Football Poets

Fulham 1-1 Liverpool

Now it’s Diogo Jota
Who joins the injured crop
Klopp’s men miss the chance
To take three points and go top

The Cottagers were dominant
Unsurprisingly taking the lead
R […]

Bootroom Bard for football seasons
Now that’s the job for me
In praise of Bob and Liverpool
Of all things Bill Shankly

A job well Donne the chants declare
For Dalglish rules supreme
A Prince among the t […]

We all got ‘megged by Covid
No more football games from March
All that zoom and online rooms
The future seemed so sparse
 
So, stacked on teams the world it seemed
All quiet and slowed right down
Our he […]

If it takes a World Cup winner
To rise up and promote
He speaks about Dementia
It’s time we all took note

With the family’s consent
He’s offered his brain
Happy birthday Sir Geoff
Good luck with this […]

Liverpool 4-0 Wolves

Once again the fans return
Anfield is on the go
Singing hard on the Kop
I spot my pal Mario

Salah swoops to score first
Coady with a lapsed header
Anfield erupts in sheer […]

one Christmas during Covid
we stand but far apart
our loved ones and our football
confined to in our hearts
the snow has still to paint the land
but hope surrounds us now
with wipes in hand behind our […]

It came upon a midnight clear, 
That glorious song of old, 
When angels bent down to the earth, 
And changed machine guns into harps,  
And turned leaden bullets into golden carols 
That drifted across no m […]

Brighton 1-1 Liverpool

Neco fells Connolly
Seagulls get an early look
Maupay fails from twelve yards
Potter scribbles his notebook

Dancing two challenges
Jota seems to seal the win
Finding the bottom […]

Pantomime villains
Saints and sinners
Football has them all

Be blessed with God-given gifts
Upon that football pitch
You’re forgiven all the more

But should your boots have trace of clay
The l […]

Yo digo in Spanish
can mean
I say, I said, I’am saying
That is when
DIEGO HAS THE BALL what he does
He is saying
Yo digo

Diego the man
Returns to the
Silent earth

Maradona the footballer
Plays on
Thunderous immortality.

Diego does go
Full of flair and flamboyance
Flawed yet feted

It was a dream come true
I’d emptied my savings tin
My broad smile stretched
From Bognor to Berlin

I would be the proud owner
Of a Diego Maradona boot
Now the barrel chested ones
Latest fanclub r […]

Maradona takes his rest
Heaven’s 11
With George Best.

* * *

golden boy of skill
in one moment with his hand
broke a million hearts

I loved you
Even tho others
Said you were
A ‘cheat’
I loved you
For your genius
Wild and unpredictable
Making up then breaking
All the rules
And you were
Who I was, always,
Playing football
On that […]

The genius of Maradona
In those god-given toes
that mane of untamed curls
and the knowing hand
that could not steal the beauty
of that second goal.

I was having an intelligent dream
The football match of the past
when Everton once met Liverpool

The impression after the dream has been
strong

In the Year of LORD 1993
Everton met Liverpool
In […]

Liverpool 3-0 Leicester

A former United centreback
Jonny Evans scores an own goal
Leicester look to the summit
Brendan is seeking pole

There’s a fitting Reds tribute
For the great man Ray C […]

Once upon a silent terrace
The trainers in the box forlorn
But football just like love returns
We go again, we dream again for sure

Once upon a silent terrace
The scent of Bovril disappears
But football […]