Football Poets

Birthday boy and his pals
head off into the witching hour
whereas I
I’m ready to hit the hay – before it is even sown

They head to where the grass is mown
the verdant village green
whereupon ensues
a midnight min […]

Am I still the Special One?
Of course!
First, the divorce
And now, we re-marry
And I vow, we’ll not tarry
There’ll be no dilly-dally
But I will drive doo-lally
Anyone, who crosses swords
For I
Want all the awards!

a delegation
discuss relegation:

down with it, we say
enough of it, you say
to hell with it, they say
and off they go
they leave us
in the lurch –
they deserve the birch!

Bayern Munich 4-0 Barcelona

The Invincibles
Aren’t

The Conquistadors
Shan’t

Even Messi
Can’t

You can’t judge a match
By looking at the score
What you have to do
Is listen to the roar

You can’t judge a keeper
By the length of their dives
More by the surety
On which the team thrives

You can’t judge a pla […]

Art is everything
Everything is art
But what we saw today
Didn’t play its part

It was a non-performance
Complete and utter trash
As a case of non-conformance
It wasn’t a cultured cache

But tomorrow’s anoth […]

Messi, in a deadlock of defenders
unpicks, unlocks, unleashes
a devastating double
that leaves the likes of Houdini and Blane
scratching their heads

“Football, football, football
It’s all you ever think about”
Mother flies through the room, with broom
And proceeds to scream and shout

“Look at all these dirty clothes, strewn everywhere
And mucky boots a […]

I hate seeing injustice
Especially in sport
And I hate seeing the obvious
And no-one being caught

When there’s extra policing
But it all comes to nought
Well that’s when there’s frustration
And rectitude sough […]

Dodgy knees, dodgy fees
The transfer window opens wide
Dodgy deals, greasing wheels
Someone shrewd to halt the slide

Dodgy toe, in the know
Going by the word of the scouts
Dodgy tummy, prices crummy
Too soon […]

pls
Santa
can I have
my ball back?
It flew over the
fence and was eaten
by a beast, such a feast
looked like Rudolph; so, much
obliged if your sack bulges with
pigs bladders of many different hues
but all the more […]

Tactics:

Survive the festivities
With all its proclivities

Aim to be mid-table
Rather than under it

Attempt to gorge in the feast (for points)
Rather than scramble for cold crumbs of comfort

Aim for far flung […]

Old rivalries resumed….
And we return to myths that have bloomed….

To poetically paraphrase
Legendary stories
Re former glories….

Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris to Eddie Gray…..

“Can I have my studs back please?
Last […]

Like many, I’m a battle hardened ol’ pro –
not as in the paid echelon of the game type of pro
but more as in erstwhile player
and full on, full time fan

It takes a lot
to get me out of my seat.
But every now a […]

England 5 – 0 San Marino

To play the world’s worst team
Must be such a dream
Although the toughest opponent
On the teamsheet
Is X Pectation
Who always exceeds, if never excels

Poland 1 – 1 England

Rai […]

I wander. Lonely. As a cloud, I fret
that my impending dissipation
will prevent my participation
in the game we love so much –
Rainball.

We line up in cloud formation,
warm front versus cold front,
one decked o […]

We?
We band together
Gaining strength in our numbers
In our uniqueness
In our ubiquity

We
Right the wrongs
That another might make
Sweeping up the strewn errors
Like leaves off the lawn

We
Provide the […]

Moldova 0 – 5 England

Perfunctory. Predictable. Pedestrian.
Picky pundits postulate.
But to be fair
T’was job done by half-time
In the Moldovan lair

Kazakhstan 1 – 2 Ireland

A win is a win is a win.
And any v […]

Hillsborough
Impressionable faces
Chain-linked to horror

Sneaking out the back door
With a ball under my arm
There’s still homework to be finished
But sure, what harm?

Half a minute
To race to the park
Where we’d zealously play
Until well after dark

Whose side are you […]