Football Poets

Steve McLaren talks of
Surfaces, bounces, stats and Prozone
He says he’s not laying a foundation of excuses …
But that’s enough bull to break through th’ ozone

Whereas Joe Cole says :
“For me, the ball is g […]

“Sitting in the morning sun
Watching the tide roll away…”
Whistling along to the tune
But all I really want to do is play

~#~

I like to read other people’s poetry
To see how they draw their inspiration
And […]

There I was driving home late
I catch the radio update
But not one I want to hear
Causes me to dangerously veer
One behind, only nine minutes in
And you can hear the Mestalla din
Well, that’s us done for, a […]

The Bible has it
That God took a rib from Adam
To conjure up Eve

That being so
He must have taken Gerd Muller’s boots
To conceive …

Birgit Prinz

Germany wins

A pity
I was rooting for the flair o […]

Marta, Prinze, Smith – new football icons
gushing geishas in the Beautiful Game
proving that in this new order
the old heavyweights are pretty much just the same!

How do you write a poem with no words?

Consider the Special One now, as
The Silent One

There’s nothing else to be done
When one has reached the point of no return
Crossing is now not an option
However many thousands may entreaty and yearn

And so how to extricate
From this god forsaken corner by the […]

Hope springs eternal
Kelly Smith leaps like a salmon
We’re in the pink!

Quote from the German team coach :

“I hope that streak continues, but it will be a tough game,” said Germany coach Silvia Neid.
“But the game against England will be a totally different game. England is good […]

There are times when the head’s not right
And the mouth gets muddled
When the truth is disguised
Because the brain is befuddled

When the real cause is a miscarriage
Then football’s ‘justice’ is not an […]

I lifted her up in my arms
My doting daughter deep asleep
In my limb locked cradle

I blessed the deity who smiles upon us

Yet not everyone shares my fortune
For instance, the McCann’s
And given the day that’s in […]

You shocked the mighty Leeds
With your FA Cup winner
You became a household name
We even talked of you over dinner

You’ll forever be remembered
Part of the folklore of ’73
And on Wearside they mourn you
That much […]

Italia 90 :
It’ll long be remembered
For all the big moments …
Pearce’s penalty miss
Packie Bonner’s penalty save
O’Leary’s penalty conversion
Irish pubs’ submersion
Platt’s over the shoulder hook
Gazza’s l […]

goodbye Olly
if Sheri was the canapes, you
were always the Bolly

There is a Portuguese saying that loosely translates into :

“There is no endless misery neither everlasting happiness.”

Try telling that to the McCann’s
Or to Rhys Jones’s family
Neither can see beyond the […]

Shorey looked assured
Robbo was done by a lobbo
Seaneen cannot be ignored
Micah’s just the jobbo

But we must not Pander
To the ne’ersayers
We have who we have
Now it’s up to the players

On the ball
off the ball
to the ball
with the ball
… in the ball?

Ball to feet
throughball
square ball
screwball …
it’ll come to no harm
head the ball
meet the ball
greet ’em all
… with ball tucked under arm […]

What a pity
That Derby isn’t like Manchester –
Or is that actually a blessing?

Forgive me
For my woeful wanderings
And my metaphorical messing

But I was alluding
To a twin presence
A la City and United

So what […]

Georgie Best:
You just knew he was a superstar
For he never beat the same man once

My laces;
Such a challenge in my youth
So it was left to the nimble fingered, to conjure the dark magic
Of knots and bows

Then came the frustrations
Of self administration
Fumbling fingers floundering
And new […]