Football Poets

Part of the original 23
Who’d have seen this coming?
The fans already on their way
Hitching, hiking, thumbing!

A young man wounded by…
An elder statesman of some repute;
A stab in the back?
A decision to d […]

The hero departs
With medal dangling;
A final exit
No more contract wrangling

Into the sunset
And off he trudges;
He served us well
We bear no grudges

He loved his finals
He always scored;
We loved his […]

“Another target for the European Champions”…
Was the gossip quote
And it struck me not
Of whom they wrote!

I scratched my head
I was in the dark
Failing to recognise
The swanky marque!

Yet ‘twas no dream
N […]

Line up all the Cheshire cats
And serve with extra cheese
Photoshop extend their lips
Yet still not half the frieze

Think of the widest circumference
Think equator (not my girth)
And still you haven’t c […]

Delivering unto us
The Promised Land
Roberto di Moses

It’s football, but me mammy doesn’t understand it
It’s football, but the wife doesn’t get it
It’s an education – and I impart it, with passion, to the kids
But it’s more than football ….

‘I Don’t Know What It Is […]

Oh for defenders of the faith
Marching out good and fit and true
Ready to do battle
In beloved Royal Blue

Decked in new stripes of gold
Deliver a valuable performance;
Followers with a reputation –
We’ll show you […]

Well, you couldn’t have scripted the finish –
No-one would have believed it!
Not even Roy of the Rovers
Would have a writer could achieve it!

It was certainly Drama with a capital D
In the season finale for […]

FA Cup Final, Saturday 5th May 2012, 17:15 k.o.

Chelsea 2 Liverpool 1

To the victors – the spoils
And to see blue ribbons on the silverware
Of a blue riband event, augurs well

To the victors – the spo […]

“If you can’t beat them, join them”
An old adage, that rings true
So wouldn’t it be wonderful
If we apply it to a team in Blue?

Certainly during the reign, of one AVB
We were in dire need of a pep
Hard to believe […]

circle the wagons
anti-football parlance
park the bus

in a perfect world
exponents delight purists
but sometimes
anti-football wins

Oh, knees up Muvver Brown
Knees up Muvver Brown
Knees up, knees up, never let the breeze up,
Knees up Muvver Brown!

unfortunately, JT started early
with his literal rendition of
“Knees up Senór Sa […]

“Normal life is within the spectrum of possibility.”
music to our ears
the Grim Reaper now
the least of our fears

“His outcome has been extraordinary,
as a result of extraordinary care.”
we expected the worse – […]

Ladies and Gentlemen
I give you the heroes of the hour… (and a half)
cool, calm and committed
they bided their time
and took their one chance –
when permitted

True enough
for the rest of the 90 minutes
they p […]

‘Match abandoned’
The falling snow too deep
Despite all their best efforts
And the touchlines that they sweep

‘Match abandoned’
Puddles catch the ball
There’s just no controlling it
‘Waterlogged’ the call

‘M […]

For a team that should have been ‘unsinkable’
They went down without a fight
Women and children first
As the disconsolate take flight

They hadn’t really prepared
For the iceberg tagged ‘relegation’
But now that […]

What a load of old baloney –
you make your own luck;
defend your own wicket
or you’re out for a duck

tighten as a team
to protect your own goal
or else it’s the opposition
off on a roll

be in charge of your own […]

Barcelona have perfected – the wall pass
one – two
tiki – taki
only they do it
all around the pitch

If these figurative walls
were for real
then Camp Nou
wouldn’t have a pitch…
but a maze!

And amaze – they do!

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