• Loyalty Points
    Costa detritus from Chippenham to Heston- Fulham v Swansea Chatting to Swans at communal wash basins- this won’t be easy A new perspective through water on the windscreen Season’s Loyalty Points back to nothing without renewal
  • Anthem of the Shin
    Red suns drift, eclipsed by blue and peachy-orange Stockings of Japan
  • 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 […]
  • 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
  • Les Éléphants Haiku
    On the Côte d’Ivoire Les Éléphants hope for more than the Group Stage