Football Poets

It was one hundred years ago today
So began the war to end all wars.
If you’re one who looks back in horror & disgust
Please take a moment to pause.
It was lions led by donkeys
Who perished in many a foreign […]

It’s that time of year again
When the hope does you in
Not long til mid-September
All your dreams in the bin.
How times have changed
Since Gavin had a plan
And we’ve been over run
By the bearded ‘New-veau’ fan.
Do […]

the hours spent waiting for England to score
unbelievable
players kissing badges and sliding on the floor
unbelievable
managers who say “I dunno where to start”
unbelievable
when their side gets torn apa […]

I dreamt.
The usual.
Me. Ball. Net.
World Cup Final.

If you didn’t see me scoring
it’s because
my dreams are firewalled.
And not because
I didn’t.
Or couldn’t.

🙂

~ # match time # ~

This poet struggles to land the words:
not so much from lack of inspiration,
(for this is World Cup Final day)
no, in part, it’s paternalistic pride –
fingers bent backwards by a ferocious sho […]

My hope for the final

Don’t wants me a donkey
Don’t wants me a llama
What I want is a classic
A final full of drama

Don’t wants me a lizard
Don’t wants me a gecko
What I want is a benchmark
In the birthpl […]

Argentine manager Alex Sabella on Lionel Messi:

“He is water in the desert”

under the hot sun
the only sign of life
is from the jewel of a droplet
that both sustains and nourishes
and is the spring
for a thi […]

World Cup Semi-Final
Argentina 0 – 0 Netherlands

A lack of bottle
Unwilling to take first kick
All bar Vlaar

~ # ~

If you torture the ball long enough, it will confess
A succession
Of the sideways […]

Why do the League do nothing?

Why march on Saturday?

Why are they still playing home games

Thirty miles away?

Another season dawning

City stand alone

Fans will march and sing as one…

but who’ll bring City home?

Brazil 1 – 7 Germany

Shaken Sonnet

Beyond the Bounds of Belief!
And the crowd are stricken with grief
the Seleçao shown to have too many flaws
as the Germans are profligate with their scores!
they drive th […]

Today’s yin
To yesterday’s yang
We waited and waited
But it never went bang!

I was in and out of the room
But missed no action
Stultifying and turgid
From over compaction

It was a snorefest
A complete and utt […]

two hours of our lives
we cannot get back again
oh when will we learn?

great expectations
ev’ry single time will bring
great disappointments

pass forward and back
pass forward and back again
we’re all bored to […]

in this special land
where they struggle to survive
forced to just endure …

pass and move.. goal ! goal !
pass and move …goal ! goal ! goal !
pass and move…..goal ! goal !

when the penny drops
there’s no […]

Day 25

Hashtag nonsense
Or maybe I’m just bitter
That I’m not
Conversant on twitter!

Hashtag BeautifulGame
They’re all so much fitter
Than me
And all posting on twitter

Hashtag Where […]

Day 23

Neymar sets the tone
sweat and toil over sheer skill
back breaking effort

~ # ~

Day 24

The sun has got its hat on
Hip hip hip hooray!
Beautiful beaches beckon
But the World Cup is in play!

And the […]

Di Stéfano’s gone
with him goes another time
when we watched in awe

there in black and while
tearing Eintracht clean apart
on that magic night

in 1960
Alfredo Di Stéfano
taught us something new

in five f […]

when the World Cup ends
we lose someone unafraid
to hit home his point

“passion depth and skill..
pace and movement from the back” …
Hansen will be missed

love or loathe his voice
he taught us to analyse
how […]

joy and pain so clear
etched with paint upon each face
when they win or lose

yes we’re bored with waves
as they jump and scream each time
they’re up on the screen

in despair and then…
suddenly all garish g […]

Day 15

By Zeus!
Zusi goes close!
Klose closer.
Mueller marauds
crowd applauds
Germany gemmiferous.

Ronaldo reneges
on a hat-full of chances
the boy wonder
torn asunder
at opportunities missed –
there’s no t […]

(as told by T.S. Eliot)

Sudden Death is something you can’t prepare for
Said Bobby Robson long ago.
That time has come again.
Now we are the team, the scarecrow men
Leaning together
Arrayed like s […]