Football Poets

with love

with love – we will still pull through
with love – if this is all we do
with love – when it’s beyond control
with love – from in your heart and soul
with love – when they don’t understand
with love – we […]

tis summer when at last the sun
does lend a moment ot these shores
and lo what’s this-which like some snail
doth lies here by this cottage door
alonre discarded -season done.
all red and black and plastic too
o […]

football was my first love and it will be my last
i would have loved to play for England but i was too crap to ask
it started in the playground and ended up in tears
now i watch it down the pub – with the lads […]

i thought about it afterwards and drew a deep breath
how football’s not a matter of life and death –
but who was it said – it’s more important than that
and saturdays at three o’clock are empty and flat
without […]

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 WE WILL NE’ER SEE AGAIN –
AND HE WASN’T- OUT THERE- IN THE MIDDL […]

it’s not about the magic of pulling on the shirt
it’s not about the fear of maybe geting hurt
it’s not about the glory its not about the dream
it’s not about the loyalty it isnt for the team
it’s not about the […]

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so we’ve got a hillbilly refereeing for America

petrol crises,floods, foot and mouth,bse,

gms and monsanto

whales dying from naval sounds

man u bloody nited

Taleban on the loose

a forty-story oil rig f […]

oh darling we must meet up soon
so much to express
so good to see you at the match
regards to Daphne – bless…
thank god they’ve tarted up this place
got rid of all that rabble
the boli’s slightly ove […]

I remember that summer of 58
August in London and sweltering

stand clear of the doors…
all change for Fulham Broadway…
official programme – sixpence a go!
wear your colours!
roasted peanuts – tanner a […]

sad and strange echoes ring
pictures rise and fall
painful teachers drawn-out days
i can still recall

churning stomach walking in
homework never done
outside workmen joke and laugh
in snow and rain and sun

far […]

this love this love – this dream we share
this song i sing – this shirt i wear
this game we play – these plans we make
this field we plough – this chance we take
this aching heart – these words i shout
this […]

what is this game if so upright
we have no chance to think and write

no chance to comment cry or plea
at something held so seriously

no time to turn at Zola’s glance
and watch his feet how they can dance

no […]

it was long before satellite dishes when tvs were’nt even around

and videos were’nt yet invented and only film hire shops in town

and I was this far off supporter with two little kids and a wife

i was so far […]

late in the game when the fog swirls in
and you long for a rub of the dice
you pray that some figure will dance through the mud
and cause havoc out under the lights
for legends and myths are like rivers
but […]

…The Price is Shite

please mister football club – how much will it be

just to be a mascot – and run out with the team

piss off son we’re business men – what do you think this is

this ain’t no people’s game […]

I wondered lonely in the crowd
How could I ever be so proud
To think that I on such a day
Could into opposition stray

And did i take some fatal bend
To find myself in the wrong end
the turnstile clicked […]

you’re the keeper of the fire and you ain’t afraid
when the game explodes like a hand grenade
cos you can take control – like a customs man
breed fear in men with a wave of your hand
you like to stamp authority – […]

so what’s so wrong about wanting yeah
to marry a big soccer star
and what’s so wrong about shit- loads of money
and shit- loads of clothes and a car
cause you know what you get when you’re sorted
with you nice […]

Now footy is a funny game – footy is a laugh

But footy is a money game that’s going flipping daft

The system i can understand – i’ve realised the goal

But why the greed and why the need to bleed us h […]

(best sung or shouted!)

flying by – but we will try
to keep the people’s game alive
from ev’ry park to merseyside
the people’s game must never die

by and by – they’ll question why
the fees and wages climbed […]