Football Poets

The old Kop I loved as a young fan.
26 thousand Reds in a sardine can!
I started out in the lofty Boys Pen.
Along with lots of middle aged men!

But in 71’ a full time Kopite I became.
Liverpool v F […]

“No puede ser”
Julian Alvarez from the
spot…
The Waste Wanda Land
the Penalty taken and the goal denied
Although many neutral
football lovers can
enjoy Madrid Invincibility
The Waste Wanda […]

With the first crocuses and snowdrops
Poised for Spring renaissance
The Premier League hits the final fences
Of the imminent football
Grand National
Beechers Brook and the Chair
Formidable obstacles
But […]

Frank Lampard new coach
replaced Robins a legend
fans undecided.
But play offs now on
Frank’s name sung loud at matches
he’s turned things around.
Chelsea superstar
yet had so many critics
but doing […]

There’s a new build housing estate
in all our cities and towns.
On sites of factories and warehouses
for stuff we don’t make any more.
Places of toil, unloved and forgotten
working all hours just to pay som […]

Today it’s Hammers against the Gunners
If only we could turn back the
Clock to 1980 when spritely spring
Sunshine bathed our dreams
And varnished our hopes
FA Cup Final day
45 years ago
Was it really that […]

I don’t want my players pressing
Or trying to do the block
To hell with your false number nines
And players falling with each knock.
You can keep your inside wing backs
Your sixty minute subs
Players g […]

The Reds were celebrating,
All primed and set to party.
They thought they had the match wrapped up,
They’d reckoned without Tarky.

The game was drawing to a close,
Just seconds on the clock.
The […]

This Universe
is that one book
Yes
And one football result
both have the Meaning

There is only one Catch
Catch 22

And there is only once
last ever Goodison Mersey Derby
Two Two

We always knew John Bunyan
Had something
Pilgrims progress
Astonishingly in the FA Cup
And to think
Sir Francis Drake
Only popped over for
A game of bowls
Plymouth Argyle
In the fifth round of the FA […]

With sixty-two minutes played
at a rancid, rainy Selhurst Park,
two photographs appear 
on the jumbo screen, floating 
over the on-pitch preparations
to take a disputed penalty.

Matthew Higgins and […]

Through winter’s breath and icy fate,
A dream took flight yet met too late,
Young hearts that burned with fearless grace,
Were lost upon the sky’s embrace.
Geoff Bent, a loyal soul so true,
A servant str […]

The engines roared, the snow fell white,
Through winter’s grip they took their flight.
A team of promise, young and bold,
With dreams of glory yet untold.

But fate was cruel, the sky grew black,
The third a […]

The London derby
The East-West axis
Needle and malice
Surely unnecessary
Chelsea against West Ham
So many explosive moments
Rivalry unconfined
Last night
Once again at each other’s throats
Going for the […]

You brought me first to my surrogate home,
we scaled well-worn steps to secure the view,
a white-lined pitch grown from this island’s loam,
barrier to lean on for my debut,
the crowd so large I could hardly b […]

I will follow thee where’er thou goest.
Be thou in highest place or in lowest.
Runn’st thou the swiftest or the slowest.
When autumn leaves fall, when fruit on branch groweth.
When reaper reaps, when […]

I see lots of Mums and Dads.
Lots of girls and lots of lads!
Fans chilling out, old and new.
The common colour being blue

County Road as busy as can be!
As Everton kick off soon at 3.
KFC is doing a […]

Biggleswade, in the cup,
Caff’ was doing sausages,
“Gotta try a couple, Martin,
I don’t care how much it is!”
Had to force the blighters down,
I’d had me flatpack sandwiches
at some obscure petrol station, […]

It had to be Brisbane Road
Circa 1974
Orient as they were then known
In the old Second Division
That East End cockpit of
Fondly held dreams and illusions
On wide, exposed terraces
Where you could almost […]