Football Poets

I know I’ll feel this feeling
until the end of time
It’s not easy to keep believing
but they’re my team, always mine

Only other fans understand the meaning
of games won, drawn or lost
How high the highs and so […]

Claudio is the great friend to Hero
(in Much Ado About Nothing)
but to us
we must create a fuss
for he is undoubtedly, our Hero
taking us from zero, to conquerors
with his amusing ways
and a team that plays
with […]

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valleys ring with pride

Rovers reach to grasp their dream

time to make it real

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if you love the World

there’s a club more greener than

grass upon the pitch

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some […]

The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to […]

Jesus said
bring me your dead
your blind
your wounded
he turned water into wine
and the lame woman –
he blessed her…

Claudio,
he said only
bring me those
who might otherwise fester

Enter Edgar, King Lear, Jon Parkin, Ye Beast, Dale Vince as Duke of Frocester, Scotty Bartlett and various morris dancers as footballers

Scene ; The white cliffs of Dover

‘Come on, sir; here’s the place: stand s […]

odds against them from the start
all outweighed with passion..heart
rule books torn up patterns crashed
tiny budget records smashed
proved the fans and pundits wrong
dilly ding…dilly dong

Ranieri Mr Nice
even […]

Who topped the League last autumn?
Who tops the tree today?
Which team sits proud atop the perch
This merry month of May?

Not Chelsea, Spurs or Arsenal,
Not Liverpool, Man U,
But some upstart Midland outfit, […]

To score or not to score-what is the intention:
Whether it’s nobler striking from the centre
Excessive shots and drives,
Or to volley against a wall of defenders,
And by beating them, scoring.
To aim, to strike a […]

Shall I compare thee to a summer buy ?
Thou art more gifted and more rare.
Tough games do come so fast and seasons fly,
And summer’s break so short doth seem each year.

Sometimes so bright that long sought t […]

there is no sleep tonight
for giddiness comes
with a full lantern’d light
bringing rays of sunshine
into every nook and cranny
of our musty minds
shedding light into
cupboards and drawers
where we’d long […]

Every time I go for a walk
I dare myself
to lift one knee
higher
and then the next
higher
lengthen my stride
and repeat lift
again and again
in the vain hope
that my heel might hold
the ankle might not turn
the […]

Our revels are starting – the game’s to be won,
Tis time to swap shirts before the day’s run,
I swap mine with Shakespeare, with a poem sublime,
Tis all about football, in memory’s rhyme:

‘Sphere! Leather sphere! […]

If I were a ventriqolist….
a ventrickalisp….. a ventrickulator…. a v…
someone who could throw their voice
I’d throw mine
under a bus
over a cliff
or out of a speeding car
so as to lose it good and proper
be […]

Hubby can handle an angry press
But not a house left in a mess
Hubby can discipline anyone caught mitchin’
But he‘s a disaster in the kitchen
Hubby wants to add to the panel, a nice little mover
If only he was as […]

We climbed those steep stairs to the top of the stand,
Where the view of the pitch was total and grand.
We carried our cushions, our coats and our bags,
We were the young 60’s versions
Of what now are called W […]

I looked out upon the stage
a’fore I writ upon this page
waiting for the band to show and play
audacious axemen taking to the fray!

And as much as I enjoyed this rockin’ night
the fancy set a scything strobe del […]

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in that one sweet move

we’ll remember Johan Cruyff

ev’ry time we turn

Big chunky, clunky tackle
In the last minute of the game
Granite, wham it, centre back, whacks
Harder than graphite nails, rants and rails
Exhorts, his cohorts, through exhaustion
Take the caution, slow it, kill […]