Football Poets

Watching the game in the club
get in early to get a seat,
they’ve installed a big new screen
it really does look smart and neat.
An hour to go before kick off
the place is now filling up,
they’ve come to […]

it’s always really easy watching England
it’s never ever difficult at all
it couldn’t be less stressful
in fact it’s rather restful
you’ll never find us up against the wall

I’d recommend a game to ev’rybody […]

Searching for Elysian Fields, Utopia
Nirvana, The Golden Fleece, Tir na nOg?
The next Bernard Briggs, Roy o’ The Rovers,
Or the fortuitous ill-named Hand a God?

Nah. Desiring dreams ain’t reality, true to […]

We’re not looking for those miracles
We’re not looking for the boots of gold
We just want some football fireworks
That lift our weary souls
We’re not searching for El Dorado
Or the myths of bold Gawain […]

In there, fighting still
Beating Ukraine four goals to nil
On a balmy night in The Eternal City…Rome.

Time to shower, board a plane
Fly back to Blighty, face The Danes
On Wednesday night in our Eternal H […]

everything is political
economics rules
like your accent which school you went to
or didn’t
we carry these burdens unto the grave
classified & categorised
don’t need a virus or jab to track & trace […]

When the working class was first given the vote,
The Home Secretary said:
‘We must educate our masters’;

The result was the Education Act,
Which resulted in elementary schools,
Throughout the cities, tow […]

sets our broken hearts on fire
raises long-lost hopes
like pilgrims gripped by holy grails
we spring back off the ropes

we never learn we long to dream
like children scanning skies
for reindeer and […]

All the way to Wembley
From the cauldron that is Rome
A growing faith that dares to hope
Is football coming home?

fab four goal fest brings

one more clean sheet one more step

closer to the prize

team spirit and pride

drive this Denmark outfit with

spirit class and style

Italy stand strong

who can stop a team reborn

raised by Mancini

Simón saves for Spain

stretched and tight they win on pens

ten men Swiss are rolled

And behold
as the match unfolds….
I didn’t even see the goals
but those second half roles
spoke volumes
and I could see the score
and heard no roar
but the tension was taut
Belgium fraught
but the tec […]

I have never seen
a match like this
Invited for a dinner
I had to leave at the start
of England v Germany game
My little home camera
was directed to my TV
And also that image was
visible through […]

It’s possible to shout that in umpteen different languages
And still mean it.
‘Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman’
And what does that smell like?
It smells of Prehistoric Beaker Folk from […]

Buy George, bye George, by George,
It’s my jubilee too this year,
Fifty years of hopes and fears,
And while you couldn’t call my life
A total exercise in active citizenship,
You couldn’t call it total subje […]

We’re dancing in the streets
We’re dancing in the aisles
United and delighted
A country full of smiles

We’re beaming with delight
We’re rejoicing in the pubs
Every damn one a hero
From the keeper to the […]