There’s a lot going on, out on the pitch To-ing and fro-ing Scenting and marking A multitude of personal battles As they hunt the ball Look at this pair – Chasing down the line Shoulder to shoulder Arms linked Eventually, dead-ended into the corner, with Thighs and butts buffeting – as if duetting on a […]

Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia small towns, small teams never featured in my dreams but I feel for them right now where the rampant fear, is that their touchlines will be masked by tank tread-lines spearheading an attacking force that bears no resemblance to any team sheet we could endorse; that goalmouths would be pitted with potholes penalty […]

We await, with baited breath The deal of the decade Nay, the deal of our history We await, on pain of death For a shining knight To gallop to our rescue We await, and all while, understand How beyond football’s corner flags – Putin’s purge ravages another land Some among us, chant Giving thanks to […]

10/03/2022. The British Government adds Roman Abramovich to their sanctions list. “It’s multi-layered, it’s huge and it affects every little area of the club. It’s cataclysmic for Chelsea. It’s unprecedented.” Confucius, he say: “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations” So let a Roman road lead our vaunted owner away So that an alternative path, […]

Who, or what could be better than Messi?!?! well… try me bed bound in the dead of night under the spotlight like Walter Mitty in a ditty