Football Poets

I’m doing it again –
a striker envisages an empty net
and takes aim

I espy a blank sheet
and set to with my pen

the striker
often scores

as do I
but I score out
repeatedly

more often
than I lea […]

Yet have I to acquaint myself, with Spotify…
An absurdity to those
Who know only of Conte and Kante,
Morata and Hazard

Whereas I
I hark back
To the days of Kunta Kinte,
Osgood, Cooke,
Bonetti, T […]

Laced up tight like a corset
And kicked, from Devon to Dorset
But then
When can no longer be fully pumped
Brusquely dumped!

I crest the wave –
for all of a few seconds
then crash under water
spinning like a chased seal
and finally surfacing
spitting salt ‘n seaweed –
surfing just isn’t my ding-a-ling

I crest the brow of the […]

OMG
did u c
PSG
torn to shreds
by wily heads
in Barca threads

And did we see a changing of the guard?
For ‘twas not Messi
as dribbling bard
but Neymar
as nuanced Nova
who drove them hard

it’s wha […]

Naughty, Naughty!
So what was he up to –
That led to a cancelled contract?
Him and two others.

Or were they just
In the wrong place, at the wrong time?
Hexed at Wrexham
This band of brothers?

So w […]

Fantasy Football?
More like Fantasy Fruitless pursuit!
Every year
I think that I’m José
that I’ll win it, at a canter
that I’ll be all fit to banter
whilst looking down at the rabble
that I’ll have my feet […]

Football educates –
Yes, this dire critic
Learns diacritics
For where else would I really pay any attention
At the very mention
Of Ümlaut, Breve, Grave, Tilde, Virgulilla,
Cedilla, Caron, Circumflex
And ye […]

In a collaborative webcast today
My French colleagues would like to ‘break heaven’
And I immediately imagine ‘Total Football’ taken to an nth degree
‘Tiki taki’ taken to a different level
Formations taken into […]

They all insisted
That this was Wales v Portugal
And NOT a ‘Meeting of the Madristas’
However, when it came down to the wire
And legs and lungs expire
In the battle of
‘The Red Dragbach’ vs ‘The Maderian Rake’
It’ […]

We score!
89 minutes –
which would be perfect
only
it’s 89 to go
too long?
unfortunately yes
and the hosts press
and press some more
and it’s lax defending
that allows them to score
and then they get a sec […]

Brexit 1 (regrexit even), is well and truly cemented
No matter how hard the remnants of Remain may appeal
There’s no going back, there’s no relenting
For it’s now a done deal

And so it is for Brexit II
wh […]

Oh my Gudni
If Brexit was a shock
then this was a full on shocker!
Roy falls on his sword
Iceland gets its reward
It’s a low point in English soccer

Have you ever felt an island bounce, like a trampolene?
England, Scotland, Wales
watch out for your coasts tonight
as the shockwaves hit like a tsunami!