Football Poets

World Cup Sonnet

What does it mean, to the youth of today
All this talk, of classic World Cups past
Of legends they never saw play
And unaware, of the dreams that were made to last?
They’ve listened, with awe a […]

Brazil 1-0 Turkey

This, their second meeting
Turkey, took their beating
So, Germany will be greeting –
Brazil, please Rivaldo, no more cheating
Any more funny antics, and we’ll all be bleating
Sukur, offered n […]

Five – one
Now that was fun
To put it mildly
Oh, how we celebrated so wildly

But one – nil?
They sure know the drill
World Cup finalists once more
Oh, how it rocks us to the core

The Hun stun, and give us the […]

Controversy rages
Across the sports pages
As Portugal, Italy and Spain
Who all had pretensions to reign
Bristle with indignation, at their elimination
To South Korea, a team so full of determination
But these […]

Quarter Finals

Spain v South Korea
Senegal v Turkey

Spain 0 South Korea 0 South Korea win 3-0 on penalties

The lottery of penalties!
After extra time
Spain, were physically spent
The hard currency, of stamina, […]

I have a yen, to paint the walls
so effusive is my mood
and for my palette, sweated drops
from football tops

for a room, of doom and gloom
I’ll plump for morose maroon
stencil the borders, with Portuguese M […]

Out with the old, in with the new
That at least, seems to be the populist view
But in fact, the final two contestants, could be
Those old foes, Brazil versus Germany
Despite the presence of one co-host
Those two […]

Sore, as in battered and bruised
And still confused
As to how they lost
Too late, they learn at their cost
That fortune favours the brave
Whenever knight battles knave

Sore, as in bad losers
Petulant […]

Quarter Finals

England v Brazil
Germany v USA

England 1 Brazil 2

A pony-tail, weighs heavily upon the shoulders
As does a Nations hopes
Brazil, are the last team you want to be facing
When you’re fighting to g […]

Paraguay 0 Germany 1

Paraguay
could not fly
‘uber alles’
so now it’s home they journey
via the hub of Dallas

England 3 Denmark 0

I @ play 11 am BST

in the agonising hours
of the pre-match build up
after the d […]

Hasan Sas
He’s no jackass
To slake his thirst
He scored the first
Made the second
He’s so fecund

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Brazil, just didn’t look right
in socks blue, and shorts white
their lower halves, reversed
but of cours […]

Rest day.
Best day?
No way!

They’ve played.
We’ve prayed.
Is God swayed?

I

Who would have thought it?
England qualify with ease
But Argentina have bought it!

England qualify with ease –
What a wonderful thought –
But would it be right to tease?

Money cannot buy success
But a ban […]

Last round of the group matches start today

from here on in, it’s do or die
so I guess that’s why
France
took a chance
on the readiness, of the World’s best
ignoring the failed fitness test
and so it is, that […]

USA 2 Mexico 0

another day, another dollar
“watch the Dow Jones!”, they holler
but now that their stock is rising
after some results so surprising
the traders text, via their cell phones
“hey dude, watch out f […]

Italy 1 South Korea 2 (golden goal by Ahn)

Italy, pithily
Succumb.
Numb,
With fear,
Their rear-guard,
Once so hard,
Punctured,
At this juncture,
By little Ahn

Exit, stage left.
Stage fright,
Just […]

Portugal 4 Poland 0

the monsoon started
as the heavens parted
and the rain poured
but the Portuguese struck a chord
they hit four, for no reply
and its not hard to see why
a hat-trick from Pauletta
no-one could […]

Mexico v Ecuador
Costa Rica v Turkey
Japan v Russia

So, today, no big names
Except, maybe
Nigmatullin, Beschastnykh, Kerimoglu, Yanagisawa
But there’s still dreams
For these unfancied teams
Everything to play f […]

South Africa v Slovenia
Croatia v Italy
Brazil v China

I

Radebe
Hadda be
On top of his game
Even though Slovenia, were incredibly lame
Far too tame
Missing their one big name
Who let his fame
Go to his head, and […]

England 1 Argentina 0

“They think it’s all …….. done and dusted”
John Motson, with a new spin on an old cliché
The Argentine jinx, finally busted
And wildly celebrated, twixt Highbury and The Shay

And lets not b […]