Football Poets

By half-time, be in a with a shout
By end of match, be smiling broadly
By end of season, be happy with whatever you have achieved
If it’s less than planned, be not too aggrieved
If it’s better than des […]

As I write
of Chelsea’s plight
the Beeb I cite
tittle-tattle trite:

It could be Sarri out
Santo in

But what would make me grin
Is a dream team – that could make us Champs:
Holland; Jody; and Lamps

You don’t expect the younger generation
To have their number put up
On God’s electronic board

When the good race is run, yes
But not subbed too early
To join Heaven’s horde

Justin Edinburgh
Mocked early […]

So where was the value, in last night’s victory?
Ok yes, another trophy
Another cache of millions, in prize-money
A three goal cushion
Bragging rights over North London rivals
And the delight in denying t […]

We see our boys
out on the pitch
giving their all
chasing the oppo
chasing the ball

we see our players
skillful and wilful
at the top of their game
but we see them having a ‘mare
and we mete out the b […]

Glory be the days
When we were young
And fun
Was on the menu

Glory be the days
When boots were grabbed
And anywhere at all
Was the venue

It’s always interesting
A National team appointment, north of the Border
Bringing with it, huge potential for disorder
For there’s always a focus, the ask: Blue or Green?
Or been down South, lately, or sin […]

Teresa May, she knew
that Brexit would prove problematic
in the EU

but Brexit
is absolutely NOT happening
in UEFA

Game of Duty:
take your pick, either or both, provided great drama
bettered again just days later
by ‘Pool beating Barca
only unbelievably
the drama ratcheted up even more, the following night
as Spurs […]

“Your Mission – should you choose to accept it
Is to beat Barcelona 4-0
Without Mo Salah
Without Bobby Firminho
And with Andy Robertson going off at half-time
And, with old-boys Coutinho and Chewy Luis gri […]

And so I took my prejudices
And sailed the skies
Across the mighty pond
Growing ever fond
Of the soft marshmallow clouds
That cushioned my mind
Taking me further and further away
From the daily […]

a son loved so much
Father joins him within months
God’s team up on high

Never forgotten…
even 30 years to the day
all those 97 souls
snatched, no longer to watch or play

Never forgotten…
even from continents away
as I hark back in my mind
with sheer and utter […]

With their captain at the helm
The Liverpool fans never worried
For their hard-hitting number 4
Was hewn from rock, as per Shankly.. “aye, quarried”

They said that Merseyside mothers kept his picture on the […]

“Rip it up and start again, I said rip it up and start aah_gain!”

So nice of Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice,
To write a prescient song,
About my poetic inability!

He must have taken a look at my foo […]

an act of dissent
meant
disbarment
to the bench
while the stench
of mutiny
lingered

Sarri fingered
as dead man walking
meanwhile Kepa?
treated
like a leper

Of all the saves
In all the games
It had to be Pelé

Of all the discussions
In all the bars
GOAT, is normally the great divider

Greatest player, greatest manager
Greatest team, greatest final
Greatest […]

oh the sordid satire of screaming sinew!
and the blistering bantz of boots belying “buy new”