Football Poets

Liverpool 2-0 Watford

Just when Watford come out the shell
Klopp rings the Anfield bell
His Reds fly up the other end
Salah is sweet on the bend

Liverpool not their best by far
Origi gifts to […]

one Christmas in the trenches
they stood in mud and sand
their loved ones and their football
a distant far off land –
the snow lay thick as thick could be
a bitter chill did spread
behind the sand bags and t […]

there has to be a space there has to be a place
for every single member of the human race
staring at a problem that hasn’t gone away
underneath the suface it’s lingering today
kick it out.. ignore it but […]

Nineteen minutes for the death knell
Three goals in a devastating spell
Ake’s subbing enhancing the flow
A blitz from the returning trio

With that came the winds of change
Oxlade-Chamberlain from close r […]

Liverpool 5-2 Everton

For the Hillsborough families
A show of solidarity
Three decades of resilience
Courage and much dignity

Six goals at half time
Big Divock hits a double
Keane and Richarlison up […]

So early in the F.A CUP
Everton cross the Park

The spirit of Mr Chedgzoy
AND BLUE NOISE
once more at Anfield

The Pub in Liverpool known as VALLEY
can host the fans

Once I took the bus nearby
and […]

Liverpool 2-1 Brighton

No need to worry
Your hitmen on strike
When the Seagulls came to Anfield
They met Virgil Van Dijk

It’s now 31 games
Klopp’s Reds are in a bubble
Matching the record run […]

To say the atmosphere was fraught, watching Man U totally out-fought,
In the betting down Rye Lane yesterday
Would be…putting it politely, as t’was looking highly likely
The Blades would be more than worthy vic […]

Crystal Palace 1-2 Liverpool

Tomkins with a goal ruled out
But V. A. R sat and saw
Mane’s goal cancelled out
It seemed Zaha had rescued a draw

Liverpool on a record run
The Red Army continue to plow […]

Well… I never saw that appointment in North London coming?
Here in the capitals football one usually does?
Mourinho seemed destined for The Arse (and let’s face it…slumming!)
In the midst of a media maels […]

And so José continues his journey
In North London clime
Subjecting with frosty demeanour
But is he well past his prime?

Certainly that’s our chary hope
Sarf of the river
But could this cussed, cranky cr […]

Eighteen Seventy Two it all began
England setting the benchmark
Ballynafeigh, Josy Barthel, Levski
A World Record at Hampden Park

Sir Alf’s Wingless Wonders
World Champions in Sixty Six
They all stood up a […]

Liverpool 3-1 Man City

City come out the cages fast
Lovren has Aguero in the pocket
Two handballs and the Reds break fast
Fabinho smashes a rocket

Salah lifts the lid of Anfield
It’s Liverpool adapting t […]

Prior to a torrential down-pour
Abraham scores once more
Our bogy team, fail to get a sniff o the game.
Though keeper Kepa keeps a slippery clean slate
He best quickly sort out his plates, or his […]

If you see something that doesn’t look right,
City in peachy orange, an improbable sight,
West Bromwich Albion in shorts of canary,
Teams wearing candy-stripes (colours may vary)
Turquoise or Biscuit or A […]

Standard Liege 0-7 Arsenal (1993 Cup Winners Cup)

Ariel Haan got the sack after the first leg
George Graham left Ian Wright out
Four at Highbury, seven away
Standard Liege get a huge knockout

Eddie […]

Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool

Trezeguet did the trick
From McGinn’s free-kick
The Reds all over the shop

Robbo and Mane each a header
It was cruel on the Villa
We’ve a six point lead at the top

02 11 1 […]

Man Utd 1-1 Liverpool

Soon as this game got up to speed
Rashford gives United the lead
77,000 scream from wide and far
Mane denied by VAR

Ruled out for a handball
In the past there’d be a brawl
But b […]