Football Poets

The season is now in it’s final stages
excitement and apprehension abound,
some supporters feeling confident
while others are worried inside the ground.
Will their team get promoted
even become champions […]

Oh well you can’t always win them
Since the heady, dizzy euphoria of
Europa League conquests
Over Sevilla, brings claret and blue
West Ham infantry plummeting
Down to earth
Spurs, yes Spurs
It had to be […]

The stars were aligned
The moon was in the right
Position, Venus and Mercury
Were the perfect planets
Now football galaxies
And West Ham were through
To the last eight of
The Europa League
It hardly […]

“You have something more
than a team”
said Swindon’s Harold Fleming to Chapman
in the early 20th century

The expression “more than a team”
appeared in England when
the Northampton player-manager
Herbert […]

City still top.
City still on course for
Back to back Premier
League titles
Without even playing
Where Chelsea seem
To be playing Russian roulette
Where the stakes are high
And money dictates the […]

‘Some people think that football
is a matter of life and death …’

I was a Chelsea supporter
for 40 years before
the Roman empire.

Fan is short for fanatic.
Empires fall. Football’s
nowhere near
as […]

How much money do you really need
Is it market forces or just plain greed
How many Ferraris in the drive
The constant snort of I ME MINE

When will your pot of sporting gold
Manifest in terms of stay or […]

A little message to our Egyptian king Mo.
If it’s all down to wages, then please go.
When so rich, what’s a few extra grand?
Just be happy at the best club in the land!

Ignore your agent, make up your own […]

You’ll never know how much you mean to me, dad
I loved you deeply and always will
And yet could never appreciate the visceral thrill
Although you never wore the football clothes
Of today and tomorrow’s shows […]

There’s a war in Yemen
But does anybody care
There’s a war in Yemen
Near a million disappeared

Alan Shearer makes his comments
Ukraine’s plight has left him shocked
But he sings a different toon
For […]

We are romantic about football
Eulogising our heroes
Those chivalrous gallant knights of the pitch
But when the smoke of love disperses
And we look and see
Those football boots of clay
Caked in the mud […]

We await, with baited breath
The deal of the decade
Nay, the deal of our history

We await, on pain of death
For a shining knight
To gallop to our rescue

We await, and all while, understand
How beyond […]

Yet more European assignments
For the men in claret and blue
This time in the middle of orange
Groves in succulent sweet
Seville or Sevilla
The juiciest of ties
With little in the way
Of pips but the […]

10/03/2022. The British Government adds Roman Abramovich to their sanctions list.
“It’s multi-layered, it’s huge and it affects every little area of the club.
It’s cataclysmic for Chelsea. It’s unprece […]

They came to the reebok and rode out their luck
Morecambe so wise as the wanderers came unstuck
The shrimps parked the bus right in front of our goal
And prevented our players from scoring a shoal.

Chance […]

Here is a story that’s directed
To all football fans who believe
That their team is the best and above all the rest
And regularly under achieve.

When you struggle with a donkey centre forward
Who couldn’t b […]

the half time news is sad and long
the bombing and the war goes on
you start to feel it’s bad and wrong
to watch a football game
to see the skills of some new star
to carry on the way we are
while in a c […]