sydney now… nine hours ahead
a celebration of the Women’s Game
a record crowd all wrapped in scarves
a waiting stadium excited for the night
what’s not […]