Football Poets

Val ‘n Tyne
Kilmer and barcodes, twinned
inverse only

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Val ‘n Tyne
Doonican and barcodes
rocking chair time

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Val ‘n Tyne
Defence by Blue Peter:
sticky back paper!

Irish International soccer saviour? Giovanni … Trapattoni
Photograph the previous encumbent? Snap a phoney
Pat a fellow player on the back? Slap a cronie
In the past … selecting the Ice Cream Man? Cap a […]

Symbolism subbed in for solace
some modern day advertising was dropped
the support was all geared for succour
and not a commemorative shirt was swapped

the minutes silence was deafening
with scarves raised […]

Death came with it’s cloak
enveloping like a light-box lunching on it’s lensman

with each flashbulb pop
signalling another another soul to heaven

50 years ago – on a foul, foggy, fugged up, slushy, sleety, […]

Slush …
I didn’t know
who’d have thought it
with all that snow ….
and ice –
clogging up the wings?
or a convenient, chilling, pretext for a crash report?

Slush …
they’d have walked through it, when crossing the t […]

a swanky coach today
junkyard jalopy tomorrow
money no object for the tie
then it’s back to beg, steal or borrow!

it was almost as if
10 security guards
gave up their pitchside perimeter parking
to protect new papa Petr

for such was the luminous lick of their livery –
and when matched with Malouda’s oh so sweet delivery
and […]

I’m tired
and I wanna go to bed
I had a little drink
about an hour ago
and it’s ….
done nothing for my street cred

for I spluttered it you see
such was the shock
and surprise
even in the aftermath
of our […]

“You’re not singing anymore!”

a lusty rendition
from crusty cognition –
for the security corps
don’t allow us anymore
and soon it’ll only be them
that sing to condemn

and there’ll be no replying
for art of […]

The gravedigger does it
Every dog I know does it
But our striker doesn’t

Pipelayers do it
Telecoms engineers do it – so please dissect and discuss
Why is it our forwards fail us?

Murderers have been known to do […]

It’s 3 o’clock
Kick off time!

Only – it’s three in the morning
And a New Year is dawning

And the first chorus
Of a fabulous birdsong
Heralds hope and glory
And prosperity ‘ere long

Unfortunately, not every o […]

Substituted from the game
And at the same time, substituted from life
His all too early departure has our hearts aching
For his children and wife

x
mas
trees
figure in
all our minds
this time of year
and so does the fear of
relegation so lets hope your
own delegation in club kit keeps fit
stays off the turkey and stuffing laced
wiv cranberry sauce […]

Legends in looks
Rachael Unitt : Ian Dowie
Beauty and the Beast

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excitement and noise
stammering studs announce
eclectic entrée

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football club takeover
passengers eagerly queue
gravy train cometh

ten thousand poems?!?!
congrats to all
us purveyors of football
and one thousand poems alone?!?!
that puts Pete neck and neck
with Premiership goals –
and they’ve been at it twice as longer

good to know
that each […]

A game of two halves
lost the first
won the second;
so, with 3 points not even required
was it honours even
the draw desired?
Could it be inferred
that qualification followed?
Nah, both hope and pride […]

The Beautiful Game
taken to a higher plane
Planet heaven

Stan
Carries the can
When in truth
To a man
It’s the FAI
Who’ve brought Irish football
Down the pan

But now it’s Stan
Who’ll be unemployable
After a reign
Most unenjoyable
And so he’ll turn also-ran
For there […]

The wry ref rails –
Why me? What did I do wrong?
He should ask himself what did he do right –
For he got it all horribly Pete Tong

For example, a two footed challenge
Is normally a matter of inches
But Kuyt’s […]

ball mis-controlled
overstretch to recover
hamstring pings