Football Poets

where you watching – did you know
or discover where to go ?
did you witness our girls try…
with Wimbledon a dream gone by?
Hope Powell Yankee Scott
Names you may not hear a lot
Nor see splashed across back […]

why do we bother?
sixty six will be our last
end corruption now

driven on by greed
Failing In Football Always
envelopes don’t lie

Where after Qatar?
Russia China then the Moon
anywhere that pays

merchandise […]

it gets harder and harder each moment
the weight on your shoulders each game
and the taunts that persist with each error and miss
only add to the insults and blame
when it just doesn’t happen the way that it […]

I was thinking about all the moments
when you’re walking away from a game
’cause however you played as the memories fade
the feelings are never the same
as you re-trace the steps of your childhood
where […]

I do not wish to to be a prude
nor come across as pseud or rude
but I am happy to intrude
upon the subject of the Snood

the marketers however shrewd
cannot preclude nor yet allude
to whether this device is […]

“Football Club Bans Sausages
and Burgers!” at home games
the headline’s quite alarming
our current health’s to blame

They’ve banned those long-time favourites
and now they stand alone
no red meat for the […]

I’m glad I’m not the only one
who struggles to begin it
I’m very Premier League and leave
it all to the last minute

I’m adding up expenses
that wouldn’t pay their meals
but when it comes to late-night stress
I […]

my first Final our first telly
’58 and a black and white set
Munich sorrow awash that day
with sadness in our heads
that was the year I cried for another team
and swapped my blue and white rattle
for a red and […]

met him on a train down in London town*
we’d both been to the very same ground
always comes out with the best quotes around
does our Ian

sat behind him once down at Plymouth Argyle*
he was a Pilgrim icon for a […]

one Christmas in the trenches
they stood in mud and sand
their loved ones and their football
a distant far off land –
the snow lay thick as thick could be
a bitter chill did spread
behind the sand bags and the […]

Another Christmas in Afghanistan
Another Christmas in Iraq
Another Christmas wondering
will your son come back?
will your daughter make it home
will you catch her smile
they’ve been there in sand and war
fighting […]

listen up dream on
don’t hold your breath
Simon Cowell’s thumbs up
could be kiss of death
look beyond the spectacles
and rose tinted view
We’ll be shunned and I’ll be stunned
if England’s bid comes through […]

shoe boxes shoved away underneath your bed
stuff you couldn’t part with stuff inside your head
rosettes ciggie cards and old away kits
ticket stubs and football boots falling half to bits
chucked into the cupboard […]

….(We hear The Sound of The Failed Bid Drum)

what is it with our papparazzi*
is there nothing that they’ll not stoop to?
if it’s truth or it’s lies they will surely deny us
the World Cup for me and for […]

ironic and sad
that here in the wake of Kick It Out Week
you know that time
when we get to see our managers interviewed
for a day with their little Kick It Out badges on
that we still now have with Paul Ince’s […]

they have no pitch to call their own
united here they stand
for something lost so long ago
by eve’ry honest fan
Old Trafford and Plough Lane once home
but nothing keeps them down
they play a few miles down the […]

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there was a young* octopus named Paul

he was psychic but that wasn’t all

he became so predictable

flicking his tentacle

now he’s an (ex-) legend in German football

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Our players
who art in silly-money heaven
Narrow be their game
thy payback will one day come
when they’re all paid as one
at small clubs as it is at big clubs
give us a break from greedy agents
and manipulative […]

to anyone present still ‘old school’
his name brought a smile to us all
call him ‘wide boy’ ‘romancer’ or ‘one of the lads’
he brought something we miss to football

and the flags at Man City they fly at half […]

S enseless scrappy scoreless sameness
A bject awful average aimless
M aladjusted meek marooned
E very effort ends en-tombed

O ver-blown overacting
L imp lethargic listless lacking
D ire displays draw desperate […]