Football Poets

I was watching a blind man play football
and it re-shaped my world into two
and with ev’ry touch well it showed me so much
and it changed everything that I knew
in my life

I must have been dreaming to miss it
I m […]

Leonardo Da Vinci

Medici Verdi Roma

your boys done the biz !

and so it’s done all over now and gone
all ended thus in seas of white and blue
as Rome ignites and Paris growls
to shed long tears on moments lost
whilst Italy can dance and sing
as car horns blare long […]

a power cut here

not saved by the radio

only a wind up

have you ever got back to the car park
having over-extended your stay
like an unwelcome alien visiting Earth
to discover it isn’t your day

and there on your windscreen as bright as the sun
a little square […]

this is
my foot
in eighty degrees
just before the
the Paraguay game
trying to get
a touch – in between
the poems & fifteen
of Bishop’s Castle’s
bravest students..
all that way for this
on all those trains – […]

money yesterday the game was all we knew
money you smiled on me and said “it could be you”
now I feel really cool
cause I just bought Liverpool
just to have a place to keep all my money

money thank you for the […]

what’s all the fuss about
the World Cup today
32 countries
just coming out to play

big cars and superstars
paparazzi heaven
salaries from Hollywood
for Sven’s best eleven

Fussball or Soccer
by any other […]

so how do you feel now the season has gone
and the summer is finally here
when you’ve waited so long it went on and on
for those four years to pass like the sky –
when it’s time to forget the struggle and fig […]

thank God thank God it’s almost here
i can’t contan myself I fear
as every second brings it near
the gols the girls the fans the beer

for as I gaze relentless rain
is beating on my window pane
o how we long to […]

in streets forever England
on fields forever green
as ev’ry fourth years comes around
a wondrous sight is seen –
this magic time this dance divine
deny it if you can
this heart-felt dream that’s always been
in […]

Come on England come on England

Get it right this time

Always knew it you can do it

Get it in your mind

Come on Gerrard come on Beckham

Everybody’s here

Come on Coley come on Lampsy

Nothing left to f […]

I cannot sleep I cannot think
I cannot eat I cannot drink
I have no strength to pump my bike
and people ask me what I’m like
I cannot find a soul to blame
awake they cry it’s just a game
I watch the seconds […]

the most beautiful thing
about the Beautiful Game
is that you don’t have to be beautiful to play it
ok we are all beautiful – I know
but in this looks-obsessed world of ours
anyone can play

hard then when […]

apart from your love

what else puts my life on hold?

only the World Cup

I’d love to do a worksop in Workshop
or should that be the other way around?
I’d love to do a lot of ’em in Nottingham
I’ve even been to visit County’s ground –

but I’ve never run a worksop in Workshop
it’s like […]

It’s not just the stuff that we eat that defiles us
It’s not just the lack of attention that riles us
but sometimes no matter how much it beguiles us
this football can’t speak for itself

and so we’ve amassed in […]

let nothing come between us now
wherever we may stand
on grass or stone or garden home
in near or far off land –
let time and nature take their toll
whatever we may use
like helpless fools ignoring rules
we light […]

you can’t go back but you still gotta try
cars parked everywhere rushin’ on by
when we were little you could kickabout or lie
in the street

can’t quite believe it after all this time
same chalk markings on that […]

to be part of this team

we call England

and to regain the Cup

we once had

bring a dream in your heart

a calypso and drum

as we take on

the brave Trinidad