Football Poets

Time stood still at my home in Sarajevo

The BBC WORLD Service announced
“PAT NEVIN, a goal for Everton!”

I started a delirious celebration on February 9 1991
when PAT scored in the Merseyside Derby

I […]

It’s not just the players getting fit
for a new campaign that’s nearly here,
many supporters are also in training
ready for all those pies and beer.
They’ll be having pre – season sessions
exercising to get […]

one more legend gone

suave and clinical always

Forest through and through ~

rusty or off form?

Lionesses underwhelm

Haiti look the biz ~

so this is it – morning in July here
Winter in Sydney now… nine hours ahead
a celebration of the Women’s Game
a record crowd all wrapped in scarves
a waiting stadium excited for the night
what’s not […]

It was like that angst in the chest you mentioned, but then it exploded.

My ‘self’ was in a hundred fragments.All I had was a bed and a skylight,

a window on the incomprehensible.Drifting off, I m […]

after tragedy

Wilkinson fires home to thrill

this great record crowd ~

Come together….
Every man, woman and child
And watch our spirits run free
As we turn football wild!

Let’s take all the shackles off
From playing with precision
And let the hearts dictate the pla […]

Tennis cricket golf
The fans are all out in force
Wrong type – new ball please!

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Kit calligraphy
“Subsumes history in hues”
New season coming!

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Numbers – talk to me!
Fantasy squads now […]

we used to be invisible
to some perhaps a joke
reserved for those whose daughters played
the rebels and the woke

banished for a hundred years
our game at last expands
but struggles on for backing
in […]

feel it getting closer now
never mind the rain
where they are the sun will shine
as we go again

can we do the business…
can we show the world ?
football is for everyone
ev’ry boy and girl

the past […]

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto is a new signing
to Coventry City he has come,
the clubs first ever japanese player
from the land of the rising sun.
I’ve watched him in action on YouTube
and he does look quality and […]

Start of new season
The pitch looking bright
A pre match day ritual
A Poem Pie and Pint

A glossy new programme
Like dreams newly born
Wrap banners with wishes.
A new day will dawn.

The players now […]

Iggy has a Lust for Life
I have a lust for the game
Since my initiation
My life has never been the same!

Stepping out onto Albion’s shores
from the ironsides of Windrush
came future friends
future trends
future stars

they assimilated….
but it was a struggle
as the Muggles of middle minded Eng […]

They call him Petko
He sunk Brazil in Extra Time
He sunk Netherlands in  Extra Time
The Peter Pan of football

Netherlands 2 Croatia 4
Nations League Semi-Final
in Rotterdam

come so far and its nearly here :
The Women’s World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand
so much to admire and enjoy
and guess what
this time we’re one of the favourites-
Early mornings late nights aho […]

Coventry City fans in their thousands
walking proudly down Wembley Way,
the atmosphere is electric
on this a boiling hot day.
The Sky Blues flags flying high
noise and excitement building up,
I’m feeling […]