Football Poets

Wiggo! Wiggo! Wiggo!
But I’m not chanting for Martinez and Whelan
and their perennial escapees
nor predicting a plummet
in aggravated journalese

Bradley! Bradley! Bradley!
But I’m not advocating Guzman over Giv […]

Chelsea win Euro 2012
yes, our world domination plan is coming along nicely
the Barca / Real Madrid lads do the grunt work
but it’s Torres and Mata who finish so precisely!

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There’s gold, hanging fro […]

SF1

Spain 0 – 0 Portugal

Pub. Penalties.
A journey from beer to cheer.
With boorish banalities.

Rhyme. Reason.
The ball flows better than words.
Squandering is treason.

Pub. Friends.
Lovelorn and […]

QF2

there was no paucity of goals
in what was billed as the “Bailout Game”
no austerity when it came to thrills
but no handouts either (other than for sporting handshakes)
when the final whistle came

QF3 hai […]

Leader and fulcrum
Spraying Hail Mary passes
Stevie G

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Hair plugs de rigeur
Spraying Andy’s gel products
Wayne Rooney

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Pulling the strings
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Euro boss

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Skips a […]

The right team advances
methinks
though I wouldn’t like to jinx
their chances;
Ronaldo dances
and dinks
in his own inimitable way;
the boy can play
but Portugal rely on him too much;
as such
I don’t fancy the […]

Ah, finally, a day of rest and recuperation
After 12 days of incessant incarceration
A time to catch up, on household chores
I must get to it, early doors
A list, as long as my arm… and growing
Though to be h […]

We watched the match anxiously from afar
The Ukraine a long stretch for the pocket
Occupying hearthside or comfy bar
The fêted winner hardly a rocket;
Wayne Rooney stoops to score from two yards
And we all feel […]

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I don’t know his middle name
but I do hope it’s derrick
so that Roy may hoist
our hopes – and the performance of his chargehands –
that his crane may be the winch
to get us up
and ready for …
dissonance in Do […]

Down down deeper and down
The mood of the Nation
Down down deeper and down
Borne of frustration

Down down deeper and down
So they turn to incantation
Down down – less of a frown
And dance for inspiration

Up down […]

“Them Welcott and Walbeck boys done good!” –
that’s the trouble with success:
creeping out of the woodwork
come the nouveau capiche
the pseudo pundits
the bandwagon jockeys

meanwhile, the die-hards enterta […]

Torres thunder
Adverse weather conditions
Lightning strikes

Spain 4 – 0 Ireland

Well that was a salutary lesson
In how the game should be played
The red tide wasn’t for turning
No matter how hard that we prayed

They said we’d be ‘hard to beat’
Well that certainly […]

Poor ol’ ‘Arry
Dumped
When so recently
He was plumped
As future
National boss
Now this double loss
Has him nonplussed
But no sense
Of disgust
Just sorrow
That come tomorrow
It’s the dole…
And the greasy pole
Of […]

David Pleat gives us the first line

“We’ve got some stiff, stodgy defenders on show”
Leaving free reign for the attackers
Let’s hope that it leads
To goals aplenty … and all of them crackers!

We’ve got some crus […]

Cech n Chalkias
Impersonate French keeper
Dropsy

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Captain fantastic
Blaszczykowski shoots
Blaze of glory

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‘Kuba’

‘Kuba’ hides it well;
The moniker disguises
The scrabble players delight […]

We dared to dream
Of what could be
If we won out
Il Gruppo D

Perchance to meet
From Group C
Either mighty Spain
Or Iter-lee

Onwards the semi
From Group A or B
The Oranjeboom
Or old foes Germa-nee

But surely […]

We had our songs to sing –
but
“You’ll – Never – Beat – The – Irish!”
sounds a little hollow
when you’re one-nil down after 3 minutes
two-one down at the break
and three-one down from the re-start…..

but […]

First up
A commentators nightmare –
Poland versus Greece is manageable
Until you get to the teamsheet – and the vowels get mangled and tangled….

Papastathopoulos, to Papadopoulus, to
Poponeontopofus, for a hea […]

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