Football Poets

Unassumingly,

Pellegrini claims the prize.

El condor pasa.

He’d sniff out a goal
The way my pooch would sniff out a waylaid treat
And he’d do it in such a way
That would have everybody off their seat

In passages of play, he’d wander
And then as if by magic, he’d pounce […]

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Osgood is good

we would bellow from the Shed

how we miss the King

It’s that quizzical look on the faces
That gets me every time,
When I tell them I write about football
And I do it in words that can rhyme.
Is it because I’m a woman
That they don’t understand why I do,
But when […]

“Nah
Duh!
Don’t want to!
Don’t like it!
What do you care?
Why should I?
What the heck?”

Soon it’ll be “arse, drink, fe@k!”
What bothers me, is the waste of talent in a child
When you want them to be wild
They […]

They say back in the day in Bermondsey
A sack of spuds could wear a red rosette
And Labour would still be elected
It was such a safe bet.
Such blind loyalty is how I feel
About some of our ‘New-veau’ fans
Almost […]

Jilted and kilted and blowing into a cephelopod’s bum
The lonesome piper stood his ground
Oh how the sound
Squeels with every squeeze

He’s there, silhoutted twixt the blue neon hoops
Of a sloping sloop of a post […]

I met a traveller from an antique land,
A refugee from an R and B band
He said “Take the advice of a wand’rin man;
Don’t bet on the favourite in the first week of Jan”
Then chewing on some baccy as he turned […]

Almost there
It’s Christmas Eve
Looking forward to it
Even though I don’t believe.
Weather forecast’s ok
Football at the weekend
Groundhopping again.
First my Dulwich Hamlet on Saturday
For my holiday treat
Then […]

Simply great coaching.
Done how?
Howe Don done it.

so how do you feel now your papers have come
and the moment is finally here
when you’ve waited so long it went on and on
for this country to call you to War
when it’s time to forget the life you have known
your […]

100 year anniversary of the famous Truce match, 1914

The whistlers, the peepers
the keepers of time and regulation
are rarely saluted.
As far as we know, the Truce match of 1914
had no referee
just trenches and […]

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top
@Xmas
the target
of many hopefuls
and somehow achieved
by the Foxes, who pepper oppo
boxes and send out Mahrez and Kante
to maraud and plunder. Imagine, if Santa
delivers as well as Vardy this year, […]

You took the wrong road Louis
When you came along for the ride,
It’s time to take the long road,
Just turn your back on the side.
Man United now has lost its fire,
Performances have slumped
The situation is d […]

Is that a bandwagon?
Can’t you hear the noise?
Time to pile down The New Den
We’re all lifelong Millwall boys.
In the Tinpot Paintpot area final
Just one round from Wembley Way
Dreaming of another game under the […]

Some grounds are unlucky
We call it all a jinx
Just bad luck or not good enough
Despite what everyone thinks.
We tend to struggle at Bognor
That seems the rule of thumb
Which is why when you mention them
We come […]

I wonder where you were
When I was just a child
If you had been in existence
Would I have been so wild?
I was never good at football
But you would not have taken the mick
It’s all about respect and […]

We’ve all got strange quirky hobbies
Pray tell what is it you do?
Do you have a love of animals
And can’t resist a zoo.
Perhaps you’re nerdy old fashioned
Call yourself a trainspotter
Or keep on writing […]

Football takes a back seat
while ideology and barbarism
intertwine to produce a monster
that feeds on purified souls
and while kalashni coughs and splutters
all pursuit of destinies and goals
are stymied and […]

The no-score draws have settled in like winter
We sleep under six clean-sheets and a blanket of snow
Each snore draw is a draught, a phial of sleep
A white and quiet light, a rest that is silence.
But slow. […]