Football Poets

This is the ballad of Derek Acorah,
A footballing lad, and what is more, a
Psychic who detected poltergeists
(Yes, genuine spirits, not scurrying mice)
He used to appear on Living TV
Where his psychic shows […]

I know it must be winter
For the fixtures are piling high
Even though we’re lucky
And the weather’s kinda dry

I know I must be old now
For I rarely get to the games
And I’m also having troub […]

Liverpool 2-0 Sheffield United

Van Dijk goes diagonal, Baldock slips
Robertson’s left foot swish
We’re ahead after four minutes
With a steady Mo Salah finish

Alisson to Robertson, zips to Mane
The pass t […]

Celebrations
In Middlesbrough town
Max points bagged
Thanks to Spence, Djed Spence
Is licenced to score

Our Mairead don’t like The Arse
To say she hates them would be…harsh
While David Luiz bears brunt of her dislike
Took it right personally I‘m told?
Him racing down The Caledonian Road
En route to trans […]

Liverpool 1-0 Wolves

It was Lallana’s collar bone
Cue mayhem in the Red zone
Mane slots past Patricio
Until VAR halts the flow

Goal stands the replay showed
Mok and Mosh rock the Anfield Road
Neto a […]

Leicester 0-4 Liverpool

Could’ve been two in the first minute
Then Firmino caught them cold
Dropping the ball on a sixpence
Was Trent Alexander-Arnold

Counter attack and a penalty
Soyuncu’s arm fro […]

Tall and elegant of posture
With a warm, endearing smile
He’d materialize into the box
In his own enduring style

Everywhere he went
As Hammer, Spur, Canary
He was every fan’s favourite
Ghosting past the […]

Straight up I expected to be behind
When I pressed Red Button on T.V
Of late our defence, not to be unkind
Seems as resolute as a sieve.

Listening to JJ in the Five Live studio
Passing comment on the […]

Mishi was a one-off a real true fan
leaves a huge gap where he always used to stand
held his club like a jewel in his hand
followed them the way few could ever understand

poured out his feelings at the […]

(NB This poem is by ‘Dulwich Poet’ (Mishi Dulwich Hamlet)

Survival
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
People say if they cut me
I’d bleed Pink and Blue
I hate to disappoint
But it simply ain’t true.
I’m as ordin […]

Liverpool 1-0 Flamengo (AET)

In Madrid it was Spurs
Chelsea in Istanbul
In Doha we saw off Flamengo
That is quite the bagful

It was Bobby broke the stalemate
For Jurgen the big rebel
And lead the first […]

unassuming style
crucial in our finest hour
Martin Peters shone

Sir John Moores appointed
Harry Catterick
And now,
Everton will
talk to Ancelotti

Are we coming through
the ETERNAL RETURN

Is it the same momentous event ?

Is it the same developement ?

We […]

whatever happened to hitching?
and can you remember when kids would hitch home for Christmas
to waiting parents on frosty December mornings?

a different world then – hap-less map-less and sat-navless
sussing […]

It was the perfect present,
Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly Annual,
A book that took me instantly back
To a brown linoleum floor
And a hot fire cold room winter,
Studying a dog eared package
Of 5 year o […]

You called on Christmas Eve afternoon,
Carrying an unwrapped parcel,
A gift brought from memory lane:
David Dangerfield’s dad’s football boots,
Slightly battered but proud and dubbined,
Though still sme […]