Football Poets

A painted field
footballers like birds and bees
pollinating dreams

Hola, Mr Zola
Your career stats, make for impressive reading
But that’s not why, my heart is bleeding
No, for you’ve finally announced your retirement
and with true class, being my edifying requirement
my soul, is […]

I arrive home, merrily singing
My voice, carries aloft
Long forgotten, are passes pinging
Furthest from my mind, is Gary Croft

Annabel though, aah!
A different beast
On her backhand return
I’d love to […]

Let me be the first to welcome you
Asier del Horno
And let’s get this out in the open – you’ll
Forever be saddled with the codicil ‘porno’

An unfortunate soubriquet, granted
But between the rhyme and the […]

~ i ~

Figurative speech
Eagles choke, bulldogs chew wasps
Face like Iain Dowie

~ ii ~

Invented phrase
Bouncebackability
Prove it

Startled awake, by the hungry demands of a toddler,
I grumpily toddle off, empty ‘boppa’ in hand, to the
fridge, when only moments before, I was lustily

cheered on at the Bridge. Upon reaching the kitchen
what […]

One man went to mow
Went to mow a meadow
Good God it’s Haiku!

bewitching wingers
from Garrincha to Nevin
generations roared

I thought that I’d be writing a few words
also hoped it would be in praise of the ladies
from the land of St George

The praise is forthcoming alright
for gallant losers (so undoubtedly English), but praise too
to […]

Army abandons Excocet
Just give us Roberto Carlos
And a ball instead

Monsieur Vieira
ees un well respectéd homme
an ee seets upom
le throne d’ambassadorr;
les Afriques, dites
“je t’adore”
à Patreek –
Mais non
son adversaire
le Roi Keane
qui frappé
“well,
jouer pour Senegal – […]

‘E would, ya know
Go on, give over, ‘e wouldn’t be seen dead, with a lezzie in tow
Que?
You know, one of them butch types
I don’t much care, for your sexist snipes.
It’s not wha’ I said, it’s not wha’ I […]

Teenage wonderkid
Sets the pulses racing once more
But it’s not Rooney

Teenage sensation
Lifts the England team by the boot laces
But it’s not Rooney

A nation rejoices
A new name resonates from their lips
It’s Karen Carney

If he goes, I go
Ergo
We all go

Kicked off by todays press release :
Barnsley manager Andy Ritchie says there is no truth in speculation that he wants to sign Swindon Town midfielder Sammy Igoe.
Ritchie told […]

and this feast of a season was supposed to be over!

Of course
I played my last card too early
Watching the unthinkably unmissable
Champions League incREDible Final
When I was supposed to be elsewhere …
“But […]

We expected :
A peerless Pirlo
A mighty Maldini
A crisp Crespo
A nascent Nesta
A chuffed Cafu
A didactic Dida

We half expected :
A barren Baros
A calamitous Kewell
A hapless Hyppia
A shabby Alonso
A lost Garcia […]

They’ll celebrate long and hard
In Glasgee’s blue hinterland
For a Championship is a Championship
However much unplanned

And they’ll celebrate in song
Dedicated to yon Alexander McLeish
They’ll hone them and […]

We’d expect nothing less
From the doggerel deliverer in sheepskin coat
A germaine fact for every situation
And as for match day ‘must have’ – he gets my vote

Don’t know how he managed it
But he even worked in a […]

burgers, pasties, ketchup
wrappers, cans, plastic cups
tv, radio, red tops
lights, camera, action!
a media frenzy
feeding
like the crowd –
gluttonously;
presenters, punters, posers
listeners, viewers : the fans […]

A new house, new back garden
fields and forests, welcome boundaries.
I awake, to a cheerful caress – the coo-coo of the wood pidgeon –
the same dawn chorus
that this city boy, loved to stir to, when holidaying on […]