It’s a game of two halves And it now applies to football scarves Street vendors at cup-ties Tying rivalry in knots One size fits all, seniors to tots On the road to Wembley, the golden path One day we’ll win the cup; (I’m having a laugh) You’re knitted into our history We may never play […]

Resigned to starting 2012/13 With new men in the dugout After a few false starts, he got away Lambert owes us nowt For three good seasons We had unrestrained ascension Ending twelfth in the Premier League With the minimum of tension For us, from twelfth, the likely way is down Top flight success hard to […]

Three cheers had barely died down we raised our glasses, then our eyebrows as our player of the season for the last three years put in a transfer request who would have guessed that Holt would want to go How many brand new issue replica shirts Are waiting in wardrobes, unworn, benign Bearing the name […]

Last day of the season A point will be enough for some Atmosphere crackling like a million empty crisp packets Leaving only nails to chew It’s out of your hands If that team wins or that team draws Safety could be yours Or relegation – depends what happens first A goal at another ground lifts […]

The fans wanted Harry Hotspur Or Jack the Lad or Sam the Spark Flash Gordon or Psycho Sid Any of those would hit the mark The men in grey pick men in grey That’s the way it is There no room for Champagne Chas Excitement, froth or fizz We need to stop the hype Squash […]