Football Poets

France v Australia

Technology trumps
VAR and GLT
Pivotal and true

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Argentina v Iceland

Icelandic sub keeper (Fred Schram)
Is an imposter
The only non-sson
On the roster

But his pals […]

The Iberian Derby

The south-western edge of Europe
Has come to a stop
As Iberian Peninsula partners
Shape up and have a pop

And didn’t they just!
Ronaldo bagging three
As both teams go toe to toe
In a […]

history haiku

58 Sweden

Pelé boy wonder
Garrincha wing wizard
routing Swedish hosts

62 Chile

Vava, Garrincha
Earthquake stricken yet on time
Chile such cool hosts

66 […]

Well that fooled me!
I was all ready to pour scorn
On a match that was so obviously
Gonna be barren and drawn

Then highlight many a concern
About how they might treat their guests
Those of dissimilar […]

52 years of hurt – perpetuated

Route 66:
Ramsey
ramrods
Irons roster –
resulting in rousing renditions
of raucous revelry

Russia 2018:
Southgate
sojourns
with squad of softies;
sceptics sur […]

I’m pacing the floor
cos I don’t know the score
and I’m trying to avoid
how they deployed
I’ve turned off my phone
with its certain ringtone *

and all because….

It’s FA Cup Final day
and my team are […]

I see it in Monet
with his haystacks
and Rouen Cathedral

I see it in Hokusai
with his 36 views
of Mount Fuji

I see it in the curious cut-outs
of a demiurgic Matisse

“series”

repetition – but w […]

I jog because….
I just about can
even though my muscles mutter obscenities at me
and extremities tingle
as the pain of sciatica and arthritis mingle
and internal organs spout the bleedin’ obvious – […]

a painful defeat
is like a heat-
seeking-missile
it follows you
it tracks you
it locks on….

Real Madrid v Juventus, CL Q-F. Real win 4-3 on agg, with last minute winning pen from Cristiano Ronaldo. Referee = Michael Oliver. 11/04/2018

Let’s start at the end
And just pretend
There was no e […]

Ray
you brightened up the Bridge
you became our Prince
once the “King” had departed
and you controlled games
in a way we’d never seen.

you gave us hope
where there was none
and all throughout your […]

There are many do it
Gazza blew it

Bluffers-not-so-anonymous
queuing up at the gantry
all mic’d up and psyche’d up
all suited and recruited –
more for what they know
than how they can say it […]

CFC v WBA, 3-0
Goals: Hazard, Moses, Hazard

I attended this match
And brought my bairn
If the Prem be a pile of stones
We’re no longer top of the cairn

The atmosphere was mixed
The title beyond our r […]

Despite the sample answers provided
my feeble attempts bore no fruit
wrong answer after wrong answer
ceaselessly followed suit

Teacher was also unimpressed
with the scribbles and shaky script
the shoddy […]