Football Poets

Things we blokes didn’t know about women..and football

Football is the number one
female participation sport in England.*

The Active People survey in 2006
highlighted that 250,000 women
and 1.1 million girls […]

who would have thought it
here in some steaming bar on an island
just like you now in Sardinia
but up there on the screen
over cold drinks and and suntanned Brits
Zola’s greatest goals
flying in from all angles – […]

now if we don’t beat thingummyjig
we might as well give up
we never go the distance
in any flipping cup

this quarter final hoodoo
that hangs above us all
so high above our pleasant land
all players great and […]

keeping it simple

like some injury hit squad

playing with few words

just like a goalie

catching and saving something

here upon three lines

nineteen syllables

like first or last minute goals

love them or loathe them

picture the scene
when your life is so young
when you’re out on the street
when you’re having some fun
when playing connects you
and takes you away
from all of the stuff
that bombards you each day
when no-one […]

brand new season same old same old
blank green canvas big clean slate
new beginnings same old endings
grab the handrail take the bait

brand new season same old same old
keep on longing live the dream
keep on […]

He’s not wild about Wenger
Arsene says he feels the same way
Fergie and Benitez did their shopping
José went to chill in LA
And now he’s mellow José

He’s not mad about nothing
Getting mad’s a thing of the p […]

thirty three years come rain or snow
rushing to the car for the five o’clock show
maybe you’ve a transistor radio
but only one man gonna put you in the know
James Alexander Gordon

sometimes you find yourself […]

so what’s so wrong with a palace
to marry some big soccer star
and what’s so wrong about shed loads of players
who pitch up in flash blacked-out cars?
’cause you know what you get when you’re minted
with your nice […]

one, two, three, four ….
ev’rybody’s talking about
pages and pages
of pressure on kids
to make the big stages
megabucks and wages
the young and teen-ages
what about real skills
alleyways to muddy hills ?
All […]

that was the season that was
but how did it happen so fast
how did it fly in the wink of any eye
buried and gone with the past

history leaves us statistics
none of them tell the true tale
where did we soar like […]

a final thought for all my friends
before this summer break
and one last look within the book
before we wipe the slate
at all of those predictions made
for your beloved teams
at all your hopes that swirled like […]

flip flops and wind chimes
and old blokes with pig-tails
Ikea flat packs
Bank Holiday sales
they drive me mad
but I’ll take what life brings
for these are not top
of my least favourite things

leaders that take […]

like some terrier
in ’66
it was the Germans
left chasing your shadow
in that July Wembley sun
and on the top of the World
you danced
triumphant
defining moments in time
for Bally

grainy black and white […]

in the last weeks of the season
as if on cue for some
the sudden sun glares menacingly down
like frowning bosses or old school headmasters
upon our long drained toils
exposing our failings
like light into a […]

A man however hard he tries
Cannot defy nor dare disguise
The changes here before his eyes
Within our sacred game
The cynic deep within us all
Who since his first touch of the ball
Has watched the seasons rise and […]

round here
we have hugged trees in parks
to save them from being cut down

round here
it’s possible just possible
to take off our outward masks
of rivalry and hate
and appreciate each other’s mastery
round […]

In The Last Minute
you stare at defeat
you cling on and hang
on the edge of your seat

In The Last Minute
your fingers are crossed
your temple is pounding
the battle seems lost

In The Last Minute
you beg and you […]