Football Poets

I started as the Croatian fan in Paris
but became close with the Dubliners
of James Joyce, Gandhi
or I started as a Croatian fan
in Paris and I invented Facebook
or magistrated at Oxford

How to support […]

Summer without Elvis
is only bearable
with RED DEVILS

Even though we must
be empty-hearted
without Elvis

We do have RED DEVILS

BELGIUM
“La roja de Martinez”
is what Spain
were once

CROATIA
“Vatreni”
is what HUNGARY
with PusKas were once

ENGLAND
Three Lions is what
Netherlands were once with
Edgar Davids

FRANCE
Les […]

For goodness sake
For Goodison sake

Everton’s Russia 2018
came from nothing
or came from something

Everton fan looks at ROBERTO BOB
and his Belgium
And Everton fan looks at LUKAKU
and FELLAINI
Everton […]

CNB
Crazy New Belief
resulted from some
very tough games
is debatable

Old School, New School
illusion
Revolutionary football
Revolutionary World Cup
CNB
Crazy New Belief

It is that anybody can […]

I have just bought the book
INFINITE JEST
Looking at the shelf
where the book is
I am starting calling
the match betwen
Spain and Morocco
(now underway)
INFINITE JEST

Boring and disgusting
Desperate 1-0 losers
Comfortable but hard
1-0 winners
in all the games
of today

I would change the Rules

1-0 victory TWO POINTS
No score MINUS ONE POINT

That is the only […]

I still think about Vuvuzelas heard
In 2010
To be overlooked
Can you beleive that
We all travelled from
Vuvuzelas show
To Kazachok
Can we put together
Vuvuzelas and Russia
and Kazachok and
South […]

Luciano Pavarotti was singing Figaro,
Somewhere the same evening
fortutious goal
in un unpredictable game,

Mystery of luck,
The football player Figo,

We have compared FA CUP third round
with every […]

On Mersey
the answer my friend
is blowing in the wind
and apprehension
On Mersey
seven seven
or 77 was that answer

Everton travel to Wembley
League Cup was lost

the year is 1977

In 1978 there […]

Crazy moves from
Old to New stadiums
open possibility of
crazy moves
from country to country

Who would suffer most
should there be
Chinese or American
Arsenal football club?

The inhabitants […]

Someone from somewhere
and somewhere in Europe
needed someone (highly paid forward)

Someone whose coach is Zidane
is especially the owner of
99 goals

22 men who are from two rich
corporations go onto […]

The winds and storms
The years and Waves

The lives and tourism
The time and the seas

The flags and digital cameras
The architecture without name
The architecture with the name

The empty rainy […]

Football and Poetry
Unlikely Allies
but
Allies Indeed !

It is what
Poetry is
And
what Football is

They are unlikely allies
but allies indeed

But they both need
the stories

On my arrival in Lyon
I checked at the hotel

The room 116 !

Oh my ticket for
Lyon v Everton says
the row 16

But again
the seat number was
207 and my date of birth 21/07

That is what I […]