Football Poets

A winning team
that brings a beam
to our faces

And all the travels
far and wide
bringing us to so many places!

Athens
Astana
Heidenheim
Copenhagen
Warsaw
Djurgarden
Wroclaw

So ’tis geography i’m […]

It was Forest under Shankly’s reign
A voice first rose, through wind and rain
Keegan’s debut at that very game
Took to the speakers to stake his claim

George Sephton, sat behind the mic
Friend to all, a man […]

From The Liver Buildings, up high.
Tears, they drip from Bertie’s eye.
Through the red, foggy haze they fall.
Bertie, our Liver Bird, he saw it all.
Bertie protects our City, as you know.
Now in horror, h […]

Did you realise this…have you heard?
This Footy Season belongs to the Bird.
4 victorious birds upon a team’s crest.
And they left nothing else for the rest!

To Wembley Stadium, a Magpie flew.
And it saw […]

Naive question
Goodison will not be
replaced by hotels
and shops and other buildings

The staduum is kept alive

The Naive question
The ́Naive question
The Naive question
The Naive question

EVERTON […]

Welcome to Anfield, to its Pantomime.
We have won the Title… it’s party time.
But the atmosphere turned dark and sour.
This change happened just after the hour.

So, what caused this change of moo […]

Half Time at Anfield, at every game.
We saw the vendor with a deadly aim.
In front of The Kop, he made his way.
Hanging from his neck, a goodies tray!

What a thankless task, lay ahead of him.
This guy had […]

I’ve always loved rivalry and debate.
But I’ve never felt the need to hate.
Laugh at your rivals and banter is fine.
But it’s just a game, don’t cross the line.
We are all similar people, deep inside. […]

When you think back, games are framing devices
for otherwise lost days’ part-salvaged films
such as the one in late December ‘93 –
I’ll call it Black Country Mince Pies –
in a Sierra Sapphire up the M6
for […]

Final game of the season
nails bitten to the quick,
will we be on cloud nine
or just left feeling sick ?
The CBS Arena will be rocking
a packed out sea of sky blue,
they’re up against the Boro
and a win […]

In Heaven, did you hear the Kopites roar?
Liverpool FC, are Champions once more!
We won it at a canter…it’s not even May.
So to Yew Tree Cemetery, I made my way.
A bunch of red flowers, I left at Dad […]

Anfield roared, the banners flew
Spurs in town, the title due
For Ange, all this a boyhood dream
Now faced the might of Slot’s Red team

Solanke rose, the old ties strong
A headed goal, a jarring song
Yet L […]

The expression
“Football lost its soul”
is very very old

It has been repeated for years

Who knows how old it is
1/4 of 21st Century had gone

But whatever is the soul of football now
the football fan […]

Nothing came easy, 15/4/89 the date.
For every bit of truth, they made us wait.
Stuck together like glue, skilled in lying.
The first lie was told as fans were dying.

Duckenfield said fans stormed the […]

‘Please help us Policeman, help us please.

Don’t turn your back, walk away or freeze.

My friend needs help, he’s gasping for air.

He’s just a young lad, he needs your care’

‘Move back’ you s […]

I was told this today, of which I wasn’t aware.
Liverpool’s Croxteth Park, my Dad went there!
With his Niece Janet, my Dad went to play.
To think, I was in Croxteth Park the other day!
They played foo […]

In Season 65/66…in came a new law.
It changed English footy for evermore.
If an injured player could no longer play.
A substitute player could ‘enter the fray’

Barrow’s Bobby Knox, in this new role. […]

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The Kop cover The Beatles and Cilla Black.
Give me a time machine, I wanna go back!
The accent is one, the accent is scouse.
Not a tourist to be seen in the house!

Working class scousers, t […]