Football Poets

So there it is
Southampton relegated
From the Premier League
Oh woe by the South Coast
Too late to boast
Conclusive proof
That those in the Championship
Were far too aloof
Could never quite hack […]

I was told this today, of which I wasn’t aware.
Liverpool’s Croxteth Park, my Dad went there!
With his Niece Janet, my Dad went to play.
To think, I was in Croxteth Park the other day!
They played foo […]

In Season 65/66…in came a new law.
It changed English footy for evermore.
If an injured player could no longer play.
A substitute player could ‘enter the fray’

Barrow’s Bobby Knox, in this new role. […]

There used to be a time when
Two points for a win
Meant pleasure personified
At 5.00 on Saturday afternoon
When Pools coupons represented
Eight draws and
Satisfaction guaranteed
And James Alexander […]

Look at me
in my thirty-two panels

designed for touch
and to be more magical.

My hexagon and perfection
pentagons

have made me a black-and-white
football icon.

So, get me over […]

You may be a miner working down a pit.
You may be a rock star playing sold out gigs.
You may be a fireman putting out a blaze.
You may be an inmate chalking off the days.

But you gotta support […]

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The Kop cover The Beatles and Cilla Black.
Give me a time machine, I wanna go back!
The accent is one, the accent is scouse.
Not a tourist to be seen in the house!

Working class scousers, t […]

Howl a tribal scream
Feel like a mighty mountain
The net bulged for us!

Groan of anguished soul
Seared heart plunges to cold feet
The net bulged for them…

So the Geordie boys have done it
Finally, at long last
Climbing aboard the winners
Victorious podium
Acclaimed Carabao Cup winners
We feared it would never happen
Ever again
Rejected, snubbed and […]

The old Kop I loved as a young fan.
26 thousand Reds in a sardine can!
I started out in the lofty Boys Pen.
Along with lots of middle aged men!

But in 71’ a full time Kopite I became.
Liverpool v F […]

“No puede ser”
Julian Alvarez from the
spot…
The Waste Wanda Land
the Penalty taken and the goal denied
Although many neutral
football lovers can
enjoy Madrid Invincibility
The Waste Wanda […]

With the first crocuses and snowdrops
Poised for Spring renaissance
The Premier League hits the final fences
Of the imminent football
Grand National
Beechers Brook and the Chair
Formidable obstacles
But […]

Frank Lampard new coach
replaced Robins a legend
fans undecided.
But play offs now on
Frank’s name sung loud at matches
he’s turned things around.
Chelsea superstar
yet had so many critics
but doing […]

There’s a new build housing estate
in all our cities and towns.
On sites of factories and warehouses
for stuff we don’t make any more.
Places of toil, unloved and forgotten
working all hours just to pay som […]

Today it’s Hammers against the Gunners
If only we could turn back the
Clock to 1980 when spritely spring
Sunshine bathed our dreams
And varnished our hopes
FA Cup Final day
45 years ago
Was it really that […]

I don’t want my players pressing
Or trying to do the block
To hell with your false number nines
And players falling with each knock.
You can keep your inside wing backs
Your sixty minute subs
Players g […]

The Reds were celebrating,
All primed and set to party.
They thought they had the match wrapped up,
They’d reckoned without Tarky.

The game was drawing to a close,
Just seconds on the clock.
The […]

This Universe
is that one book
Yes
And one football result
both have the Meaning

There is only one Catch
Catch 22

And there is only once
last ever Goodison Mersey Derby
Two Two

We always knew John Bunyan
Had something
Pilgrims progress
Astonishingly in the FA Cup
And to think
Sir Francis Drake
Only popped over for
A game of bowls
Plymouth Argyle
In the fifth round of the FA […]