Football Poets

Not long to go now
Tomorrow the Lionesses
Gather their pride together
Suitably leonine
Fiercely surveying
The Aussie outback
Where the koala and wombat
Seek sanctuary
From the England girls
With World Cup […]

It was like that angst in the chest you mentioned, but then it exploded.

My ‘self’ was in a hundred fragments.All I had was a bed and a skylight,

a window on the incomprehensible.Drifting off, I m […]

after tragedy

Wilkinson fires home to thrill

this great record crowd ~

Come together….
Every man, woman and child
And watch our spirits run free
As we turn football wild!

Let’s take all the shackles off
From playing with precision
And let the hearts dictate the pla […]

You must remember the
Frisson of anticipation
Football once again
Feverish always
Champing at the bit
Longing for its quaintness
The Texaco Cup, the Watney Cup
Football’s pre-season frivolity
The games […]

Tennis cricket golf
The fans are all out in force
Wrong type – new ball please!

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Kit calligraphy
“Subsumes history in hues”
New season coming!

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Numbers – talk to me!
Fantasy squads now […]

we used to be invisible
to some perhaps a joke
reserved for those whose daughters played
the rebels and the woke

banished for a hundred years
our game at last expands
but struggles on for backing
in […]

So farewell Dec
We knew the day
Would arrive
Where once trod
The educated feet
Of Bobby and Billy
And now your good self
Firstly we were privileged
To witness the fabled
Mooro and Bonzo who once
Graced […]

Move over gentlemen
The ladies are in the house
World Champions? It could
Be our time and place
So just a whole lot of
Deference and appreciation
For the girls
Already European Champions
This would be the […]

feel it getting closer now
never mind the rain
where they are the sun will shine
as we go again

can we do the business…
can we show the world ?
football is for everyone
ev’ry boy and girl

the past […]

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto is a new signing
to Coventry City he has come,
the clubs first ever japanese player
from the land of the rising sun.
I’ve watched him in action on YouTube
and he does look quality and […]

Declan Rice
For £105 million
I know, it’s an obscenity
A crime against humanity
Millions of starving children
Pleading for their next meal
Football lining its pockets
Once again
Grossly underfunded […]

Start of new season
The pitch looking bright
A pre match day ritual
A Poem Pie and Pint

A glossy new programme
Like dreams newly born
Wrap banners with wishes.
A new day will dawn.

The players now […]

Iggy has a Lust for Life
I have a lust for the game
Since my initiation
My life has never been the same!

The world is still, silent
Sleeping peacefully
On echoing terraces
Where once the loud and tribal
Voices of unrest and agitated
Thoughts thrust out the arias
Of victory and defeat
Now reduced to […]

The Toffees have unearthed a Diamond,
Playing in the Swedish League.
“Or maybe the Norwegian one?”
“No, Danish, I believe.”

He’s built like that proverbial House
That’s made of solid brick.
A man for […]

Jack, always the town planner,
is interested in the wind turbine
that can be seen from the ground
as well as the old terrace houses,
and fatalistic about the enormous
estate pub boarded up
for more than a […]