Football Poets

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 […]

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 […]

We’re good at sacking gaffers,
We are not very nice.
Just ask Martinez, Silva,
Ron Koeman, Allardyce.

And then there’s that Benitez,
The latest casualtee.
But he was just one big mistake,
For him no tears […]

you run the ‘gamut’ Rovers
upon this hill so high
you never know if rain or snow
or fog will wander by
and so it was on nights like this
with no wish to be bitter
you know that if it had gone on
we […]

I felt as though I were in a poem:
‘Afternoons’ by Philip Larkin –
I was off to sheltered accommodation
To see my mother-in-law (91),
Wishing a ‘Good afternoon’ to residents
Out for their slow afternoon […]

The BBC hoped for an upset,
They showed the match live on TV.
But when Kevin Friend blew for full-time,
The losers were HCFC.

The Tigers they sure made a bright start,
They scored after forty-five […]

Covid has hit harder
than a Chopper “intervention”
but though some clubs have tip-toed out
not everyone has been subject to suspension

And it’s not all as mordant
as a splenetic Morrissey melody
for there […]

I’d never heard of Forest Green
nor had I glimpsed The Lawn
when I first came to live round here
just as the Eighties dawned
I’d always loved a bigger club
at home in London town
but found myself upon thi […]

Given the season (to be jolly, or not)
I jingle
more than I jangle
so if you were
to dangle
a chance
in front of me….
I’d be the one
blocking on the line
the last ditch
defender
rather than
the pre […]

When we were losing one-nil,
I thought our Cause was lost.
The trapdoor was wide open,
We seemed doomed to the Drop.

When we were trailing one-nil,
I heard a wise man say:
“My son, you know you r […]

if Lily Parr could be here now
you wonder what she’d say
as Chelsea took on Arsenal
on Wembley’s pitch today
and did our Lily realise
the breakthrough women made
their influence upon the gam […]

all those years ago

FA banned the women’s game

as ‘unsuitable ‘ ~

We last clashed ten long months ago,
On Liverpool’s own turf.
And on that day, the whole world knows,
We Toffees proved our worth.

Two goals scored by the Boys in Blue,
While from the Reds not one. […]