• The Prophets of the Crabtree
    What marker can we place at the limits of this day? Whose anti-face or sterile glance will transmute the fourth official’s only chance at peace to futile bargaining? Which water bottles will survive the marginal offside? Will a fan be invited to the bench if you know so much my son? Where in England can […]
  • Les Éléphants Haiku
    On the Côte d’Ivoire Les Éléphants hope for more than the Group Stage
  • Good Migrations haiku
    Border territ’ry neighbours far from breaking bad heads further south Super Eagles pass high up above the ‘happy to be here’ sea. In Eastern Europe a City boy boards a plane- history again No summer respite. Fernando, your mountainside will have to wait
  • On Middlebrook Boulevard
    The stars were trodden down in an atrium of enclosed sound. There’s a tribute to Big Sam on the floor of Middlebrook Boulevard where dignitaries illumine stars for shoppers then to walk upon. I’ve been to Bolton several times but I haven’t been to Bolton once or walked to Burnden Park. I wonder what to […]
  • An Upper Room in Westbourne Grove
    In Westbourne Grove with Don and Stan playing games we had no poker face for, opening tears in space and time for Clement and Gillard to make their runs from when The Great West Road led to total football. A twin-prop from Copenhagen to Disko Bay took Stan to a five-a-side in Greenland. ‘There are […]