Football Poets

Days stretched into weeks
No football, at all
Football is just a game, say those who don’t get it
To us, it’s all we’ve ever known
the centre of everything we’ve planned
Friendlies, cup, home and away, […]

We’re all going on a summer holiday
The football season has begun
It’s the Milk-League-Carling-EFL Cup
The chance for a decent cup run

Norwich City played pretty well
Scoring three goals in the first […]

In summer, a fan keeps you warm
A match, lights your barbecue
The ground is where you plant vegetables
The spot, is on your face, it grew

The ball, requires a DJ
A net, to protect soft fruit
Summer […]

If our only injury is a troublesome hamstring
The only crisis is no-one playing on the wing
If the only shock is an early straight red card
Or they equalise ‘cos your keepers caught off guard

If the worst […]

In the 70’s you used to hear them sing
“We are the Barclay Boot Boys”
Added atmosphere that away fans would bring
Tribal singing was one of footballs greatest joys

We got older, they changed the ground
We […]

Isn’t it good to be back home
Fresh green pitch on which to draw out our season
and maybe even win sometimes
Scan the ground looking for changes
Greet all the old faces and a few strangers
A new rotating big […]

I know I’ll feel this feeling
until the end of time
It’s not easy to keep believing
but they’re my team, always mine

Only other fans understand the meaning
of games won, drawn or lost
How high the highs and so […]

If a picture paints a thousand words
This almost pencilled in a draw
A worthy performance brushed aside
As we did our best to score

Chalk it up to experience
A gutsy defeat will have to do
Almost got a hard […]

He watched us lose, he watched us win
Supported us through thick and thin
Enjoyed the wins, shrugged off defeat
Enjoyed his season ticket seat

One of us, he loved the game
Whatever the score, he sang our […]

As many of you will know
Norfolk is a long way from anywhere
Norwich City were thirty years away from Wembley
Before beating Ipswich over two legs took us back there

A Bank Holiday weekend, no question of what to […]

It so often begins in childhood
going with your dad, collecting autographs
in teenage years you go with mates
eating pies and drinking halves

Then you meet your missus
and find the grass isn’t greener
It just […]

When your team scores, it’s amazing
We all know that surge of feeling
When Ipswich equalised against us
A fan punched right through his ceiling

He tweeted to show the damage by his fist
He could see the funny […]

You had your Liver Birds
We had Canaries
You had The Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers
The whole music scene in fact
Including Cilla Black
We had little transistor radios with a single earpiece
To eavesdrop on your […]

No last minute shopping
shops are deserted
no miles of brake lights
all traffic diverted

no glitter or sparkle
no mince pies or mulled wine
a global crowd watches
sport in exotic climes

no room for a turkey
in […]

“It’s a bad time to concede a goal”
Said when we go down early doors
If we take the lead from the kick-off
“Oh no -its too early to score”

“Two nil is a dangerous score”
Not content with being ahead
Let’s hope […]

When I was a kid
‘Spot the Ball’ was a grainy black and white photograph
And you had to indicate with a cross
Where you thought the ball was

Picture the scene
After extra time, it went to pens
And players had to […]

Our game has changed but we still go
In search of good times, like lost souls
Ghosts looking for their former home
unrequited love is all we know

Born in Norwich, I’ve supported Norwich
as a kid, teen adult – […]

I’m old enough to remember when the Pink Un was pink
Printed on paper, on match day, in ink
No radio coverage, no game on TV
If you didn’t go to the match, you waited, like me

If you couldn’t get to the ground to […]

Just a plain, hard plastic seat
Flat clean concrete to stand my feet
Toilets with paper in endless rolls
Attacking football and scores of goals

A short person sat in front so I can see
Half-time break with a […]