Football Poets

my first ever match
at the Bridge
I’m 10 in shorts and the Wolves are in town…
so what’s yours?

I recall that Saturday like yesterday
a steaming summer
our first home game in ‘58
excitement
and c […]

Wanted man at Hounslow Central
Wanted man outside the Stoop
Wanted man on Chiswick High Road
Wanted man at Botanic Kew

Wanted man outside the Beehive
Wanted man in Osterley
Wherever you might look tonight […]

the greatest all time vegan team
from Man U Derby Forest Green
from Everton and Liverpool
from Spurs and Arsenal Chelsea too
from Birmingham to QPR
the greatest vegan team by far ,,,,,

Edwin Vanilla […]

What if we forgot to start pre-season,
found a training camp for enjoying time
above the crickets and distant fireflies?

What if we only started the season
to fulfil a contract? Where is the passion
which […]

a friend and I were talking
before the match last night
on language and behaviour
and stuff that we don’t like
on how we felt about it all
the things that we believe
to not be thought old fashioned
to n […]

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 […]

The ball from Manchester United
museum said to me

“What about you”

I have been here for years

The football player Fabregas
said he spoke to the ball

It is so EASY

He takes the penalty
saying to […]

this is when you pinch yourself
dust that scarf from off the shelf
we ain’t scared of no-one else
we are FGR
brand new season brand new era
can you feel it drawing nearer
see our vision growing […]

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 […]

Laced up tight like a corset
And kicked, from Devon to Dorset
But then
When can no longer be fully pumped
Brusquely dumped!

Wednesday football
wonderful invention

To be or not to be
for those sharing
A Hard Day’s Night

So why on earth
should I moan as
there is Wednesday football alone

A plot of land that served them well.
But now LFC have decided to sell.
A training ground for many a year.
But an Academy move now is near.

The Melwood walls got a lot higher.
With added twists of barbed […]

Watching the gulls all swooping around
Brought back the memories of some very strange words
That made us all think
Trying to find the real meaning
And connecting the link
To the sardines and […]

First, you need a pen. But in order to get one
you’ll have to go down in the box
that you keep them in.

Next, you’ll need paper.
Not the back of that fag packet
that you scribbled next Saturday’s team on, n […]

If you see a white feather floating by.
Coming from nowhere out of the sky.
Down from Heaven a feather to drift.
An Angel is near by, a loved ones gift.

Into the face of a child a feather blew.
Down from […]

The Belfast Boy, a player complete.
Had the football world at both feet.
Art like gift, born to dazzle, to win.
Never again to see the likes of him.

In United Red, in native Irish Green.
The greatest […]

‘Justice for the 96′ we know the chant well.
All the flags have the same message to tell.
The headline news always reads the same.
’96 innocent victims’ we recall every name.

When candles are lit or when the […]