Football Poets

Lord be kind
To the lad prone there on the pitch
We worry for his health
He lies too still, wi’ nary a twitch

He just crumpled
But it’s real and not simulation
Please assist the medics
As they urgently apply the […]

Glued to the radio ….
So old hat
Nowadays it’s the interweb
For draw chit ‘n chat

It’s still auntie beeb though –
Picking up their live feed
Plus an insight
To another’s daring deed

A century of centuries […]

“A big occasion, needs big performances”
and that is what we got
the senior ranks, like mighty tanks
fair stops the rot

And maybe the biggest performance of all?
the stroke of a pen …. a pithy poet?
no, teams […]

Lionel Messi
conjures magic
feet for wands

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blockade planned
defences set to stifle
Messi breaks the mould

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Pelé
Maradonna, Messi
Holy Trinity

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just genius
no other word
comes […]

you’d swear
he’s looking for a square
in the back of the netting

so precise
is his finishing
in any verdant setting

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Good Lord

no fancy celebrations
no beating on the chest
no shifting of the shi […]

“It’s rather euphonious. It trips off the tongue. It’s a cunningly conceived run-on word.”

“There’s something about the polysyllabic nature of it that makes you want to move to it. It makes language exciting, it […]

There is a house, down Fulham way
they called the ‘Rising Sun’
and it’s been the ruin of many a poor fan
and God, I know, I’m one

A football club was spawned there
and they played in a lighter hue
with shorts dow […]

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The site is 12 years old now, and written in old technology.
Our host […]

Saturday, February 11th 2012

Well, it must have been discussed
For it was definitely expected
And the cameras were all keenly trained
So the clasping could be detected

In the event, the match day mascot got […]

Wednesday 8th February 2012

Early doors –
a conviction loomed
and one assumed
that a guilty verdict
would leave ‘Arry ‘andicapped
for a job so bittersweet
it should come candy wrapped

and Fabio
only needed “eeny […]

The stampede –
An impressive sight when viewed across the African plains
But in a vista of steel and concrete
Death cruelly clanks its chains

And all the more despicable
That thuggery be the instigator
With w […]

League Cup, Tuesday 24th January 2012, Cardiff City v Crystal Palace

Cup semi-final
2nd leg
90 minutes up
All square
Extra-time…
Still level
One goal each
None scored away
Penalties!
Drama
Tension m […]

There’s a glimmer
In the eye
Let go the zimmer
And feel spry!

Recall to action
Just like Scholes
Strut again
And score goals!

Va-va-voom
Thierry encore
Hear the screams
“Je t’adore!”

In my dreams
It’s me as wel […]

There I was –
Transfixed

A painted line in the grass
That I wasn’t allowed to cross
But all I wanted to do
Was go hug Daddy

He lay there writhing
And screaming
In agony and pain
And it pierced my heart

I nev […]

Flip it
And does her Maj
Pontificate?

Or regale us
With the minutiae
Of the rule book?

Flip it
And does Mrs Windsor
Hold forth?

Or would her own take
Of a decried decree
Be ruled offside?

go
get
goals
galore
score ‘n
roar lustily
and with gusto
cheer on your team
with a righteous fervour
be more than a casual observer
but above all – enjoy the football !
xxx
xxx

Exchanging presents – instead of bullets
Pleasantries – rather than death-knells

Exchanging tackles – instead of tanks
Goals – rather than grenades

Exchanging passes – instead of poison
Shooting to score – rat […]

It was the long, long legs
And the short, short, shorts
The unconventional beard
The chain smoking
The philosopher’s soubriquet
The intelligence
The doctorate
The appearance for Garforth Town at age 50
But above a […]

They used to be there –
wrecked on the rec, risible rods of rust
held together, by sticky tape or ties…

with the target markers confined to history
we learned to make our own – ‘garments for goals’ […]

Moneyday
Chooseday
Wingersday
Spursday
Fryattday
Blatterday
JiSunParkday

Chooseday?
A certain someone, has turned selective
That Argy bargy, will invite invective

Howandever:
No matter what the name, of the […]