Football Poets

rollercoaster mesmerising
gung-ho goals show tantalising
like some throw back from before
like some fifties sixties score
just like you’re a kid again
out there in the sun and rain
game so open from the s […]

And what we live for….

gobsmackingly gorgeous goals
testy tenacious tackles
freakishly flighted frees
cunning curling corners
perniciously potent penalties
wickedly watchable wins
pithily poetic p […]

it’s like we’ve never been away and yet inside we know
that after all that we’ve been through we’re grateful just to go
relentless rain then more again upon the pitch and track
and on away fans out there the d […]

I can’t wait for the start of the season
it’s an ongoing long-run affair
it’s only a game and I can’t quite explain
but something keeps drawing me there
it’s the walk up the hill in all weathers […]

Ye Prologue:
There’s an old radical tradition
Of beating pots and pans in the street,
Making a public din
(Rather than a private dinner),
Ringing bells, banging pans, blowing horns,
With domestic utensils u […]

Haters gotta hate
But the best rebuttals, come from the people
The community who care
The populace who placate, who wrap us up in a placenta of refuge
Who swaddle with true warmth
And draw us all […]

It was meant to be coming home –
it really was
but then we lost our way
the Sat Gav broke down
and the AA rescue van, with Pickford at the wheel
never made it past the pesky roundabout of penalties

and s […]

sometimes you know when it isn’t your day
somewhere somehow
deep inside that feeling
we’ve all been here before
in our lives in our world with our teams
and when it happens
surprise surprise
words like […]

heartache in the end

one more big lesson to learn

still we should be proud

when England take on Italy
what’s there to worry you or me?
they are an unknown mystery
and have so little history
a well-trained dog is all we need
to teach us how to hold a lead
we better not play p […]

I can still remember
where I was that day
I was just eighteen years old
lost for words to say
watching on that old TV
there in black and white
in a flat in London town
dancing in the […]

one more step to take

can this really be our time?

time to all believe

I’ve shredded wheat
I’ve shredded steel
But my shredded nerves
Brought added zeal!

A soft penalty?
Well whether Scandinavian or Saracen
They’d say melted ice cream –
Solid by comparison!

But it’s comin […]

Is it coming home?
Expectancy, fear and doubt
Shout, let it all out

Italy spot on

toe to toe they ebb and flow

Spain leave heads held high

“You crane your neck, and I’ll crane mine”
and so we witnessed three headed goals
nod after nod after nod
all following a calming prod
an early goal, from an up-front Harry
the one so far, that Raz has had t […]