Football Poets

two hours of our lives
we cannot get back again
oh when will we learn?

great expectations
ev’ry single time will bring
great disappointments

pass forward and back
pass forward and back again
we’re all bored to […]

in this special land
where they struggle to survive
forced to just endure …

pass and move.. goal ! goal !
pass and move …goal ! goal ! goal !
pass and move…..goal ! goal !

when the penny drops
there’s no […]

Di Stéfano’s gone
with him goes another time
when we watched in awe

there in black and while
tearing Eintracht clean apart
on that magic night

in 1960
Alfredo Di Stéfano
taught us something new

in five f […]

when the World Cup ends
we lose someone unafraid
to hit home his point

“passion depth and skill..
pace and movement from the back” …
Hansen will be missed

love or loathe his voice
he taught us to analyse
how […]

joy and pain so clear
etched with paint upon each face
when they win or lose

yes we’re bored with waves
as they jump and scream each time
they’re up on the screen

in despair and then…
suddenly all garish g […]

Glasto then London
heading home now finally
trying to stay tuned

late on Sunday night
in this quiet carriage seat
signal comes and goes

eyes glued to the page
click refresh as updates change
still the match […]

am I so alone
in not wanting this great feast
of football to end?

can we all agree
we have seen some players here
with such class and skill?

sometimes when we watch
the romantic in us all
wishes we were […]

back from Glastonb’ry
it’s a festival tonight
as Brazil creep through

two quite diff’rent worlds
drenched in sun or rain
people dance the same

different crowds and views
human beings celebrate
music and […]

I don’t just want to
go one better than our kev
it just took nine goes

are you telling me
he was only whispering
“can we swap our shirts?”

headline heaven’s here
the third cut is the deepest
might prove true […]

passion hangs like clouds
on the street and in the ground
expectation soars

in this special place
where big smiles hide such hard lives
football lives and breathes

ev’ry time they play
fans by screens and s […]

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so so different then…

we wore flares and had a team

flair is now long gone

why not believe

why not believe

it keeps us in the loop

come ditch your grief

and handkerchief

we’re still there in the group

when England take on Uruguay
no time to hold our breath
no place to wonder how or why
this isn’t life or death
we’ve come this far together
the moment’s drawing nye
let’s be inspired alive and fired
by Rik May […]

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best fans in the World?

Japanese clean up the ground

FIFA just clean up

Oh Joe Hart …Joe Hart
where do we begin to start
I start to loathe and dread half-times
to see what you’ve endorsed this time
your ads are never far apart
you should be in Exchange & Mart
at cringey-acting […]

we are the ones who kicked it off
and always stake the claim
for taking it around the world
and starting this great game ~
they say it was a railwayman
who introduced football
who carried with him to Brazil
his […]

when England take on Italy
what’s there to worry you or me?
there are no dreaded warning signs
they’ve only won the Cup four times
they are an unknown mystery
and have so little history
so little stuff that they […]

endless years of desparation
time to lower expectation
maybe a dog is what we need
to teach us how to hold a lead
we better not play prettily
when England take on Italy

perhaps the reason that we fail
is just […]

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on Algeria haiku

sly and set to pounce
Desert Foxes in the sand
North Africa prays

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on Argentina haiku

will it be this time ?
Messi leads the white and blue
big contenders these

~ […]

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fifteen thousand strong
who’d have thought so long ago
we would run and run

born in two thousand
football poems from you all
still pour in each day

fourteen years go by
every day t […]