Football Poets

For 1948 read 1977
And so many years in
Between and betwixt
Manchester United
The 20th century
Footballing National Anthem
Yesterday FA Cup winners
Legendary personified
In a million lines
Of literary […]

Man City won the Premier League,
Their fourth one in a row!
And they have won much more besides,
From strength to strength they go.

But judging by this dear website,
The world would hardly know it. […]

Hey Potch!

Howdy pardner….
Come and join us, for a scotch
as we review the season:
there is no reason
for us to be happy
so we’ll make this snappy….

we failed to notch
any home runs
we did not win […]

So Marvin Gaye heard
It on the grapevine
The rumour mill is
Buzzing frantically
VAR could be binned
Oh glory, glory glory
So football finally
Comes to its senses
And not before time
Various parts of […]

We knew it would come down
To this day,
This penultimate weekend
The final drum rolls
That Premier League percussion
Rumbling across the days
Of Sabbath and rest
A thrilling frisson
Of activity, […]

So it’s farewell David Moyes
It was the engagement party
Before the wedding
The noisy introduction
Before the main event
When Manuel left in
A solemn slump
Relegation loomed
Moyes stood by the […]

Well another season is over
that seemed to go really quick,
when one minute you’re on a high
and another left feeling sick.
Like that match at Wembley
with a sea of sky blue,
if not for a dodgy VAR […]

Cesar Luis Menotti
Face like a tombstone
With inscriptions of
Pain, hurt, almost
Rejection
Carved with the first
Bold letterings of despair
Never really understood
Today we mourn his death
A man eaten […]

So Ipswich Town are back
In the Premier League
Boiling furnace
Let’s go crazy in the fenlands
It’s been simply ages
Since the agricultural heartlands
Of Suffolk witnessed
Seasonal harvests of goals
And […]

some still ‘new’ to little Forest Green
might not have known him or the legend he’s been
he often came out with “truthfully” a lot
but Bob Hunt gave it out with all he’d got
sometimes in a match you were ne […]

So there you were on the brink
Of adolescence
Voice finally broken
Hormones in disarray
Struggling with the
Realisation that school
Had offered nothing
Of any note or substance
It was the last game
Of […]

We don’t need no FA Cup replays
We don’t need no extra games
No lower league teams in the quarters
FA, screw those clubs below
Hey, FA, screw them clubs below
All in all, they’re just a nothing club that c […]

Oh how we’ll miss
The continuous sequence
Of FA Cup replay after replay
More and more carbon footprints
The same old song
Played over and over again
No resolution, no clarity
Indecision until the
Calendar […]