Football Poets

Picture it : the manager and his captain
In the ‘Good Old Days’, in sepia tone
There’d be an old leather ball, a pipe and capstans
Then post war
It’d be a cigar and champers
But bring it right up to date
An […]

Sven, must be the hottest man about town
for there’s an iced blonde maiden, bedding down
and spreading, salacious details
but countered, by a little number off the rails
a dark haired Latin beauty
does more than h […]

K keepy up football
I is impossible, in a
C crass, cold, climate, of
K knowing racism

I intuitively, we
T temper

O our
U untold patience, with a
T tenacious tackle

What a surprise
Dennis Wise
In trouble again

With a cracking shot
To the jaw
He sent Callum Davidson
To the floor

But due to decisive action
This fraction, of a man
Will never again pester
The players of […]

Cantona’s moment of madness
Was soccer’s split second of sadness
But he certainly didn’t demean us
With his many flashes of genius

what a brilliant wind-up
“put that in your next book”
mimes Jason McAteer
ignoring, the look
that brings such fear
to so many opponents
from a man, who has his moments
of raging red mists
with a mind that des […]

I walked along the streets, of London town
Up and down, up and down
I met a little fan in London town
And I said, can you tell me please
Where’s that love I never found?
Unravel me this riddle
What is love, what c […]

As it is in heaven…
The sound, of cherubic angels
Chorused, all around the ground
The plaudits, were all mine
The adulation, was divine
As the mercurial hero, stooped, and took his bow
In adoration, the meek w […]

there he was
just over Martin O’Neill’s shoulder
attentive in the seats
focused on the game
an ordinary punter –
but there was something different about him
his eyes, were looking up to the sky
not following the […]

O Beckhamo, Beckhamo, wherefore art thou Beckhamo?
You roam, along the periphery of the action
Thrusting, with deep, meaningful, deliveries
Yet you crave a central berth, Canal Plus and all the other tv […]

There were some venerable names in the frame
Young and ambitious men, who had much to offer, to the game
Full of energy and forward thinking
Eschewing the culture, of laddish drinking
But Ridsdale and the […]

We are
Where the good footballers are –
Locked away in our memory banks
Where we can so readily give them thanks
And praise, to those that brought us joy
From small beginnings, whether girl or boy
We can always […]

Shall I compare thee to a summers break?
A nasty intrusion to our football watching
When there is not a jot at stake
Save transfer talk and rumour scotching
Thou art more slovenly and more temperamental
Rough […]

I

Desperately seeking Busan

I scanned the ads, and my heart skipped a beat
‘Desperately Seeking Busan’, looked a treat
missing, is not the word
how absurd
that with all my heart, I still hanker after Seo […]

The following Haiku, dedicated to, among others, Matt Holland,
Kevin Kilbane, David Connolly, Stuart Pearce, Chris Waddle,
Gareth Southgate, David Batty, Roberto Baggio, Joaquin

Pain of penalty shootouts […]

The rather large lady
Has projected her ample voice
And I’ve been subjected, purely by choice
To a whole month, of morning, or daytime, tv
Now, there’s months of mourning, until once again I see
Footy on the tel […]

Brazil 2 Germany 0

The way a World Cup Final should be :

feet up, beers in, kids out
all the pre-match preamble digested
then regurgitated into friendly banter
between tanked up tipsters,
upping the ante on a […]

12 noon IST

the streets of Ireland are empty, but the pubs are jammers
filled with fans in fancy hats,
with painted faces and inflatable hammers
the craic is mighty, the drink is flowing
opinions and forecasts, […]

Well, did it finish 3-1?
Demands for a family picnic, dictated that I become
One of those feckless people, who leave before the end of a match
And didn’t it just, serve me right, natch
To miss out, on an e […]

With the World markets collapsio
All around our earlobes, then perhapsio
With this game, that capturivates the imaginaccio
Of all the people peepers around the globule
We could look forward to watching, the very […]