Football Poets

the George Cross flags are all now strangely absent
I sense nor see no wild hysteria here
the local pubs are closing down and struggling
It’s getting hard to to see games anywhere
but I’ve got all I need at home […]

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valleys ring with pride

Rovers reach to grasp their dream

time to make it real

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if you love the World

there’s a club more greener than

grass upon the pitch

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some […]

odds against them from the start
all outweighed with passion..heart
rule books torn up patterns crashed
tiny budget records smashed
proved the fans and pundits wrong
dilly ding…dilly dong

Ranieri Mr Nice
even […]

Shall I compare thee to a summer buy ?
Thou art more gifted and more rare.
Tough games do come so fast and seasons fly,
And summer’s break so short doth seem each year.

Sometimes so bright that long sought t […]

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in that one sweet move

we’ll remember Johan Cruyff

ev’ry time we turn

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Osgood is good

we would bellow from the Shed

how we miss the King

so how do you feel now your papers have come
and the moment is finally here
when you’ve waited so long it went on and on
for this country to call you to War
when it’s time to forget the life you have known
your […]

flying high upon the hill
where sheep will graze and time stands still
we pinch ourselves and have to stop
pretending we’re not at the top

the silence broken with a roar
the joy from fans each time we score
we h […]

there are Llamas in a field beside the entrance
and they’re posing for the passing crowd who stare
there’s a big red bus that’s serving drinks and nibbles
and a festival-like feeling in the air

you can say that […]

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still a name that springs

as he did back in the day

Big Ron had it all

warn your partner
warn your friends
August football’s
back again

premier league
to grass roots
gold designer
or old boots

fans are streaming
from the station
touts clean up
across the nation

Stamford Bridge
to […]

“the whole stand is on fire” he cried upon my radio
but how it started to this day we still may never know
and who here can imagine the fear the heat the pain
but pray that such a day as this will never dawn […]

you in those long shorts
on scrapbook pages and walls
always my hero

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to ape your swivel
on concrete fields by street light
how I tried and tried

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blurred in blue and white
you dancing past def […]

I always wanted to be Jimmy Greaves
it wasn’t the pace the shimmy or the flair
or even those baggy shorts to die for
it was the goals
and in my scrapbook with flour for glue
all those first cuttings were of ‘ […]

my mate Rob don’t like to talk about it
not because he’s wiped it from his mind
when he woke he remembered nothing
of that dark and awful tragic time

my mate Rob don’t like to blame nobody
he’s just glad to be h […]

a hundred miles away from Kev
but we kicked ev’ry ball
it’s the finishing… or lack of it
that gets us most of all
it’s like the run in ten years back
when Jose’s hair was black
but in The Vic on Sunday
we went […]

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tougher than old boots

heartbeat in a mighty side

way back in the day

fortress at the back

giant lynchpin in defence

Scotland Hearts and Spurs

there in golden times

when the Spurs went marchin’ […]

appalled by such behaviour
embarassed by our fans
the hatred shown in Paris
our heads are in our hands
and though they are minority
we know without a doubt
we still have many miles to go
to kick this […]

Look at those numbers that’s the way you do it
You watch your football on Sky TV
Forget the fans that’s the way you do it
In an auction with them and BT
This ain’t workin’ but that’s the way you do it
Money means […]

if you were alive child woman or man
you remember the day still
like yesterday like Lennon like Kennedy
or the day we landed on the moon
the day we woke to realise
we’d lost a football team

that moment when […]