Football Poets

how did we manage how did we get by
how did we exist as fans you and I
how did we do it how did we survive
what did we do …before 5 live ?*

twenty five years on remember if you can
games […]

Atta Elayyan 1985-2019

Friday the day of Jumuah
For Muslims their greatest day
Atta Elayyan and forty eight souls
To the Mosque they went to pray

He kept goal for the Futsal team
New Zealand and […]

Everton 0-0 Liverpool

Although it was quite stormy
Twas an attack shy Merseyside derby
Tenth placed Everton still in the frame
A derby win in their nineteenth game?

With Liverpool seeking the […]

Liverpool 5-0 Watford

Trent set trends and headlined
Assists in a game times three
Just the fourth Red with such a feat
After Collymore, Smicer, Aquilani

Aged 20 years and 143 days
He’s the youngest e […]

Liver birds have seen Liverpool
Liverpool had been known by them
Alan Ball fans communicated
using red telephone boxes
having Blue soul
Every new Derby on Mersey
is the eventful opportunity
to talk about […]

an act of dissent
meant
disbarment
to the bench
while the stench
of mutiny
lingered

Sarri fingered
as dead man walking
meanwhile Kepa?
treated
like a leper

Manchester United 0-0 Liverpool

Liverpool return to the top of the list
But rue an opportunity missed
Overall the game was poor
A frustrating goalless draw

An injury exit for Bobby
United reply with […]

Liverpool 3-0 Bournemouth

Liverpool return to the top
An easy win at Anfield
Sadio’s dive from Millie’s cross
Gini’s sublime chip had it sealed
Moments after the break,
Keita and Firmino set up a pass […]

There’s a dream that I left back in childhood
In the overgrown grass down a lane

On a park named my very own Anfield
A place where the child used to play

Where the days stretched out long in the s […]

car or bus or coach or train
climbing up the hill again
in the howling wind and rain
ev’ry time the same
ev’ry single step you take
premonitions that you make
habits that you never break
going to the […]

These groaning bones of life
With chill upon this winter earth
In search of little solstice
And a spruce of football mirth

Keep us from the devil
And his tackling for the soul
For there’s glory in t […]

In a certain light
My son looks like the grand-father he never knew
My son, all grown up,
A Burnley born boy with Scouse blood coursing through his veins
But most of all in his sardonic sense of humour
His […]

Pele screamed “Gol”
Alberto and Jairzinho tricky
Banks saves heart and soul
Modestly terming it “lucky”

Brilliance from the World Cup winner
In the heat of Guadalajara
Chesterfield, Leicester, Stoke, […]

Of all the saves
In all the games
It had to be Pelé

Of all the discussions
In all the bars
GOAT, is normally the great divider

Greatest player, greatest manager
Greatest team, greatest final
Greatest […]