Football Poets

A hoarse smoky slow refrain,
Reading through my programme, caught my ear
Waiting on a bit of poignant instrumental ska
Let’s our emotions know whereabouts we are?
Cue…a welling up, a hand shielding a tea […]

We look the part
And top of the chart
Klopp say’s no need to excite

One hundred percent start
Looking extra smart
Soars high that bright red kite

Matip has the heart
Salah is pure art
Born for that l […]

Watching them, Irons, alight from a barge
and gracefully skip over a myriad of puddles
On their way to the stadium…after, avin it large
Singing their traditional, “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”.

It s […]

Southampton 1-2 Liverpool

March was the time
When the Reds began this climb
Saints the latest to face the gun
Of an eleven game unbeaten run

On his return it was super Sadio
Scoring and assisting […]

There’s something about Jumuah
When Salah hunts his prey
Six goals in five games
All this on a Friday

Grant Hanley scores the seasons first
As he slices Origi’s cross
Firmino turns provider
Salah adds his […]

Crowds packs in tight
at night floodlights on,
watching my team Coventry City
and yet another game won.
Rattles and rosettes
decked out in sky blue,
our player nets a hat trick
and on his debut.
Jimmy Hill […]

there’s a stillness to the night –
sleep has zero’d in on the whole household
bar one
the night owl
the habitual moon-walker

and in the dying moments
afore they too join the slumber party
even the tinie […]

If able, Kane might wish to seek pastures anew
After Tottenham gert mullered last night seven – two
and to make the dilemma perverse,
For those should I stay or should I go stars at Spurs,
A former Gooner at […]

All around the fields of Saray
It’s the beautiful game they love to play
So kids, it’s time to step to the fray
And dance with this football attaché

Bosnia bred is the great Safet Susic
It’s first World […]

Eau de cologne a la greasy onion
Horse dung carpeting a street
Shifty chancers vis a vis Damon Runyon
A beady eye out for the police.

Boozy balding blokes a boasting
Bout their bawdy bar-room brawls in […]

Norfolk Breweries
Bavaria Breweries

Bayern and Norwich
met in Munich
long time ago

Yellow submarine was
constructed in Munich

Norwich won 2-1 at Bayern

Norfolk saw their canaries
becoming […]

What a farce
I’ll have to pass – at any deep rooted analysis
Prorogation? Purely Parliamentary paralysis.
Has Bojo lost his mojo?
Leading us unto Brexit?
Surely a simple call of ”legs it!”
To over-ride the R […]

Joe Hart or Hart Crane?
Mesut Ozil or Osip Mandelstam?
Seamus Heaney or Seamus Coleman?
Joe Allen or Allen Ginsberg ?
Charles Bukowski or Bob Lewandowski?
William Soutar or Graeme Souness?
Derek Mahon or […]

We bought you in the Window
and we got you on the cheap,
just after we let Luis go
(grown men were seen to weep).

You’re not his twin, or next of kin,
(was Brendan half asleep?)
and who but him would t […]

A weekend like so many
We plan them all life long
We sit or stand as football fans
In silence or in song
And something seems to join us
Our work is left behind
A few hours at the football
With winning on […]

What a day for the Whites
we’ve almost signed a team
Nine new players signed today
This week seems like a dream
Football Ventures took us over
what more could we ask
If we are to Survive in division o […]

Football is flesh and blood
love and lies and truth
betrayal sadness joy and faith
wit wisdom and idiocy of
the indelible comradeship
the principles and disciplines
the traps tropes and temptations
of a […]

When I am an old woman, I am going to wear purple
In the name of rock and roll God bless my rebel soul
I will learn to play guitar, and who cares if I’m out of tune

Because I’m in step not out of time, and […]