• England Expecting
    England Expecting Too much for young worriers Nelson rolls over
  • It is written
    They’re written down in dusty books, heroes, villains, coaching sages. Manager wizards,owner crooks, who used to dole out pauper wages. But characters all, they leave you know, (Teddy’s come and gone again!), whilst we wait in hunchbacked rows, to freeze and thaw with our team. Each new season brings the same refrain, and with time […]
  • The hook
    What was it? the hook that got you. a name? a home kit? a shout? a song? the ground? the pitch? a goal? THAT goal? THAT thirty yard screamer through the right channel? What was it? the hook that got you.
  • Nobby
    Nobby bloody Stiles, tireless tiller of the pitch, gap-tooth dogged marker. Chases his man like yellow dog dingo, never giving over, never losing touch. He’ll run that way forever in my minds eye.
  • Conkers? haiku
    Conkers in Yonkers? New York conker younkers*? You know they must be nuts.