Football Poets

Uruguay 3-0 Russia

ten man Russia fall
to Suarez and Cavani
in their spaceship home

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Saudi Arabia 2-1 Egypt

even with Salah
Pharoahs bow to Saudis late
as both bid […]

Can’t say I’m a Shakespeare fan
Strikes me as kinda daft
Yet I sat through Portugal/Iran
Thinking…this is bordering on farce?

If it wern’t for Lawro’s blinding commo?
Having me in fits
I’d vote to scrap […]

The lines, angles and shapes are wrong. Which
algal bloom will form when the ground has gone –
sunk or deserted – while for now Peru find time
left them, talent still potent, reminiscing
about far post […]

El Hadary the star but Saudis take spoils
Saudi Arabia 2-1 Egypt

A 45 year old makes history
Evergeen Essam El Hadary
Taking Faryd Mondragon’s record
Saving Fahad Al Muwallad’s penalty

There’s tha […]

I have just bought the book
INFINITE JEST
Looking at the shelf
where the book is
I am starting calling
the match betwen
Spain and Morocco
(now underway)
INFINITE JEST

Pekerman,
Finally breaks his press silence,
After his team more than walk the walk…

He talks the talk
Dedicating victory
To the boy sent off in the first game.

Meanwhile over at, “The Elephant”
In […]

Back In The U.S.S.R.
England can go far,
and in Harry Kane
we’ve got a Shooting Star.
The players are now Heroes
many were just Born To Run,
and they swept aside Panama
banging in goals in the […]

six past Panama
all hail hat-trick hero Kane
perfick summer’s day

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Scorcher ‘n Score
just like Roy of the Rovers
hat-trick hero Kane

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Non-haiku…..

Everybody watched
Even Oss […]

Deutschland on the rocks
We thought the unthinkable
Then Kroos curls it home

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Son some strike
Chicharito leads the line
Hits half century

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Tunisia out
Les Diables Rouge at full […]

Kane proves he’s able,
Not the brother of Abel;
But still merciless

Costa Rica thwart
Coutinho leads the charge
Late, Late Show

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Politics abound
Kosovo flag on his boots
Shaqiri offends

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Pre-match:

Messi and complicated
all our lives can get […]

England 6-1 Panama

as we fire in six
time to dream or say that it’s….
…only Panama?

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Japan 2-2 Senegal

clean and playing fair
Samurai leave ev’ry ground
looking spick and […]

Ingerland
Knock Panama into a cocked hat,
I raise my cap to Gareth and the chaps.
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Los Cafeteros
Go to The Poles
It’s a landslide.
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Japan
With the […]

Kane hat trick breaks records
England 6-1 Panama

Despite the searing heat
It’s a Sunday English rout
Stones heads & Kane from the spot
Panama are on the way out

Stones again from a training set piece […]

Just back from Austin, Texas
(Somewhat jet-lagged from the flight)
Where a local press deemed the Mexican teams chance of success,
After their highly publicized prep, at the very best…slight.

I’m reminded […]

Belgium 5-2 Tunisia

five star masterclass
from Hazard and Lukaku
as Belgians ease on

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South Korea 1-2 Mexico

In a sticky group
Mexico are sat the door
Hernandez the […]

Lukaku and Hazard at the double
Belgium 5-2 Tunisia

Lukaku joins Ronaldo
In the race for the Golden Boot
Romelu does have an ace
It’s Hazard playing the flute

As the Belgians rout Tunisia
Both s […]

Against a late onslaught from ten man Germany
Valiant Sweden collapse in a heap – at the death – on the floor
After running out of Ikeas defensively
Perhaps…they should have stuck to a flat-pack four?

Belgique, out muscle Tunisia
Who manage to beat Top Cat twice,
Yet if they’d left on their in form finisher
The Golden Boot could have been his prize tonight?

Ingerland’s defence is another story
In the […]