Football Poets

How much money do you really need
Is it market forces or just plain greed
How many Ferraris in the drive
The constant snort of I ME MINE

When will your pot of sporting gold
Manifest in terms of stay or […]

A little message to our Egyptian king Mo.
If it’s all down to wages, then please go.
When so rich, what’s a few extra grand?
Just be happy at the best club in the land!

Ignore your agent, make up your own […]

There’s a war in Yemen
But does anybody care
There’s a war in Yemen
Near a million disappeared

Alan Shearer makes his comments
Ukraine’s plight has left him shocked
But he sings a different toon
For […]

We are romantic about football
Eulogising our heroes
Those chivalrous gallant knights of the pitch
But when the smoke of love disperses
And we look and see
Those football boots of clay
Caked in the mud […]

We await, with baited breath
The deal of the decade
Nay, the deal of our history

We await, on pain of death
For a shining knight
To gallop to our rescue

We await, and all while, understand
How beyond […]

10/03/2022. The British Government adds Roman Abramovich to their sanctions list.
“It’s multi-layered, it’s huge and it affects every little area of the club.
It’s cataclysmic for Chelsea. It’s unprece […]

They came to the reebok and rode out their luck
Morecambe so wise as the wanderers came unstuck
The shrimps parked the bus right in front of our goal
And prevented our players from scoring a shoal.

Chance […]

Here is a story that’s directed
To all football fans who believe
That their team is the best and above all the rest
And regularly under achieve.

When you struggle with a donkey centre forward
Who couldn’t b […]

the half time news is sad and long
the bombing and the war goes on
you start to feel it’s bad and wrong
to watch a football game
to see the skills of some new star
to carry on the way we are
while in a c […]

Kelleher steps up
Alisson sits on the bench
The Cup’s in safe hands.

The result for me tomorrow takes a back seat.
I won’t lose any sleep over a Cup Final defeat.
Replace our red banners with yellow and blue.
At Wembley dedicate our Anthem to Ukraine too.

Show the […]

Who, or what
could be better than Messi?!?!

well…
try me
bed bound
in the dead of night
under the spotlight
like Walter Mitty
in a ditty

they’ve changed so much these days
and long gone so many now
those looming giant Martians
that towered over towns
throwing light and shapes
replaced by modern soulless equivalents
but still they beckon […]

between the pitch and concourse
the seconds ticking on
her dad was early in in the queue
to beat the half time throng
not one to miss a second
his daughter stood alone
the sound of clanking seats was […]

“Guess who’s been on Match of The Day?”
“You have in yer big shorts!”
‘Anarchy in Timperley’ the soundtrack of
My teenage years
Frank and his fantastic shopping trolley
The genius of a paper Mache […]

never thought love could feel this way
never thought I’d hear it or ever see the day
sometimes the words aren’t deep enough to say
it’s just football love actually

all of that stuff you just love to put m […]

Your eyes shine
Like Mané through
Your lips as red
As Gerrard’s boots
This Ring of Fire Allez Les Rouges
My Kenny Dalglish my Ian Rush
You trap my dreams
Nutmeg my soul
You’re Shankly’s words […]

She said he was unromantic
a cold fish of a guy,
as he much preferred football
drinking beer and eating a pie.
She said he was unromantic
wished she’d never became his bride,
as even on their honeymoon […]

On the outside of football boots
We recognise branding and logos
And crave those stripes or swoops

We believe that by wearing these artefacts
Of rubber and plastic
Our feet will be transformed
And we […]

Sculpture is the art of stripping away
What does not need to be there
Cutting away what is not necessary
Idols
Addictions
Compulsions

So that we see the beauty
That was always there, hidden within […]