Football Poets

GLASTIDERATA

go quietly like Wolves fans amid the noise and remember what peace and chilled-ness there will be when you get back to your tent…………..
……if it’s still there

do not steal a traffic cone […]

am i alone in all this fun

is it just me or everyone

from minute one to ninety-one

when after three great games are done

I ask aloud but answers none

nice shades Posh …

but is Beckham playing?

ok it’s only a game
but doesn’t football love hurt?
and even if you’ve never been in love
or felt pride
or understood the sweeper system
or maybe just hate the game
who among us is not shaken..
and here in Bath […]

another golden Euro football summer
these next weeks could make or break our love
the sun may be up in the sky a-shining
but I will be where Sky is in the pub

i’ve rearranged my life around the matches
i’ve had […]

as flowers reach for sun
and waves for the shore
so we strive
again – again
while flags fly from bars and cars
and children dream
a nation waits silent now
all longing for the day

familiar now – this patriotic […]

remember when we used to say
survival of the fittest
these days wealth is the new fitness it seems
but what is wealth
skill talent money or humour?
sometimes – in order to survive
we look to wealth –
that which […]

never thought love could feel this way
never thought i’d hear it or ever see the day
sometimes the words aren’t deep enough to say
it’s just football love actually

all of that stuff you just love to put me […]

everybody’s talkin’ bout the South-South divide
everybody’s waitin’ for the turnin’ of the tide
everybody’s known for years – way down deep inside
for Manchester and Liverpool it’s time to step aside

from Elland […]

in Africa…wise men say – it is un-wise
to choose between the might of Africa’s footballing countries…
in Zimbabwe and Rwanda for instance
each with their own vivid distractions of the day
it is still easy to […]

So are you going to Scarborough yeah?
Wouldn’t you rather be massaging your hair?
Pampering your egos showing off your cars
Papparazzi heaven and celebrity bars..
Wouldn’t you rather be ‘lording it’ up West
Out on […]

tinkerman tinkerman cook me a team
pick with your eyes closed
and give me a dream
pat it with mutu or crespo or duff
veron it with joe cole and all of that stuff

keep on rotating it’s good for the side
we tinker […]

what is it about the third round of the cup?

more magic than the Secret Garden
when you find yourself in it
on that great day

and more than the respite
from lower region relegation struggles
or where you are […]

And as it grew closer to Christmas in Chelsea
and all across the land
the crowds did gather
before the not quite Master of the English Language…
and there they did stand in Armani and Versace
rubbing their lap […]

NOW THEY CALLED HIM -THE SHELLEY- OF FOOTBALL
HE’S THE POET WHO RE-WROTE THE GAME
WITH THE HEART OF A CHILD – HE HAD WIT HE HAD STYLE
AND HIS LIKE WILL WE E’RE SEE AGAIN?-
AND HE WASN’T- OUT THERE- ON A SAL […]

well it’s starting to get pretty late now
it’s getting real late in the year
we might as well wait til next season my friend
when the heart becomes hopeful and clear
and lately i’m thinking how fickle it it is
an […]

and so dear friends my all-time team and line-up I unfold
upon the field and paper the greatest ever told
whose keeper sat and sometimes stood more steadfast than a mast
between the posts young BUDDHA smiled as […]

now they say if you recall the sixties
you probably weren’t even there
but i can still see it as clear as the day
all those flowers and dreams in your hair –
from the first of the CND marches
to football games m […]

what now
with ‘becks’ to spain
and zola too –
from chelsea’s hallowed turf
long gone

who now
to steer banana blasts
past walls of steel
as if they were not there

who now to jink and weave past lunging feet
like […]

what now

with becks and zola gone

who now to light the days ?

no curving dead ball wonder strikes

no jinking runs and sweet delights

of style and touch and grace

so how did you end up this season
how was the season for you
all of those hopes and euphoria
what were the things that came through?

did you go higher and higher?
or was it a case of exist
all of those moments […]