Football Poets

Football is a simple game
Twenty-two men chase a ball for ninety minutes
and at the end the Germans always win

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Football is a simple game
Twenty-two men chase a ball for
90 minutes and at the end […]

Alan Turing and Kenny Dalglish
Share the same middle name
But the similarity does not end there
For both men claimed the mantle of geometric genius
The football field
With its equations and angles […]

A slow moving weather system,
burdened by a week of brooding, low-lying
internet traffic will break or settle
in the pre-match huddle.

Straining my eyes; who is that team?
They were so far gone from the […]

Bernado Battered Bayern
Militao Mauled Madrid
Now Grealish gets Inter Milan!

The Sky Blues are in the play offs
up against Middlesbrough on Sunday,
the CBS Arena will be rocking
can the City go all the way ?
Coventry City have hit good form
lively up front, solid at the back,
Hamer […]

God save our gracious King,
That’s what we kopites sing,
God save our King……
He made us victorious,
All those goals glorious,
Long to be one of us,
God save our King.

Nerves all jittery and fraught
fingernails chewed to the quick,
this is the lot of the football fan
end of the season and feeling sick.
One minute you’re staying up
the next on the way down,
that big smile […]

Osim passed away
a year ago
When I was a boy
Osim faced
Bobby Robson’s England team
Within 20 minutes
England were 4-0 up
in that game in 1987
Beardo Beardsley scored
the first
But his Yugoslavia team in […]

I saw people hug, their strength to share.
The sense of grief, hung heavy in the air.
I saw beautiful flowers in the Spring sun.
I saw the damage ‘Hillsborough’ had done.

I saw people reaching out to […]

On to 97 Avenue, I made my way.
Thinking of something new to say.
As over 34 years, I’ve said it all.
Same emotions with every roll call.
Only so many prayers that I know.
Only one place where they can […]

on any street at any time
and right across the world
you’ll see them glaring from the shirts
of grown ups boys and girls
these gambling match day sponsors
who boldly underline
that betting is for e […]

The relegation battle
A yearbook of pain
Thoughts about the past
Warm spring and the end of the season
The oversea Premier League television audience
The 80s
The 90s
Golden Kendall’s boys
Bob […]

once in a blue moon

comes a day when you can say

oh yes I was there

Is there something
in common between Lineker
Tom Sawyer and Mark Twain

They are all the characters
of the important story

Among the desperete refugees
there are Mark Twain readers

What is the Tweet […]

It seems like forever
that we’ve heard that iconic-goose-bump-inducing signature tune…..
followed by incumbent presenter welcoming us all
to edited highlights, mapping a ball
then cameras rol […]

BBC confirm

here within our national game

free speech ain’t allowed ~

Match of the Day subbed
Bargain Hunt The Repair Shop
Euphemisms, natch.

My old poem spoke about
Luka Modric and
Saint Luke’s Church
in Liverpool
Modric display in Liverpool
brought the ovations of
Liverpool fans
Oh The Life
and Poetry
Oh The Poetry and Life
You all only […]

classic shots and lines from games
there are loads I know
the freezing figure of the man
just standing in the snow
blizzard howling round his head
empty pitch and stand
the patron saint of sheepskin […]

call him old fashioned but he had his own style
churned out facts like an old speed dial
started out way back in sixty nine*
Motty was a one off in his own time
call him quirky and say what you like
Motty […]