Football Poets

So here we are at the business end of
The Premier League, City still
But only marginally ahead
Of the Merseyside cruiser
Liverpool, edging nervously
Past the claret and blue
Marauding armies
West Ham […]

The early April afternoon was glorious.

The daffs were out, I felt Wordsworthian.

You’d come down from York to look

at houses. We caroused that evening

with old friends in the Railway Tavern – […]

None could deny it was deserved
The Hammers were always far too reserved
Wembley and the FA Cup Final
No place for scandal or libel
A far fetched claret and blue dream
Saints elevated as the perfect […]

Kelleher steps up
Alisson sits on the bench
The Cup’s in safe hands.

Chelsea’s Russian revolution

The Roman holiday is over
Abramovich hands the keys
Of Oligarchy and wealthy
Properties over to the warm
Charitable trusts, the
Trustworthy hands of
Loving benevolence […]

The result for me tomorrow takes a back seat.
I won’t lose any sleep over a Cup Final defeat.
Replace our red banners with yellow and blue.
At Wembley dedicate our Anthem to Ukraine too.

Show the […]

Who, or what
could be better than Messi?!?!

well…
try me
bed bound
in the dead of night
under the spotlight
like Walter Mitty
in a ditty

they’ve changed so much these days
and long gone so many now
those looming giant Martians
that towered over towns
throwing light and shapes
replaced by modern soulless equivalents
but still they beckon […]

There was a time at White Hart Lane
When those who thought they’d endured enough pain
But then came the Double
Which quelled the trouble
Back in yesterday’s when
They gathered in force again

Rival in […]

between the pitch and concourse
the seconds ticking on
her dad was early in in the queue
to beat the half time throng
not one to miss a second
his daughter stood alone
the sound of clanking seats was […]

At long last
City have
Fallen on
Stony ground
Spurs their
Nemesis
Double
Completed
Giants
Reduced
In size
No longer
Supreme
Liverpool
And Chelsea
The title race
Is on,
City shaken
But […]

Oh no we knew this would happen
You feared the worst
That hunch,
The crashing
Thump of
Premonition
An earth shattering
Fall from visibility
Shattered shards of once
Colourful mosaic
Now no more
Than […]

Ah another special night for the Merseyside choirs
The liver birds in full song
Liverpool hit the highest notes again in keys of their liking
Last night Inter Milan toppled from their mighty perch.

Former […]

“Guess who’s been on Match of The Day?”
“You have in yer big shorts!”
‘Anarchy in Timperley’ the soundtrack of
My teenage years
Frank and his fantastic shopping trolley
The genius of a paper Mache […]

never thought love could feel this way
never thought I’d hear it or ever see the day
sometimes the words aren’t deep enough to say
it’s just football love actually

all of that stuff you just love to put m […]

Your eyes shine
Like Mané through
Your lips as red
As Gerrard’s boots
This Ring of Fire Allez Les Rouges
My Kenny Dalglish my Ian Rush
You trap my dreams
Nutmeg my soul
You’re Shankly’s words […]

I won’t be watching
the World Cup this year, Because,
Well it’s obvious.

She said he was unromantic
a cold fish of a guy,
as he much preferred football
drinking beer and eating a pie.
She said he was unromantic
wished she’d never became his bride,
as even on their honeymoon […]