Football Poets

From The Liver Buildings, up high.
Tears, they drip from Bertie’s eye.
Through the red, foggy haze they fall.
Bertie, our Liver Bird, he saw it all.
Bertie protects our City, as you know.
Now in horror, h […]

So there it is done and dusted
Season over,
Cruciate ligaments and
Hamstrings busted
Managers staring at the ground
Searching desperately for a pound
Liverpool enthroned as kings of England
The Premier […]

Those lamentable pundits wrote him off from the start
No bottle, too timid, doesn’t show enough heart
Rejected by Mourinho, labelled a flop
If the special one didn’t rate him he can’t be much cop
He disca […]

Did you realise this…have you heard?
This Footy Season belongs to the Bird.
4 victorious birds upon a team’s crest.
And they left nothing else for the rest!

To Wembley Stadium, a Magpie flew.
And it saw […]

All the way from the Seven Sisters Road
In our humble abode
And right up to the old White Hart Lane
Once again the melodious refrain
You could hear the voices sweetly tuned
No more the festering wound
Like […]

Naive question
Goodison will not be
replaced by hotels
and shops and other buildings

The staduum is kept alive

The Naive question
The ́Naive question
The Naive question
The Naive question

EVERTON […]

It was thirty years ago today,
In a very merry month of May,
We’d been playing all year long with flair,
We were slicker than young Tony Blair,
So we’re calling just to remind you,
That we’re able to […]

And so the world of football literature
Pays homage and tribute
To the man who coined
The Greed is Good League
Brian Glanville
Poet and connoisseur
Of football’s greatest moments
Picked from the grapes
Of […]

Welcome to Anfield, to its Pantomime.
We have won the Title… it’s party time.
But the atmosphere turned dark and sour.
This change happened just after the hour.

So, what caused this change of moo […]

Yesterday the Foxes were
Foraging in the Forest
Rustling amid the
Stunningly manicured
Green grass
Of the City Ground
When the predatory
Jamie Vardy
Leicester’s liveliest
Stole the limelight
In these […]

Half Time at Anfield, at every game.
We saw the vendor with a deadly aim.
In front of The Kop, he made his way.
Hanging from his neck, a goodies tray!

What a thankless task, lay ahead of him.
This guy had […]

So it is that English football
Takes its leave of Europe
Picking up its passport and
Luggage at the Gare du Nord
Arsenal fall at the semi final hurdle
The Champions League slips from their grasp
Just a […]

I’ve always loved rivalry and debate.
But I’ve never felt the need to hate.
Laugh at your rivals and banter is fine.
But it’s just a game, don’t cross the line.
We are all similar people, deep inside. […]

When you think back, games are framing devices
for otherwise lost days’ part-salvaged films
such as the one in late December ‘93 –
I’ll call it Black Country Mince Pies –
in a Sierra Sapphire up the M6
for […]

So spare a sorrowful thought
For the team and teams
Drifting helplessly near trickling
Streams, washed up
Hurt and wounded too
Like the careworn shoe
At the bottom of the Football League
Wandering the […]

{‘always support the underdog’

There’s always a match on somewhere

A United playing City
Villa against the Wanderers

Counties facing Rovers. And if there isn’t
You can watch the highlights from yesterd […]

Final game of the season
nails bitten to the quick,
will we be on cloud nine
or just left feeling sick ?
The CBS Arena will be rocking
a packed out sea of sky blue,
they’re up against the Boro
and a win […]

And so it came to pass
An explosion of rejoicing
A cascading torrent of celebration
Ecstasy in excelsus
Merseyside rules OK
Scousers jumping and jiving with joy
Liverpool win the Premier League
For the 20th […]