Football Poets

Oh what a claret and blue relief
You can almost see the puffed cheeks
West Ham safe from relegation
But quite the most horrendous ordeal
We can see quite clearly
From afar but long enough
To appreciate human […]

He holds out his hands,
says they are sore every day.
Old knuckles so swollen,
he’s never worn a ring.

No protection like now,
gloves thinner back then
those stitched leather footballs,
weighted with r […]

A slow moving weather system,
burdened by a week of brooding, low-lying
internet traffic will break or settle
in the pre-match huddle.

Straining my eyes; who is that team?
They were so far gone from the […]

Oh! Wow, wonderment
Incredulity here
And now
Suspended belief
A mirage surely
West Ham, Prague
Bound, Euro Conference
Finalists
Fornals flying solo
A winner to preserve
In historic perpetuity
Claret […]

Bernado Battered Bayern
Militao Mauled Madrid
Now Grealish gets Inter Milan!

I scanned my ticket at Selhurst Park,
cranked through the turnstiles
and heard the steward ask,
How many games have you seen this season?
Well, I said,

I’ve been everywhere, man.
I’ve been everywhere, man […]

Southend United out of the Football League
It hardly seems possible but it’s true
The hard facts of life
Under those harsh lights of
Unwelcome publicity and
Yesterday’s fish and chip paper
Literature where […]

The Sky Blues are in the play offs
up against Middlesbrough on Sunday,
the CBS Arena will be rocking
can the City go all the way ?
Coventry City have hit good form
lively up front, solid at the back,
Hamer […]

Well, Peter Osgood was good –
Of Stamford Bridge The King.
But Kenny was more regal,
All Koppites will insist.

And then there’s that skilled Belfast Boy,
Whose family name was Best.
Had he been […]

People try to put me down,
Talkin’ ’bout my Coronation.
Just because I wear a crown.
Talkin’ ’bout my Coronation.

Then they claim I’m far too old,
Talkin’ ’bout my Coronation.
And I cost my weight […]

Will you come to De Ferrari, will you come?
Not a shadow of a doubt that you’ll have fun.
There’ll be thousands in that Square,
If you have some time to spare,
You should come to De Ferrari, you should […]

God save our gracious King,
That’s what we kopites sing,
God save our King……
He made us victorious,
All those goals glorious,
Long to be one of us,
God save our King.

Nerves all jittery and fraught
fingernails chewed to the quick,
this is the lot of the football fan
end of the season and feeling sick.
One minute you’re staying up
the next on the way down,
that big smile […]

Osim passed away
a year ago
When I was a boy
Osim faced
Bobby Robson’s England team
Within 20 minutes
England were 4-0 up
in that game in 1987
Beardo Beardsley scored
the first
But his Yugoslavia team in […]

Let’s consider certain beers:
Carlsberg Lager,
Watney’s Red Barrel,
DD (K9P).
These brews are quite undrinkable.

Now ponder on some other things:
One’s own death,
A Tory win at the next General […]

It was the place
Our second home in
Suburbia
Or that grandiose
Home in the country
Unspoilt by time
Wembley Stadium
100 years old
You don’t look a day
Over 21,
As youthful as the first
Buds of […]

We suspected as much
Claret and blue
Beaten by Merseyside
Show boaters again
This time at the London Stadium
Grandstanding gadabouts
Liverpool nudge open creaking door
Back into Europe
But not into the […]

The miller’s fans have rolled into town,
convinced that they’re not going down.
There’s Azza, Mitchell, Mark and Bushy,
Richard, Mick, Dave; don’t forget Dalby.
They’re a long way south of Millmoor […]

Wrexham, Wrexham
Hollywood, Hollywood,
In the same sentence
Roll the cameras
Welcome back to
Glitz and glamour
Ryan Reynolds
Turn Wrexham
Into a movie blockbuster
A global franchise
Popcorn all […]

Yesterday, the nation stopped
Its hustle bustle, its frantic
Pace of life
To pay its respects to those
Who so painfully lost theirs
Hillsborough 1989,
A memorial stone in our hearts
The day English […]