Football Poets

One Love
garners no love
from the unlovable

I’m Spartacus!
No, I’m…..

well not quite.
I’m boycotting!….
England’s first game, for all the right reasons –
repudiating a Republic where rights are unreasonably 
driven roughshod into the […]

We used to argue ad-nauseum
As to whether or not the ball crossed the line
Case-in-point: ‘66

Now we have microscopic lenses
And digital wristbands
That pinpoints crossing ‘tween the sticks!

That ball
has found its time
and its place

guided there
by my bonce
and a smile ‘pon my face;

as it nestles gloriously
there
in the back of that net

it is
for me
my most favourite goal yet!

I would opine
much more online
but…

“password not accepted”

so I try password this
password that
password another
but I even forget
the maiden name of my mother!

And so I switch
from the ether […]

The Hand of God ball
is up for grabs!
To be auctioned
to the highest bidder.

And because he is no longer with us
it won’t go to the maximal fibber!
(God bless his memory
for Diego is footballing d […]

“One poem follows another”
Just like Haaland’s goals
But elsewhere the scores dry up
And another coach’s head rolls

And so it is
That tetchy Tuchel takes leave
But do mighty Chelsea
Have a handy replace […]

Striker like poet
Blesses ‘net with poise n prose
Masterful finish

If not for you, I would never have made it to training, or to the match, or to the trials
If not for you, I would never have read my first word from the back page of your newspaper (Chelsea… and there began m […]

I watch the Tour de France highlights
with a “rouleur’s” relentless interest.
I gasp as a chain chinks
and sit appalled as a prime performer punctures…
so many junctures
and yet as the “domest […]

There’s a lot going on, out on the pitch
To-ing and fro-ing
Scenting and marking
A multitude of personal battles
As they hunt the ball

Look at this pair –
Chasing down the line
Shoulder to s […]

Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia
small towns, small teams
never featured in my dreams
but I feel for them right now
where the rampant fear, is that their touchlines
will be masked by tank tread-lines
spearheading an […]

We await, with baited breath
The deal of the decade
Nay, the deal of our history

We await, on pain of death
For a shining knight
To gallop to our rescue

We await, and all while, understand
How beyond […]

10/03/2022. The British Government adds Roman Abramovich to their sanctions list.
“It’s multi-layered, it’s huge and it affects every little area of the club.
It’s cataclysmic for Chelsea. It’s unprece […]

Who, or what
could be better than Messi?!?!

well…
try me
bed bound
in the dead of night
under the spotlight
like Walter Mitty
in a ditty