Football Poets

When watching Brazil

It’s just like watching Brazil.

Life’s like that sometimes.

I was determined to boycott the World Cup,
And be like Christian in Pilgrim’s Progress:
Avoiding all seductive temptations,
And deceptions from the ‘beautiful game’ –
For the arguments against watch […]

Richarlison’s
Goal of the Tournement has shaken the world
All I have to do is think of him
Because
Everton is missing him
Everton fans think
Richarlison may win World Cup
medal
But the formidable strike […]

There’s going to be suites o’ dour n sauerkraut
In down-town Doha hotels, later on this evening,
As ecstatically happy Japanese fans clear up the stadium,
After their marauding gung-ho idols cleaned out the […]

Easy and comfortable win for Spain
Seven goals scored easly
When the Teams win by a goal
to nil we say deserved
And Seven ?
Do we say ‘more than deserved’
Nothing is deserved or not deserved

Except in […]

One Love
garners no love
from the unlovable

Football and music belong together
they can go hand in hand,
just take a look at England’s squad
some could be in a rock band.
You’ve got Gareth The Beautiful Southgate
in defence Eric Dier […]

Can you hear a sob and wail.
In this sorry World Cup tale.
Above the roar of every goal.
Listen out for every lost soul.

Beneath the sunny Qatari skies.
Listen to their desperate cries.
How […]

The beautiful game’s turned ugly,
not a pretty sight.
A thousand jagged stitches, scars
all left and right.
A hideous looking monster, ‘football’
only in name.
A tournament born from corruption,
greed […]

Qatar 0-2 Ecuador

Sizzling opening scenes in Qatar
A launch with the good and great
The hosts struggle to get far
After a poor game at Al Bayt

It was all too a comfortable win
Enner Valencia’s d […]

Through a door left ajar
In a nigh empty sports-bar
I witnessed a scene of incredulous awe.

As a quite bizarre call by V.A.R
Benefits host nation Qatar
In the opening game versus Ecuador.

An Ecuador […]

If something is
better than music
that is football match radio commentary
One of those men who
spoke to the world
to keep us listening
the dramas and enjoy them without watching
was Chema Abad
If […]

Nutmeg the dead, and those unpaid,
The haram LGBTQ community
Our Sweet F.A. will applaud or look away
Assuring that twit Gary (Wonder what he’ll have to say?)
Our game promotes gender equality.

Qatar, are a […]

The World Cup in Qatar, due to begin
Will showcase teary-eyed partisan human beings
Singing national anthems loud n proud in unity.

Only this time, dubious sport, can/will take second place
The World having […]

it’s a dream that would blossom two decades ago
when the Spirit of Football gave birth
to a symbol that’s more than just something you kick
but unites everyone on this Earth
and it’s rolled and been kicked by […]

I’m Spartacus!
No, I’m…..

well not quite.
I’m boycotting!….
England’s first game, for all the right reasons –
repudiating a Republic where rights are unreasonably 
driven roughshod into the […]

You hear it at every 5-a-side:
the myth of the man with time.
He’s rarely there, but you hear his name.
‘Paul – he must be 60 now – dictates the game.’

He’s reached the point where he rarely runs,
but […]

let’s boycott Qatar
it’s wrong for heaven’s sake
however little diff’rence
our non-viewing will make
let’s go watch a small club
while games go on at home
while they just greenwash endlessly
to justify […]

That autumnal expedition to Brimscombe
Seems all a bit too good to be true:
Cycling past that spring alongside Bagpath,
Where an old Rodborough resident
Once slaked his thirst descending to Brimscombe,
Where […]