Football Poets

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in our game today

multi-lingual bosses

speak in many tongues

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how did we manage how did we get by
how did we exist the planet you and I
how did we do it how did we survive
what did we do …before 5 live ?*

back-track 20 years remember if you can
games weren’t easy for the […]

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Blatter’s “no prophet”

profit is a more apt term

with Qatar’s World Cup

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are we that surprised

from Brazil to Africa

money buys the prize

splashed into our hearts
loyal legend through and through
Farewell proud Sir Tom

one of football’s greats
etched into our history
still his grace lives on

one club man for life
faithful as the fans he’d […]

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José’s jockeys know

little horses need their milk

in a three horse race

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 […]

say what you like about the F.A Cup
tell me that it’s falling to bits
but try telling that to the mums and dads
who get much cheaper tickets for their kids

chatting to parents in the concourse
hearing all the […]

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only saw you once

leaping like the cat you were

in that great Wolves side

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boots that weighed a ton

studs with nails that cut like knives

before rubber studs

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remembering Eusebio
on some long distant night
those sixties Euro spectacles
when all was black and white

where we would try to recreate
our heroes in the street
the pace the passion and the power
those dancing […]

Is anyone else getting fed up
with those multicultural boots?
they think they’re so cool but we need a new rule
it’s time to get back to our roots

it’s all getting rather anarchic
it’s time the FA took a stand […]

there is a faded image
the one that still remains*
football on Robben Island
those long forgotten games

where prisoners followed ev’ry rule
their league and different teams
became a life-line to a sport
they’d […]

haven’t we been here before
when was it we knew for sure?
expectations used to soar
waiting for England to score

on the screen and in the stand
from the ever-patient fan
to the endless droning band
waiting for […]

the war was barely over with expectation high
the ground was packed to bursting when the Dynamo came by
a deeper motive ruled they say some cold-war ploy or catch
such mystery and secrecy surrounded this great […]

we have no expectations
we’re slipping down the scale
we’ve failed to practise in the past
by practising to fail
and as the ratios decrease
of ‘English’ players here
we still rely on passion
and playing […]

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hearsay or Hartsay ? I really doubt it
who’d be a keeper who’d risk their life
the diving the injuries the trouble and the strife?

point blank saves the jostling in the […]

There is a pub in Swindon Town
they call the Swiss Chalet
it’s been the home of many a fan
on any big match day
and driving fans like me we just
drink J2O or Cola
and don’t expect a greeting from
the great […]

another season dawns again
debate is everywhere
rumours transfers crazy fees
they’re tearing out their hair
at Liverpool and Tottenham
and even at Man U
the big names face some brand new rules
they don’t know […]

thirty nine years come rain or snow
only one man who could put you in the know
rushing from the ground for the five o’clock show
listenin’ on an old transistor radio
James Alexander Gordon

sometimes you found […]

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dated and hated

rarely appreciated

Cole’s one hundred caps

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never ever ‘strapped’

unless in bandage wrapped

forever ‘Cashley’!

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endlessy abused

from the stands on England […]