Football Poets

29 years earlier of
Everton”s 4-4 draw
with Liverpool

Liverpool led four times
Dalglish resigned

It was not the ERA of
HALF-AND-HALF
scarves

Now I would wish ONE

EVERTON v LIVERPOOL
F.A CUP […]

I watched the first half live last night
then I switched off
for I guessed what would follow:
lauded team of Albion, one down to an early, fluky goal
a team unquenchable in the domestic league
but up against […]

sometimes we judge our players
by the way that they behave
a striker for his scoring
and a keeper for his saves
we even tag some heroes
and one deserves that claim
a man who didn’t just save goals […]

they say that it’s impractical they say we’ve gotta go
they say we really have to move but some of us say no
and yes it needs improvements the parking and the ground
but nothing is impossible that’s what […]

Norwich 0-1 Liverpool

An goalless opening first half
All set up for a solitary hero
The Canaries did very well
To keep the goal tally zero

Alisson is the worlds best goalie
No need for any protesting […]

Liverpool 4-0 Southampton

Liverpool open up the biggest ever lead
Maybe a monument to Klopp they’ll erect
Saints beaten and the boss is cool
‘Not even close to being perfect’

With a second in as many […]

West Ham 0-2 Liverpool

139 passes from Hendo
Our skipper looks a good bet
Wise words from Herr Klopp
‘The title is not won yet!’

Now 23 from 24
Thanks Oxlaide Chamberlain
Powered in and struck it swe […]

I crossed over the road from the undertakers
walked in through the park gate
and there it was:
my old pitch, bathed in beautiful sun
still there
still marked, still in obvious use
And I remembered back
to […]

if you were alive
child woman or man
you remember the day still
like yesterday
like Lennon like Kennedy
or the day we landed on the moon
the day we woke to realise
we’d lost a football team

that moment […]

Wherever football is known
there is some unborn future player
Wherever
football is known
there is the post and crossbar
waiting the newborn
That he can grow up and
start sending the ball
in the bottom […]

“By which a strip of land became a hole in time” – Dúrs Grunbein

The rec still holds the voices:
I pick Petie
I pick Paulie
I pick Danno
I pick Scanner…..
Or is it just compartments of my beleaguered mi […]

Arriving at a certain age
I chanced upon a Facebook Page
A football follower’s delight
Outclassing every other site:
No views of Best or Ken Dalgleish
Or Cruyff, for this was far more niche
It specialised i […]

Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

At Molineux it’s Captain Fantastic
Pulling out his shoulder trick
Hendo rising to Trent’s call
VAR confirms no handball

With the Reds truly on the rack
Wolves advance as a dea […]

Liverpool 2-0 Man Utd

Virgil heads in cool as you like
As Liverpool continue to climb
Bobby falls foul of the V.A.R
Salah counters in injury time

Olympian Alisson sprints up the pitch
Beating all his […]

An autograph from Walter Smith
I had had long time ago emerged

Walter, BIG WALTER,
not Walt Disney,

Now, it is strange fact
Walter Smith’s Everton won at Anfield

That was still the football of […]

Too close to call still
Some people think it’s over
You know otherwise

A live FA cup replay at Old Trafford
Ward’s corner, Pike on the hunt
Power header from the edge of the box
To put the Hammers in front

FA Cup winner, League Cup runner up
Let Dev, Bonds, Brooking s […]

Tottenham 0-1 Liverpool

Liverpool dumbfound football
In the best-ever start to a season
“Doesn’t feel special somehow!”
Is Jurgen Klopp’s reason

Firmino’s first-half goal
Turning Japhet Tanganga […]

The draw was being made
for the fourth round of the FACup,
Coventry or Bristol Rovers against Birmingham
” you couldn’t make it up. ”
Coventry will be the ” home” team
If they knock Rovers out of the Cup,
so […]