Football Poets

Stevie G heads home
JT lifts the cherished trophy
the first of many?

Captain Marvel,
(as some of us still remember him) :
Bryan Robson : Mystic Manager
(how is he still in a job, wonder a younger generation?) –
fought long and hard
but broached no bard (that we know of)
to […]

Santa Cruz
Vera Cruz
Tom Cruise

Cruz 101
Syracuse
Penelope Cruz

Caribbean cruise
Boat crews
Cruise missile

Good job
Daddy doesn’t play
For Plymouth Argyll

Pity Daddy didn’t
head to Brazil (in bandana) –
driven […]

Tell me a word
that you’ve often heard,
and how you know it’s not right
when it’s the opposite of white

Tell me a name
you heard at the game,
that left sensibilities shredded
sneering at parents unwedded

May […]

They played with smiles on their faces
And liberty in their laces
Ronaldinho & Shevchenko, each led a dream eleven
A charity match for all those sent, by tsunami to heaven

GOAL! And everyone smiled
GOAL! And […]

No, not the result
though 5-1 versus Palace
was emphatic enough

No, not the number of bulls
butchered
for the burgers

No, not the prawns
sandwiched
between gluttony and greed

No, not the grapes
harvested in […]

With Henry Terry
they made merry
introducing a comical notion –
but sense prevailed
before the righteous railed
at such a racist potion

For if the easily led
where to have read
this provocative football fable […]

Black and white halves
join the scarves
of the ordinary fans
up in the stands

A one off kit
adorns the fit
bodies of the Dutch
so racially in touch

Let’s hope it works
and the boo-boy berks
(everywhere)
GET THE MESSAGE

We’d travelled
a hundred miles or more
but we came away from the ground
without the tenure of a score

And no it wasn’t ejection
that had us so dismayed;
but the fact, with kit intact
that it wasn’t even […]

I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts –
Cropped, from palm fringed beaches
To a curtain call, of drop dead gorgeous sunsets
The sort that adorn, every glossy tourist brochure
Only these are for real
And the sun […]

10 wonderful years
in this womb of bricks and mortar called ‘home’

Tony had been the first
(visitor)
to set foot across the threshold

He’d heard that I
‘played ball’

I had –
a patsy
to my wife’s ambition

A 4 […]

This Christmas
We woke to more than just presents –
A carpet of snow, a gift from nature
All too soon hoovered up
By young excited hands
Fighting off the equally energized
Patriarchal mitts
In a frenzy of white […]

Come mid May
in Cardiff
at the Millennium Stadium
we’ll see ’em running, jumping, leaping –
football’s finest
and the victorious
will come away
with the FA
Cup trophy.

But last night
I saw team ‘Parkour’
on the […]

Conundrum :
The great god Mammon – I mean ManUtd
At home, nil – all, into injury time
All of a sudden
The ball is out of control
Mendes has skied it
Carroll has spilled it
But clawed it out just before it hits the […]

*
atop
a tree.
Below :
football fan
worried as can be.
Oh I do hope there are
more presents than rhymes
for Christmas
I’d hate it, just hate it, if all I got
from Santa
Was a Kevin Keegan doll. I wannabe […]

St Stephen’s Day –
(Boxing Day, for the post plum pudding pugilists)
Tired of turkey trimmings, mince pies and mistletoe
And too far away from a real match, to hear the whistle blow
The locals emerged, bloated and […]

Fans everywhere turn and laugh at me
Goals have run dry, as you can see
Very little sympathy from football’s bourgeoisie
But my wish on Christmas Eve is as plain as can be

All I want for Christmas
is my two […]

‘Arry
Must “nick or borrer”
To strengthen

José
Will “acquire”
Only if necessary

Rupert Lowe baulks
But when it comes down to the wire
Money talks

And thus, the more morose Mourinho
By definition
Must be a real chatterbox

Well, that’s fine then
A polite request
Respectfully met;

So if the Grecians
Should find the net
In their FA Cup meeting

Then their celebrations
(More likely fleeting)
Will not reflect

Their sponsor’s […]

A curve ball
I trap it on my chest
A sweeper, catenaccio, doing his job
Up to me, to cut it out

But not this time –
This ball is foreign
This ball is expanding
This ball is invading
No amount of sweeping, will […]