Football Poets

If you earn your living selling blow-up Spitfires,
If you own a retail outlet or a pub,
And were counting on a football feelgood factor
To set your till a-ringing for a month,
Then most likely you’ll be feeling […]

Glasto then London
heading home now finally
trying to stay tuned

late on Sunday night
in this quiet carriage seat
signal comes and goes

eyes glued to the page
click refresh as updates change
still the match […]

am I so alone
in not wanting this great feast
of football to end?

can we all agree
we have seen some players here
with such class and skill?

sometimes when we watch
the romantic in us all
wishes we were […]

back from Glastonb’ry
it’s a festival tonight
as Brazil creep through

two quite diff’rent worlds
drenched in sun or rain
people dance the same

different crowds and views
human beings celebrate
music and […]

Day 7

haiku

abdication done
La Roja crown removed
Mondial mourns

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one dimensional
tiki taki tattered
end of an era

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Chile chose:
Short, sharp and inventive
Beating the reigning champs
Was their […]

Poor Ecuador:

There was plenty of heart and endeavour
But decisions didn’t go their way
Participation they now sever
But kudos for keeping France at bay

Poor France:

As in a certain lack of finishing p […]

I don’t just want to
go one better than our kev
it just took nine goes

are you telling me
he was only whispering
“can we swap our shirts?”

headline heaven’s here
the third cut is the deepest
might prove true […]

passion hangs like clouds
on the street and in the ground
expectation soars

in this special place
where big smiles hide such hard lives
football lives and breathes

ev’ry time they play
fans by screens and s […]

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so so different then…

we wore flares and had a team

flair is now long gone

Midsummer Night’s Dream:
I wake up to a nightmare,
England are Bottom.

why not believe

why not believe

it keeps us in the loop

come ditch your grief

and handkerchief

we’re still there in the group

Spain, in pain, will soon be on the plane
No more tiki, no more taka; guys, it’s time to think again.

Vorsprung durch Technik, the future looks bright
The Germans bask in sunshine, now they’ve seen the Muller […]

when England take on Uruguay
no time to hold our breath
no place to wonder how or why
this isn’t life or death
we’ve come this far together
the moment’s drawing nye
let’s be inspired alive and fired
by Rik May […]

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best fans in the World?

Japanese clean up the ground

FIFA just clean up

Now everyone has finally arrived at the party
Some bearing surprise presents
Some with glorious gifts
And some have arrived empty-handed

With two more rounds of pass-the-parcel
We’ll soon see who gets the c […]

So good to see
Great open attacking play
Not a draw in sight

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Germany 4 – 0 Portugal

a flower doesn’t bloom
without the presence of its petals
the stem doesn’t sprout
without the reality of its roots […]

A mixture of matches
Tasty in patches
Testy in some
And last-minute glum!

The most obvious trend
A style to befriend (?!)
Different coloured boots:
Pink or blue? He shoots!

England 1 – 2 Italy

By esteemed opinion
there is but one dominion
in the parlance of Pirlo –
peerless

as fearless
as England atypically were
we could but only purr –
at Pirlo

unfortunately
the winner came from […]

Sunday morning dawns,
Glum as the face of Adrian Chiles,
Note the familiar worried look of Gary Lineker
Trying to console a nation of Gascoignes
Trying to regain possession.

Dispossessed,
We have lost […]

Oh Joe Hart …Joe Hart
where do we begin to start
I start to loathe and dread half-times
to see what you’ve endorsed this time
your ads are never far apart
you should be in Exchange & Mart
at cringey-acting […]