Football Poets

If not for you, I would never have made it to training, or to the match, or to the trials
If not for you, I would never have read my first word from the back page of your newspaper (Chelsea… and there began m […]

I’m out all day and night
battered by sun,wind,and rain,
yet even though I’m weather beaten
I’m always ready for the new campaign.
I’ve had humans run all over me
so I must have a masochistic streak,
but […]

the People’s Games is distant now
they’ve redesigned our game
it’s like there’s just the Premier League
and nothing else remains
I can’t believe it’s happ’ning
they’re taking it away
there must be […]

Fellow Football Bards
Certainly no yellow or
Red cards
It’s a privilege to be in
Your company
To all of my fellow
Football Poets
You’re all brilliant
And exceptional

And so we kick off yet again
After 120 plus years of hostility,
Adversity and truly
Remarkable achievements
Picture postcards of triumphant
League titles and horrific
Promotion and relegation
Pain and […]

Like excited families
Counting down the last
Days of the old year
Smiling and laughing
At the prospect of the New Year
The new football season
Is back again
Out with the past
Welcoming the future
Good […]

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The Lionesses proved they are the Best.
Much better than the men are they by far.
Now here’s a thought that’s come into my head:
Could we not send these Lasses to Qatar? […]

I, I will be Earps
And you, you can be Toone
Then nothing, nothing can stand in our way
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be heroes , for more than one day.

The visiting Pachuca fans, in masks
like pagan worshippers, believed that fate
would favor Mexico The minutes passed
away and still they led on aggregate
but we were sixty thousand strong, […]

Oh, let’s hear it for the ladies
A thousand hosannas,
Male gratitude and relief
At long last
The drinks are on the
Men of fallibility
And 56 years of
Utter bewilderment
And defeat, defeat
After yet […]

Always a lovely song
that plucked at the heartstrings.
But over the years it took on
a melancholy, mournful note.
So many disappointments,
hands of God, penalty shoot-outs,
racist abuse on social […]

It was 56 years ago
Today and nothing since
England win their only
World Cup, to the day
When memories were children
But now lost in the mists
Of time, like an ancient
Crisp bag or bottle of pop
Like a […]

And so we remember the passing
Of an Irish legend
On the cusp of his octogenarian
Pride of place
Within the marbled halls of
Arsenal’s Highbury
Terry Neill, a yeoman of the
Guard, a sterling defender
A […]

THE ROUT
The keeper leaning on his goalpost calls

to his full backs: ‘Boys, let’s stay alert!’
They turn, yawn at him and kick the dirt
Still, the tall one cups his hand and yells:
‘Don’t lose yer focus!’ t […]

Remember Brian Glover in Kes? The teacher
imagining he’s Bobby Charlton, United v Spurs?
This bloke was something similar.

Me and my brother were drinking
at the Spanish campsite pool bar. He told u […]