Football Poets

Just what is it –
About our right back position
That brings such sameness
To the christened cognition?

Not so much Albert, Paulo and now Alvaro
But Ferrer, Fereira, Pereira
Is it so long ago
Since Locke and S […]

Your return
Brings such unbridled joy
Like a long lost puppy
Or an eternally missing toy

The excitement
Has built and built all week
Fortune telling to the fore
As into the future we peek

Will we contain […]

Danny Senda : unattached – joins Barnet, 27th July 2011

I played a pass to the full back
He trapped it nice and neat;
One of my better efforts –
Right to his feet!

But then he lost it
And I said to his face – […]

Not wishing to belittle
lives lost;
but “delicate political situations”
leave us as jumpy as – wives crossed

Acknowledging political turmoil
is a premise understood;
but to what extent
to keep foes apart? – h […]

12 yard spot
no matter what the gender
we’re cursed

From Karen Carney’s precise through ball
Young Ellen White dispatches with a lob
One – nil to Eng-erland
Puts us ahead – just the job!

Jess Clarke crosses
Ellen again, tries the spect […]

BBC Sport online:
Sepp Blatter was re-elected as president of FIFA for a fourth
four-year term on Wednesday 1st June 2011.

He won a landslide victory at FIFA’s 61st Congress by securing 186 votes out of 2 […]

Barack O’Bama wowed the Irish crowds with the Irish translation of his famous rallying cry!
Soon to be the most uttered ‘cúpla focal’ in modern Irish history, going forward 😉

With relegation finally sorted […]

Holy Moly
What drama it turned out to be
Last day deliberation
To work out the bottom three

Done and dusted
The Hammers already nailed
Firmly to the foot
They sit most positively impaled

But for the […]

Today was a day, when Mr King
Talked about a visit by Mrs Queen
A day when Kevin Prince Boateng’s brother faced eviction
And my own little princess, made me beam

Impressed by her brother’s new pyjamas
She kne […]

To own the goal – and surrounding box
Is the aspiration, the striker’s aim
The achievement of which
Brings everlasting fame

An owned goal – be it deflection
Scuffed, or toughed, or just being in the vicin […]

The striker attacked with stealth
and hit both posts –
’twas plane for all to see

Offside!
screamed the world –
with much impassioned plea

Then ten years later on
under the firm guiding hand
of a diverse […]

wall to wall wedding
bring on the real thing please
Match of the Day

wedded to the club
tying defenders in knots
til death do us part

3 different poems, after watching last night’s docudrama ‘United’ on BBC2, see notes below

From Munich, to Mexico, the Reds are marching on

I watched
and cried

Even though I knew – what the result was
that the […]

take a tear from each
a Hillsborough waterfall
never forgotten

I hurried home after work, having left later than intended
and listened to the Mancunian misanthrope Morrisey –
hoping against hope that by the end of the night
it would be Rooney, Giggs, Ferguson and co wallowing […]

I woke up this morning before the jangling alarm
Good sleep, winning dreams, felt as fresh as a daisy
Sun streaming in through the curtains
So yeah, I felt good

Did I mention the sun had his hat on?
With a full […]

When you’re all in it together
You need everyone to keep a cool head
The last thing that you want
Is to be flashed an early red

So, you lanky lummox
What on earth were you thinking!?
With those two rash […]

Required – Mr Fixit
Priority – to retain Football League status
The County board confirms
“Not even Conference teams rate us!”

With a dodgy back four
And a slew of scoreless strikers
They’d nearly do better
With […]