Football Poets

Chips with everything
Including me footie
Lob me another

He’s a prowler, in the box
Makes himself at home and won’t be shifted
And though he prowls and oft time growls –
He’s never reported – not to the police anyway
Although – one such prowler – Fowler – was.
No, this […]

If all the teams were one team
What a great team that would be!
If all the players were one player
What a great player that would be!
If all attacks were one attack
What a guaranteed win that would be!
If all the […]

It’s the time of year when all teams are on the same points and who knows…

How it will all end?
Tho we’ll just have to pretend
That we’re really in with a shout
For we rightly know that without
The star strik […]

Paparazzi
chasing The Blonde
Paparazzi
ever too fond

Enjoying the chase
in yer face
don’t know their place
need some space

But Royalty
is the light that draws them in
like moths on a mission, with altruistic a […]

We won ‘the Double’ this year
But it means nowt
Where once were Twin Towers
We win and yet pout

In an ‘if only’ season
We only win cups
But not the one we wanted
So in between sups …

We celebrate
And commiserate

In a League of Champions (gentlemen – Not!)
Only one man will matter
He with the absolute power of convergence
And the ability to make them scatter!

Of Scouser hue and Milanieri stripe
Titans will clash and […]

I’m a through and through true Blue
But I would willingly swap the trophy
Bedecked with winners ribbons of our own hue
In exchange for a tied yellow ribbon victory –
To see a young girl held aloft
In her Daddy’s […]

All season long
We searched for points
Won some, lost some
Played hard, fought hard
But always
There was a result

We search for Maddie
With hope in our hearts
But also despair, at the passing of each day
Let us […]

They’re in a silo (euphemism for football stadium);
in amongst an arsenal of
cannonball shots
rapier wit
and bulleted headers –
is the powder keg that is Mourinho;
the touchpaper, is an amalgam of, or indeed […]

Solo –
the best goalkeeper in the world, stands forlornly between the sticks
his presence scorned – four bullets fired – disguised as penalty kicks
Solo –
Prince Pepé Reina : a put-upon pauper in paparazzi […]

the tension required
a woodcutter’s axe
chop, chop, chop, chop …

We’ve a penchant for points
but so have they
we’re chasing hard
but Utd hold sway

And even on our travels
every day it’s a tease
we’re mindful of the tube tannoy
‘mind the gap please’

9-9-9
But it’s not yet an […]

Champions League Semi Final first leg, Stamford Bridge
a barnstorming match – or a Bram Stoker match?

The red mist will descend tonight
with Scousers skewering the Kings Road
in a kebab of kerfuffle and hope
with […]

Every team wants one
a little ball of puppy dog energy
yapping and snapping away at heels
and yet as loveable and loyal a servant
you couldn’t hope to meet

Nimble on his feet
and as fit as bedamned
a small […]

In the purview of punditry
he rules
he’s all purpose and poise
just as he was
when he bossed the box
18 yards by 44 back then
but now …
18″, 24″, 32″, 37″, 40″, 50″ …
LCD, Plasma or CRT
he’s still Mr Cool, for all to see

a Pelé pearl
in the purlieu of parlance –
Jogo Bonito

Languid and slothful
like a Texan drawl
there’s been some dreary ol’ nights
for my beloved football

Early season, mid season
late season end
there was nowt riding on it
so why pretend?

Nobody stepped up a […]

Who said football isn’t a one man game?
For José has just put Moon Utd in the frame
Suggesting that the Red Devils can lose their six point gap
Three against Chelsea –
and three against the man on the moonscape map

Annie would have sharpened the attack, with her knitting needles
And Dora would have injected pace, with her zimmer
If we include Gramps too, we’d add hope – if only a glimmer
And then the remaining eight –
should […]