Football Poets

Kleen-sheet keeper Kepa
Breeched three times
Down near Brighton Beach.

Dumped on by The Sea-Gulls
All at sea defensively
Three points…drift out o’ reach.

“Oi ref! Change goalie?”, makes no dif […]

There’s no Heathcliff pulling on his boots
And Rochester does not aim to shoot
Three sisters may well be cheering from the stand
But not the Brontes, Charlotte, Emily or Anne
But the wind it whittles as it […]

Now here’s a word or two
To you all on Football Poets
Waxing lyrical superbly so
Yours truly now in print
The book is called Football’s Poetic Licence
Let the mind set you free
On the highway to football’s […]

migrant workers meagre wages
lacking in support
dying in the searing heat
in the name of sport
all are welcome so they claim
we know that’s not true
there’s no understanding
of LGBTQ
women made to live […]

“T’was a fabulous left-footer Mateo…l have to say…
Streaking forward, to score a goal, fit to win any game
Though I barely recognised you…fully clothed after Saturday”,
T’was a flash o’ pure brilliance…excu […]

I knew it would happen; we missed the window.
Our boat didn’t come in and nor did we swim to it.

Our chairman had a month at Cowes Week.
The vice-president got trapped in industrial brioche,
was stuck in […]

So it is that we learn
That Rishi Sunak is a Saint
Southampton through and through
Preaching the gospel of those
Who pay their hard- earned cash
At St Mary’s
Angelic, a paragon of virtue
Always early for […]

Hordes o’ screaming travelling Manc’s
Agog, up in The Gods stood giving thanks
When that last gasp header crept in on full-time
Appeared mysteriously dumb-struck
At a partner, girl-friend, wife, sister, mum […]

A ruse to suss-out her current beau
Brede asked him would he like to go…
“Over The Bridge”, to pay homage to the chaps
“You mean…you’re like a die-hard Chelsea fan?”,
“S’right babe, bleating proud of it I am […]

I would opine
much more online
but…

“password not accepted”

so I try password this
password that
password another
but I even forget
the maiden name of my mother!

And so I switch
from the ether […]

We always had a soft spot for
Leyton Orient
Claret and blue neighbours
Do come in for an amiable chat
Banter over the garden fence
West Ham and Leyton Orient
Derby by close proximity
But always with […]

Ah, those Clapham Common morning games
Getting stuck in…to likewise puny frames
A crunching tackle, deemed bravado, sport or fun
The restraint a combatant need show
To dealing a fitter young fella…The E […]

The deja vu mentality
At Anfield, yet never
Felt like singing the blues
For claret and blue
Choristers, resignation
Mapped on their faces
Like the last spots of pink
Of the empire,
West Ham denied […]

It rarely garners plaudits
it often ushers pain
those masters of the darkest art
who waste our time again
the dragging to the corner flag
that Shangri-La of spaces
the long slow walk to be replaced […]

The Hand of God ball
is up for grabs!
To be auctioned
to the highest bidder.

And because he is no longer with us
it won’t go to the maximal fibber!
(God bless his memory
for Diego is footballing d […]

There was a time when football mags
Fixtures and ladders and then the tags
Needed literature of the finest words
Thursday mornings with those serenading birds
It was Shoot for all seasons
For no particular […]

The ball for football game is missing for
The Angels, The Noah
The first woman Eve
and all our friends from The Scriptures

Nowhere they played the footbal
The most beatiful game

But the football […]

Even if your owner’s an eco millionaire
When the bubble bursts a bit you learn to fight despair
Remembering that months ago we had ourselves a time
Cheering dancing in the stands the champagne flowed […]

Still the Gunners bring
Out the cavalry and infantry
A battalion of the battle hardened
Red blooded in method
And intent
Today rolling back
The years to Cup Finals
Of 1950 and 71
When Liverpool were […]