Football Poets

All aboard for the biannual Wurlitzer
This year it’s set to be one hell of an achterbahnfart -think Alton Towers twister
Who will emerge out of the rest ?
When we know full well that we are far from the best […]

Santia goes wild
Messi is Missi again
Argentina cry

Sadiku a puzzle
Albanians progress
Red and Blacks steal third

Espana cruise it
Iniesta runs the show
Turkey kebabed

Firing blanks ,
Balsaboy Sturridge and King Jamie III thrown on ,
Desperate times .
Freshface ( 18 years 6 months ) enters the fray .
” There you go my son , do it for Queen and country …….”
Who do you think […]

Marseille home of soap
Sixty thousand Frenchmen stink
Poyet oh so sweet

No rub of the green
Dancing in Enniskilen
Zlatan ? Over the hill

In or Out ? What next ?
Bouillabaisse avec tear gas
Sterling devalued …….

Another of the great Euro nights,
under the Anfield lights

One – zero ,
no hero .

Up steps Stevie Geeeeeeee !!!
………. but it wasn’t to be .

No fortune or favourable comment ,
that deal with the devil is spent .

Two nil away – job well done .
Mike brought back the spoils of victory,
Roms’ glove (right) .

Soon to be installed in a reliquary in L33.
Biggest attraction to hit Rainhill since Stephensons’ Rocket.

Viewings […]

They mess you up your football teams
They may not mean to , but they do .
They fill you up with hopes and dreams
and add some glory just for you .

Fan hands on misery to fan.
It deepens like a coastal shelf ** […]

Lille away ,
I’ll have a ham baguette ,
just hold the pepper spray.

Down the road from Flanders,
One hundred years on
It’s the Dijon mustard gas that angers .

The cops we’re told are gearin’ up for ’16,
but […]

No pre match rituals ,
No mates gathering in a pub ,
No stop off at the chippy for the usual grub .

Out here ..
Every day is like a Saturday !
‘Cept maybe last Friday ….

At the Minerau or Maracana
Watchin a […]

You can stick your wave under your sombrero

Sit down and act your age
This is no fiesta ,
take a siesta

We’ve come to watch the game
Not grin on the big screen for 10 seconds of fame

England stand for no one […]

It should’ve been the full Monty in Belo-Horizonte,

But it wasn’t to be and we’ll be home for tea.
( what can you expect no wins from 3 )

Next up here a different story,
The hosts play Chile – exit or on to […]

Of course we can stop talking about the football ……..

If we live in a world without inequality ,
where injustice is vanquished .
In an England without food banks ,
a Palestine without a wall ,
a Rio […]

400 years of attitude ..

Points for Nigeria and Ghana ….
Don’t tell me Africa is having a bad World Cup.

They play so well your boys
But not for the countries from which their ancestors were ripped.

They […]