Football Poets

The drummer boy is there every home game
Lifting the fans with his rhythm and beat
He gets the supporters singing the songs
Clapping their hands and moving their feet.

The moaning fan is there every home game
And […]

One night a footballer had a dream
He dreamed he was walking along the pitch with the Boss.
Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene, he noticed two sets of bootprints in the pitch,
One […]

Yet another International break
They really knock me off my stride
I’ve really had enough of England
I only want to watch my home town side.

I was once a big Three Lions fan
But now I find them irritating and a […]

What about all of the hardcore supporters
Sticking with their clubs through thick and thin
Having to endure endless seasons of misery
When they lose more games than they ever win.

And mega respect to all the non […]

And what about the casual part time supporter
Who turns up out of the blue and sits in your seat
That’s the one you’ve bought a season ticket for
And not for a fairweather “fan” from off the street.

And why do […]

Crispin’s got a point you know
Advertising can be well over the top
I thought we’d come to watch the football
Instead of being told where to shop.

But that’s not all that can irritate
What about stewards who […]

Every football club has a mascot
You see them at every game
They often dress up as animals
And they’ve all got a nickname.

There’s Lofty the lion at Bolton Wanderers
At Coventry an Elephant called Sky Blue […]

Coventry City Football Club
The team that I support
From Ninety Sixty Four
Up till the present day.

I love the Sky Blues
Even when they let me down
Which is quite often
But I’ll always be there.

I’m not […]

So England have won the World Cup
Winning every game along the way
Gerrard and all his fellow stars
Showed the world how to really play.

Wayne Rooney was on fire
As was the brilliant Emile Heskey
The fans back […]

England nincompoops
A bunch of namby-pambys
Arrogant poseurs.

Overpaid players
Should have left them over there
Do charity work.

Rooney and the rest
Should apologise to fans
Pay their travel fare.

Need a break […]

What a poor World Cup
Germany Lion tamers
England are back home.

Players are tired
Blaming it on long season
And the ball as well.

Lots of excuses
Workmen blaming their own tools
Called passing the buck.

Just […]

HAIKU.

England looking poor
Three kittens now on badge
Lions lacking bite.

Slovenia next
England have got to beat them
Not on current form.

Rooney looking tired
Left his scoring boots at home
He seems […]

Not a swarm of bees
And not thousands of locusts
It’s Vuvuzelas.

A deafening noise
Over hundred decibels
Turn the telly down.

A Vuvuzela
To some it’s just like Marmite
Love it or hate it.

We had our […]

Butter fingers Green
Took his eyes of the football
New calamity.

Since Peter Shilton
Not had a solid keeper
Need a Gordon Banks.

And also upfront
Want a Jimmy Greaves or Hurst
Do not score enough.

Rooney barren […]

For World Cup football
You need to be fit and strong
To watch all the games.

Eat plenty of fibre
Only drink beer watching England
Get plenty of sleep.

Do exercises
Get up from sofa and stretch
Sit-ups and […]

Red and white bunting
Three lions on football shirts
England baseball caps.

Pub is packed solid
The landlord dressed as Saint George
I can’t see the screen.

The whole pub erupts
England player must have […]

Football poetry
Verse on the beautiful game
Football scribes delight.

Fans from all around
Writing about their own club
In poetic way.

A decade of words
And going from strength to strength
Many more years […]

Well would you believe it ?
Blackpool are on their way up
The Seasiders are in the Premiership
They beat Cardiff to lift the play off cup.

Next season they’ll be playing
Man United, Arsenal, and Chelsea
Let’s […]

Saturday July 30th 1966
England versus West Germany
The World Cup Final
I was twelve years old.

Mum and Dad and the dog
I’m lying down on the carpet
Sister is upstairs in her room
It’s three o’clock in the […]

Chris Coleman has gone
The chairman showed him the door
A ruthless business.

Fans had seen enough
Two years of going nowhere
A change was needed.

Managers on list
We’ve all got our favourite
To get the hot […]