Football Poets

You must remember those days of yore
When we were the burgeoning age of four
On the streets and roads
Where we unlocked the codes
Of youth and childhood
Or maybe we could
In rags and clothes with […]

We’ll start with chairman Arthur WAITE
Who built us our New Stand
Got us up to the Old First in 69
And had the Palace future planned.

Then our Jewish winger Mark LAZURUS
Who down the right would cause s […]

Now Yesterday Macca
Rolled back the years
To misty decades
Of 1960s decadence
When excess and
Beatlemania ruled
The world and
Sir Paul McCartney
Was a young and fertile mind
With designs on […]

There’s a lot going on, out on the pitch
To-ing and fro-ing
Scenting and marking
A multitude of personal battles
As they hunt the ball

Look at this pair –
Chasing down the line
Shoulder to s […]

Now here’s the latest on
The incessant rumour mill
Albania’s finest
But probably no
Relation to Norman Wisdom
Where he was worshipped
Like some cultural hero
West Ham now think
Their prayers have been […]

The day I found out I was leaving,
no-one told me. It was on Ceefax, page 302:
I’m off to Bristol City!

Maybe it’s time to ride the Severn Bore
to Gloucester from Sharpness
in tomorrow’s dusk and […]

Summertime dreams
Lounging by lethargic sun beams
Football finds its transfer speculation
For constant illumination
Without expectation
Claret and blue anticipation
You have to be joking
Amid the languid […]

It’s like coming home
Opening the fixture list
Checking who we play first
Then looking when we play them blue noses
The hopes and dreams new season bring
Ignite my soul as I count down to that first g […]

Never really knew my mother’s father.
All I remember: tuft of nostril hair,
spied from sitting on his knee; hoard
of half-hidden threepenny pieces
slipped into a sandpit outside the lido.

In pictures he l […]

Oh go on
One more time
Before we shut up shop
And lock up until
August
Football’s temporary
Holiday home
Must have its place in
The wider scheme of
Things
We must hope
Tonight Hungary
Will satisfy […]

Football now almost at
The heights of summer
When cricket blades
And tennis rackets
Shimmered through
The haze in a stunned daze
Last night Italy and England
Meet up in a revolving door
Haven’t they met […]

Cazoo and the Toffees agreed to part.
“Great!” I thought, “We can make a fresh start.”
But this new Sponsor deal
Is a Stake through my heart.

It’s World Cup year
But this time at a
Time bizarrely close
To mince pie, turkey
And brussel sprout
Family gatherings
And bibulous booze
Festivities
The wine of the day
The lager of the […]

Way back some years ago
in the year of 1953,
came the mighty Magyars
the national team of Hungary.
The press ridiculed their star player
saying “he’s too heavy to play the game”
but that footballer was a […]

Now Thomas Hardy
182 today. Hard to believe
Somehow. Time flies
But England’s finest lyricist
Or word painter, consummate
Novelist, literary genius
You wonder which football
Ground, Dorset lad
Giving rise […]

No Hendo shuffle…no Number 7 to show.

But two domestic Cups, softens the blow!

Last nights game, just wasn’t meant to be.

But still a brilliant Season, you must agree!

It was no mean feat taking […]

For the first time in history in the third tier
Some misguided souls thought there’d be nothing to fear
As we sang to ourselves that we weren’t really here
Away trips to some truly grisly dives
Against opp […]