Football Poets

Twas Christmas Day in the workhouse
Or maybe not
And Boxing Day in the
Kosher jam doughnut factory
For Chanukah
Last candles of uplifting light
And yet on Christmas Day
When once the trains ran
And […]

one club man our George

gentlemanly on and off

his old Cottage pitch ~

Oh no. Not another one
And then there were two
George Cohen
Slips peacefully and modestly
From our radar
Into the football heaven
Where the rest of the 66
World Cup brotherhood
Have now been laid to […]

I wrote nothing of the footy on the pitch.
I wrote about the greed and the filthy rich.
On the pitch upsets, meant nothing to me.
I wrote about the spineless and liars to see.

Not a word […]

Wow, now that was a World Cup Final to treasure
For eternity, a football masterpiece
Defying superlatives, pronouns
Metaphors, similes
The laws of gravity almost
Since the Empyrean heights
Have been reached […]

Wembley you’ve been livin’ hell to me
with your Hanger Lane gyratory
traffic for no reason, regardless of the season,
and the IKEA cafe’s run out of lingonberry.

Wembley, I hate every inch of you.
Your […]

Colourful expletives pierced the air
After witnessing a scene said, geezer write…
Reminded of committed halcyon days
A sly dig in the ribs, a clump, affrays
Agin a whizz-kid, HP boots chalk dusted […]

Carefree…plagued by player injury
We are the famous WW.C(rocked).F.C
Another bod hits the sod, gets up looking lame,
Gaffer said, ”Best bell, Kev,
Get that spring chicken out a bedH
Maybe he’s free Satad […]

whose ground this is I surely know
unrecognizable in snow
and I my glee can barely hide
to find these gates all open wide
my little dog must think it strange
to stop with neither fan nor game
he gives his […]

Back from Brazil and Rio
And the high seas
The land of samba and sensuality
My lovely wife and I
Where the arcadian rhythms
Of South American dance
And music hugged the Copacabana
But this year the boys […]

SF1: MmmmMessi

Messi’s magical masterclass…
More memorable than most?
Mesmeric in front of the masses
Mercurial medallist dumbfounds (immoral) host

Morocco’s momentum
Offers a modicum of optim […]

Southgate, Waddle, Pearce and Kane.
AKA, The four horsemen o’ the missed spot-kick
Are being lined up in brown paper bags, if their egos fit?
To advertise Pizza Hut, in a lucrative comedy skit
Oh my…what an […]

Shakespeare in living memory
Miroslav Krleza in living memory
Mladen Delic in living memory
Croatia always
Samba during the World Cup
Josip Broz Tito somewhere in memory

Shakespeare inspires us
Miroslav […]

On another day…an able Kane
Could have, would have won the game
After all a second pen? Is a cinch, a cert, a doddle?
Alas, the England skipper blew his chance,
Of extra time against a fast-fading F […]

Sat 10/12/2022
France 2-1 England

For me, that was even stevens
Two great teams, giving it their all
Just what you want
When it comes to the very best of football

But then….
Where there’s nothing to cho […]

Who wants to lead the Tour de France
Or Fifteen Hundred Metres?
Who wants to head the Marathon,
And seem like a world-beater?

How ’bout top spot in Premiership,
In Serie A or B?
I tell you, in the […]

I am not watching football
I am listening the live Radio commentaries
That is Radio Zagreb 2
outside of home
At the street
Croatia equalised at the
end of the Extra time
to shock Brazil and theirs […]

Messi, Messi, Messi,
Bless he, bless he, bless he
Guess he, guess he, guess he
Doesn’t need advice from me!

And when you draw breath and think about it
A misplaced pass from Messi
Is about as commonplace […]

After the penalties
between Croatia
and Japan I was
repeating the names
Livakovic Liverpool
Now Brazil lost
I don t know
after Brazil Croatia
penalties
what to sing
Is Livakovic now
in this […]

There was a young fella named Bertie
Whose predilection didn’t include Gertie(s)
He went to Qatar
They found him bizarre
And now he’s banged up watching CR7 get shirty!