Football Poets

As I carry the ball forward
I survey all ahead of me – options to the left and to the right
All angles of opportunity…
Or, I consider the direct approach
Like a dagger to the heart
A full frontal assault on t […]

Merchant ship cranes
unloading their grain
Confederate ships built at Cammell Lairds
opposite sits the Liver Birds

Ferries glide across the Mersey
supporters wear their red or blue jerseys
high above the […]

How many people can claim that
breaking their leg
saved their life
twice

Seconds from signing for those Red Devils
shattered bones stunned the cheering crowds
on that Saturday afternoon
put paid to those […]

give it up for trav’lling fans
endless trips across the land
sussing out the cheapest ways
midweek games or Saturdays
turning up in wind and rain
through ther heartaches and the pain
stuck in queues on m […]

I travelled to Edinburgh
in 2003 to see Hearts’ ground
Tynecastle and my childhood club
Zeljeznicar

During my travels I have seen
Sheffield
Also Leeds,Newcastle,Nottingham
and Middlesbrough
and […]

Is there anything like the absolutely blinding thrill
Watching a marauding one hundred mill?
In the guise of our returning prodigal chosen one?
Dump some hapless Gooner on his fife and drum
Leading the line to […]

rollercoaster mesmerising
gung-ho goals show tantalising
like some throw back from before
like some fifties sixties score
just like you’re a kid again
out there in the sun and rain
game so open from the s […]

Spurs have just beaten City…again
Dismissed by Guardiola as, “The Harry Kane Team”,
That’s four on the spin for the boys down The Lane
Whom appear, right on Song it would seem?

“We conceded due to loose b […]

Midst dream during those twilight hours
Used try discard our past, an ponder
If…that bandy fella plied his trade at ours
T’would be a sight at which to wonder…

You know, stocky little centre forwa […]

All of life
Coursing through
Each thirsty vein
Binding dreams
And racing off down a road
That opened its journey
Upon the shoulders
Of the broad elephantine figure
Bayern’s ‘The little cannon’
Carrying a […]

We’re absolutely over the moon here in West London
As the new season gets ready to roll
T’aint the millions splashed on returning prodigal son
Or the epiphany of our geezer in goal.

Nah, it’s waking up to a […]

We’ve got a new striker
He’s fast and he’s fleet
He’s got thunder for boots
And lightning for feet!
We paid out in millions
For his first touch is sweet
He’s quicker than sugar
Dissolving in tea!
His […]

What poetry would pour
From gilded boots
Flashing like blades
Vibrant the pulse thudding
With a slow moving seduction of senses
Betwixt steaming pies and mushy peas
Whilst the doppelgangers of […]

in the hidden secrets of a small cafe
on a bookshop narrowboat jostling
against the canal sides
an empty terrace filled with the sounds
of lost dreams and old songs
beyond the rubble of lies and the […]

You can feel the excitement, taste the energy
This is a proper football crowd come back home, European night game
And walking up Lambeth Road past Sandhills never felt so good
Them there Beatles adorn The […]

Earth is made for football
Earth is formed over 4.5 billions years ago
But Leonardo da Vinci
and Leo Messi proved that
the human genius was something more than
years of the physical presence of the planet […]