Football Poets

From the best of times
To the worst of times, and then!
The best time ever!

Gareth Southgate W1A Penno haiku

‘We own the process.’
I’ve no idea what that means –
But I’m glad we do.

Forsberg sends Switzerland home
Sweden 1-0 Switzerland

Some thought the talisman
Retired in the autumn
Sweden are a team now
No Zlatan, no problem

Forsberg’s shot deflected
Helvetia chuck the t […]

England facing
A rising tide
Of public expectation

Wild Boar FC
Face a rising tide
In monsoon season

Diving could yet be
The key to both

Priority haiku

Wild Boar football team
Trapped in underground caves
Hang in there boys!

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Brazil 2-0 Mexico

Samba stars shake hips
Neymar, Willian lead the dance
Brazil […]

Ney Ma’s histrionics
Kamikaze Japanese
Bickering T.V pundits
Magnifique Belgie.

Pale by comparison in to the back-ground
When news breaks on T.V
The Wild Boar Football Team are found
Alive and well, after […]

Brazil 2-0 Mexico

like some yellow tide
strolling to that samba beat
will this be their time?

always second best
Mexico do eve’rything
ev’rything but score

Neymar rolls and cries
but relentless as […]

Brazil storm into Quarters
Brazil 2-0 Mexico

Brazil cruise to the Quarters
Samba boys are looking whole
The world’s most expensive baller
He scores and sets up a goal

One nil is not quite […]

Tap tap spread tap spread
Spain’s patience never wears thin
Mine does

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Too much play sideways
Not enough forward drive
Spain pay p […]

Messi Ronaldo
Lack of versed supporting cast
Exeunt stage left

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Changing of the guard
Two goals versus two assists
Mbappe trumps Leo

Spain v Russia.

I’m backing The (former) USSR(sic)
In the shoot-out
Buenas Noches Espana.
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Denmark v Croatia

A lottery
Morphed into refereed psychology
Denmark succumb to […]

such contrasting games
endless passing – huff and puff
in the end it’s pens

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Spain 1-1 Russia
Russia win 4-3 on penalties

mastering defence
Russian grit defies the odds […]

Hosts pull off shock to reach last eight
Spain (3) 1-1 (4)

Sack your manager
On the eve of the cup
Bring in a legend
Hope it all adds up

Wrestling Ignashevich into his own net
Ramos tried hard to claim […]

The World Cup in America, nineteen ninety four,
USA – Colombia, do you recall the score?
While over in the Rose Bowl, with fever running high,
back on the streets, of Medellin, it’s near to do or die. […]

rivalries aside
for Ronaldo and Messi
time to say farewell

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France 4-3 Argentina

in this Russian heat
two proud nations lock their horns
France emerge and stay

this new […]

France v Argentina

Mbappe sur une Kyllian spree
Inspires Les Bleus pour gagner 4-3
(Thought I’d chance me arm, at a bit of the old Francais)
T’was a tres magnifique sight to watch
Till I screamed selfishly, […]

Boy wonder Mbappe sends Argentina home
France 4-3 Argentina

With the magician it’s so simple
You look up, locate his place
Don’t go on a mazy dribble
You play it to Messi in space

Griezmann with a pen […]

The curtain rose up in Russia
In a number of different ways,
And the actors from many countries
Lined up on the world-wide stage.
One month to perform
Watched from near and afar,
A constellation of […]

Majorca reports on a spate of late bookings I hear?
Unheard of – from Lufthansa – for the time of the year
Lidl’s flown in extra sauerkraut, bratwurst und bier
Tis even being said one can guarantee a […]