Football Poets

Given the season (to be jolly, or not)
I jingle
more than I jangle
so if you were
to dangle
a chance
in front of me….
I’d be the one
blocking on the line
the last ditch
defender
rather than
the pre […]

England !
Ireland!
Italy 1990!
The World Cup!
Two Evertonians
and the taste of
the Toffees for the public
Lineker strikes the first
Sheedy equalises
England 1 Ireland 1
Former Everton star 1-0
Everton […]

It’s just a game
Not life and death
We know this old refrain,
A leather ball
A muddy pitch
And childhood, once again.

“Football” said Bill Shankly
Is a very simple game”
Life and Love and Poetry
Methinks should be the same!

All angles of approach were wrong;
James said ‘One of these days, you’ll play on the floor’,
but I was in the far corner: it was two on one.
All angles of approach were wrong.

The midfield was cross I was […]

It is very very very simple
My football poem exists
The title is Two Heroes
The last James Bond film is
nearing its end
The End
The arch enemy said to Bond
They were Two heroes
Within a few minutes
the […]

1980, 16 years old, and when not at Anfield
I would be posited in Probe Records
And once when deciding to buy an old vinyl of The Cramps
Pete Burns muttered “good choice that”
And I floated down Mathew Str […]

“Johnny Rhythm” his fans would roar him on
Any stadium he would fill
Those cathedrals rocked to the rooftops
Sublime moments of genius
That hung long in the air
Like chords of chiselled notes
“We love you […]

I was born in Nineteen Sixty -Three
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
and the Beatles first LP
Sir Roger Hunt scored 31 goals
In that Liverpool championship team
Shankly’s reds my auld man said
The best […]

if Lily Parr could be here now
you wonder what she’d say
as Chelsea took on Arsenal
on Wembley’s pitch today
and did our Lily realise
the breakthrough women made
their influence upon the gam […]

Walk on Walk on with
Hope in our hearts for you will
Never walk alone.

We love you Arthur
We do, we love you Arthur
Arthur we love you.

all those years ago

FA banned the women’s game

as ‘unsuitable ‘ ~

These days I am of the age
Where my football heroes
And my music heroes
Are dropping like leaves from a tree
The clock is ticking, the bell tolls for us all
The not so slow return of Christmas
When I have […]

We all tried to copy your passes
When we were kids
After watching you split open
The best defences
But we couldn’t match you
No one could, tho they tried
There was only ever one “Razor”
Shanks knew, and s […]

there’s something happ’ning on the hill
belief is growing as it will
with far to go this time around
we keep our feet upon the ground
but confidence is there to see
in Rob and Richie’s Green Army

away […]

It’s ‘off’ again now Conte has banished it at Spurs
and just a few days later the matter’s even worse
where Stevie G at Villa has brought the hammer down
and with it those old ketchup wars are back again i […]

how long until diversity
embraces inclusivity
how long until the day begins
when ev’ry coach is welcomed in
to poerate ibn ev’ry league
regardless of their race or creed

no referees in our top league […]

Legacy means EVERYTHING
when we say Walter Smith
Mostly for Rangers
But there has been a goal at
Anfield
Everton and Walter Smith
won the very last Mersey Derby of the 20th
century
Great Great […]