Football Poets

“The fire spread
faster than a man can run” –
faster than John Hendrie chasing the through ball
faster than his tracking defender
faster than the lino
faster than the ref
faster than the supporting midfi […]

Swans, Tigers, Canaries
And as I’m often away with the Fairies
I never saw the ostrich coming

Bantams, Magpies, Foxes
But where we tick the boxes
Not a sign of an ostrich

Robins, Wolves and Stags
To players, f […]

Like a vast expanse of deserted beach
where the tide has tip-toed out
and left behind the glinting rock pools
full of creatures, darting for shelter
where shrimps, crabs and sticklebacks
fight for refuge in the […]

Time has passed
But 96 haven’t

They twisted and turned on the day
But never since could they watch

Or play

The train carriage is jam packed, we’re like sardines in a tin
canned commuters, the illuminati, noses stuck into mini computers;
But whoever went fishing, did so in exotic waters
The South China Seas, the Baltic […]

We started from a position of strength
But then showed a soft underbelly
We defended too deep at length
The pundits slaughtered us on the telly!

sometimes we have to take to the field,
without a ball

when it is literally so, as in clinically removed
(a ‘dangler detachment’, or ‘scrotum subtraction’)
like the subbing on Jonas G, well….
that takes balls

Our talisman returns today
Unfortunately as our foe
But let’s be fair, neither him nor us
Wanted him to go

So will he score agin us?
It does seem to be the norm
He’s certainly more than able
And he does have som […]

x
mas
lights
twinkling
yet I have an
inkling, Chrimbo
will be in limbo, until
Santa fills his sack, so it
is engorged instead of slack
and then it’s “up, up and away!”
and Rudolph leads the sleigh, guide […]

Santa fell down the limb/knee
the ref fretted and shook his head
pulled out a yellow card
when some thought it should be red

simulation is certainly catching
right now it’s all the rage
but if only I could boast […]

bees buzz from the hive
bright red poppies in the field
Griffin Park bows wings

So Wayne, you’re actually one of us
Juggling words the same way you juggle balls
Throw them up in the air
Then catch and re-assemble with dexterity
Each term couched with love
Coupled with the velvet touch, of y […]

I do a google search on a postcode
but it means nothing to me;
what’s returned is someone’s home
someone’s sanctuary
someone’s seat
but there’s no draw for me, until…
until I open up the mapping
click on the expa […]

I wrote it
I know I did
I definitely did
but then it hid, from me
slinked in under the sofa
or embedded itself somewhere dark
secreted in a soft-settee recess
in an orgy of folds
origami gone barmy
a sheet in a […]

I’m ringing you
over and over
and over again
c’mon,
pick up,
please
I have to hear you’re ok
please, please
it’s not meant to end this way

I keep ringing
you go to voicemail
but you don’t return my call
then […]

I loved school
I hated school
I tolerated school
In hindsight, I cherished school
I loved playing football
in school, out of school
pre-school, après school

And then….
then there were the weekends!
kick-abouts on […]

Town Hope to appoint Powell…
My PC heart skipped a beat –
Was this to be the first high profile hiring from the sisterhood?
But no, a misplaced capital
Was like the reddest of herrings
And sent me deep into the […]

Dear Dickie
Dear, dear, Dickie
You’ll be sadly missed darling
Our quintessential luvvie
Who put on the best grease-painted face
Of British film and cinematography

But personally, it’s sport and geography
That bin […]

East Fife four, Forfar five
Mythically announced
Scores read out one and all
From the winners to the trounced

Sports Report was an institution
As was James Alexander Gordon
Who with his enigmatic enunciation
Was […]

I’m like a big cuddly bear
coming out of hibernation
a short sharp one admittedly
with this being a world cup summer
but every day without football
is like a blackhole beckoning

I’m like a fidgety mee […]