Football Poets

I wrote nothing of the footy on the pitch.
I wrote about the greed and the filthy rich.
On the pitch upsets, meant nothing to me.
I wrote about the spineless and liars to see.

Not a word […]

Wembley you’ve been livin’ hell to me
with your Hanger Lane gyratory
traffic for no reason, regardless of the season,
and the IKEA cafe’s run out of lingonberry.

Wembley, I hate every inch of you.
Your […]

Colourful expletives pierced the air
After witnessing a scene said, geezer write…
Reminded of committed halcyon days
A sly dig in the ribs, a clump, affrays
Agin a whizz-kid, HP boots chalk dusted […]

Carefree…plagued by player injury
We are the famous WW.C(rocked).F.C
Another bod hits the sod, gets up looking lame,
Gaffer said, ”Best bell, Kev,
Get that spring chicken out a bedH
Maybe he’s free Satad […]

whose ground this is I surely know
unrecognizable in snow
and I my glee can barely hide
to find these gates all open wide
my little dog must think it strange
to stop with neither fan nor game
he gives his […]

SF1: MmmmMessi

Messi’s magical masterclass…
More memorable than most?
Mesmeric in front of the masses
Mercurial medallist dumbfounds (immoral) host

Morocco’s momentum
Offers a modicum of optim […]

Southgate, Waddle, Pearce and Kane.
AKA, The four horsemen o’ the missed spot-kick
Are being lined up in brown paper bags, if their egos fit?
To advertise Pizza Hut, in a lucrative comedy skit
Oh my…what an […]

Shakespeare in living memory
Miroslav Krleza in living memory
Mladen Delic in living memory
Croatia always
Samba during the World Cup
Josip Broz Tito somewhere in memory

Shakespeare inspires us
Miroslav […]

On another day…an able Kane
Could have, would have won the game
After all a second pen? Is a cinch, a cert, a doddle?
Alas, the England skipper blew his chance,
Of extra time against a fast-fading F […]

Sat 10/12/2022
France 2-1 England

For me, that was even stevens
Two great teams, giving it their all
Just what you want
When it comes to the very best of football

But then….
Where there’s nothing to cho […]

I am not watching football
I am listening the live Radio commentaries
That is Radio Zagreb 2
outside of home
At the street
Croatia equalised at the
end of the Extra time
to shock Brazil and theirs […]

Messi, Messi, Messi,
Bless he, bless he, bless he
Guess he, guess he, guess he
Doesn’t need advice from me!

And when you draw breath and think about it
A misplaced pass from Messi
Is about as commonplace […]

After the penalties
between Croatia
and Japan I was
repeating the names
Livakovic Liverpool
Now Brazil lost
I don t know
after Brazil Croatia
penalties
what to sing
Is Livakovic now
in this […]

There was a young fella named Bertie
Whose predilection didn’t include Gertie(s)
He went to Qatar
They found him bizarre
And now he’s banged up watching CR7 get shirty!

On the wrong end of a bruising
Before a heated half-time schmoozing
Warned the chaps to tighten up their belts
The touch-line Samba-esque celebrations,
Ramming home South Korea’s humiliation
Had me s […]

Hey Mr Cool
don’t be no fool –
make sure you give out
berate and sharply shout
at all those around you
whomsoever may confound you;
those not pulling their weight;
those late –
into a tackle;
those not p […]

It’s a ‘Great World Cup’ I hear people say.
Last minute drama, a 100 minutes of play.
Shock after shock, underdogs are through.
Pundits raving about the World Cup 2022.

But let’s not forget the bigger […]

Always there is most dramatic
development of the match
involving Croatia
The Red Devils go home
You can wonder
who were held
to a nil-nil draw
Belgium or Croatia
VAR decision was in the
favour of The […]

God Our Father
Thank you for
what I call
The Logic of Costa Rica

What is that ?

To concede seven goals
means you can still beat
the heroes of the Germany-Japan game
You showed us one Thing
The Giant […]