Football Poets

“One second –
Just one ridiculous second!”

but what a tick-in-time
in a match peetering out
heading for stalemate
until a magic moment
swings the game
and a Cloughie truism
is borne again
melts into our […]

all you need is glove
altogether now
all you need is glove, glove, glove
glove is all you need

well i’m sorry John / Paul
that’s not actually true
there’s no end of talent or agility required
to be a fully paid […]

The Western Seaboard
has been well and truly annexed
exiled into an UEFA hinterland
no Celtic shores
no Viking roars
just Gallic flaws
our only hope …
Iberian Conquistadors!

QF4 : Italy 0 – 0 Spain (Spain win 4-2 on pens)

The Boxtrot

Slow, slow
Q… no, too risky
Square, square, slow

Slow, slow
Q… no, too daring
Keep on squaring
Square, square, slow

Slow, slow
Q… no chanc […]

QF1 : Portugal 2 – 3 Germany

Offensively awesome
Defensively dour
But dour douses Deco
And as for Ronaldo?
Just an empty echo

He must have forgotten
To set his a-Lahm
For all he did was sleepwalk
Leaving […]

Group C
has buried its dead
and the pallbearers
continue their death-march
onto the next venue
where the Swedes
are already off the menu

Day 10
Poland 0 – 1 Croatia
Austria 0 – 1 Germany

Oh Vienna – a Midge Ure haiku?

A Ballack belter
Blitzkriegs the back of the net
Goodnight Vienna!

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Day 11
Holland 2 – 0 Romania

Cosmin Contra […]

Euro 2008 – Day 4 – Fight analogy

Ding, ding
End of Round One
Already so many aching joints
And it’s the heavyweights ahead on points
Does anyone else have a puncher’s chance?
Perhaps ex-Champs France?
Italy will […]

from G spot
to ‘W’ formation
Coleen gets her man

So our own diligent Thomas
is not part of Roman’s plans
maybe a Crispi couplet loses out
when Scolari scans

I have it!
Yes I definitely have it!
Have it sussed
Without a doubt
Unquestionably
Emphatically
Unfalteringly
It’s as clear as day now
No more befuddlement
You’re offside when ….
Firstly you need to be beyond t […]

Right, I’m decided –
I don’t care who wins, so I’m staying neutral
And as to our absence
I’m sure the feeling’s mutual

But nevertheless it could be fun
To watch from afar
So who is it I reckon
Will have the last […]

Well we’ve seen Motty looking dotty
All cuddled in his coat
And José looking jazzy
With snappy rent-a-quote!

All dapper for the snapper
Wrapped in Matalan
With a new captive audience
Rapt in Milan!

And so Roman […]

The pitch up on the moon
Lies dusty and bare
Still waiting for the away team to show
Hence the atmosphere’s rare

hopes soar
like a freed balloon
defeat a pin-prick

Gutted.
Gutted.
Gutted.
Gutted.
Gutted.
Gutted.

How do I feel?
As though I’ve descended into the gutter
then been swept down the drain
plunged into the sewers
slipped in slime
been kissed by rats –
and that’s […]

I’m a pessimist by nature
An obdurate craitur
But I really DO want us to win

I’m optimistic I’ll smile
If we win in a while
I DO want that Cheshire cat grin

I’ll chant and I’ll cheer
But cry into beer
If defeat […]

finale looms
big match nerves do strange things
to hardened prose

Quick!
A pen!
Scrap of paper!
I have an idea
Flashing by faster than Ronaldo
Flitting past me as craftily as McGeady
I wanna capture it, as stoutly as Maldini
Before it goes sailing over my head, like Seaman
I […]

They breed heroes in Glasgow
Toughened men of steel
They drape them in one or other colour
To only one half they appeal

But now the city unites in grief
As the dark sky returns
For there’s an extra twinkling up […]