Football Poets

flying high upon the hill
where sheep will graze and time stands still
we pinch ourselves and have to stop
pretending we’re not at the top

the silence broken with a roar
the joy from fans each time we score
we h […]

there are Llamas in a field beside the entrance
and they’re posing for the passing crowd who stare
there’s a big red bus that’s serving drinks and nibbles
and a festival-like feeling in the air

you can say that […]

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still a name that springs

as he did back in the day

Big Ron had it all

warn your partner
warn your friends
August football’s
back again

premier league
to grass roots
gold designer
or old boots

fans are streaming
from the station
touts clean up
across the nation

Stamford Bridge
to […]

“the whole stand is on fire” he cried upon my radio
but how it started to this day we still may never know
and who here can imagine the fear the heat the pain
but pray that such a day as this will never dawn […]

you in those long shorts
on scrapbook pages and walls
always my hero

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to ape your swivel
on concrete fields by street light
how I tried and tried

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blurred in blue and white
you dancing past def […]

I always wanted to be Jimmy Greaves
it wasn’t the pace the shimmy or the flair
or even those baggy shorts to die for
it was the goals
and in my scrapbook with flour for glue
all those first cuttings were of ‘ […]

my mate Rob don’t like to talk about it
not because he’s wiped it from his mind
when he woke he remembered nothing
of that dark and awful tragic time

my mate Rob don’t like to blame nobody
he’s just glad to be h […]

a hundred miles away from Kev
but we kicked ev’ry ball
it’s the finishing… or lack of it
that gets us most of all
it’s like the run in ten years back
when Jose’s hair was black
but in The Vic on Sunday
we went […]

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tougher than old boots

heartbeat in a mighty side

way back in the day

fortress at the back

giant lynchpin in defence

Scotland Hearts and Spurs

there in golden times

when the Spurs went marchin’ […]

appalled by such behaviour
embarassed by our fans
the hatred shown in Paris
our heads are in our hands
and though they are minority
we know without a doubt
we still have many miles to go
to kick this […]

Look at those numbers that’s the way you do it
You watch your football on Sky TV
Forget the fans that’s the way you do it
In an auction with them and BT
This ain’t workin’ but that’s the way you do it
Money means […]

if you were alive child woman or man
you remember the day still
like yesterday like Lennon like Kennedy
or the day we landed on the moon
the day we woke to realise
we’d lost a football team

that moment when […]

they’re trending now on any pitch
they stroke a furry claim
from Blackbeard to Hillbilly
they litter our great game
they cause Gillette to shudder
the purists find them weird
they’re hairier than mountain […]

fighting all the odds

while Ebola takes it hold

football still inspires

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in another world

miles from the Premier

Africa competes

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from Bata to Malobo

drumming to another […]

Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 1

Barnsley 4 Blackburn Rovers 2

Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 3

Bolton Wanderers 1 Bradford City 9

Derby County 6 Brentford 7

Brighton and Hove Albion 5 Bristol City 5

Bristol Rovers 3 […]

one Christmas in the trenches
they stood in mud and sand
their loved ones and their football
a distant far off land –
the snow lay thick as thick could be
a bitter chill did spread
behind the sand bags and the […]

one Christmas in the supermarket
before the jam packed shelves
there’s children making havoc
with the homeless and the elves

while some go late to scour
the bargain cut-down stuff
there’s millions pouring in the […]

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fairy tales must end

Norton made their fans so proud

they can stand up tall

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adding spice and sauce

to a first round packed with thrills

as Worcester march on

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yelling on his side
on a night they’ll nor forget
cheer up Sean Reid*

slips and slides and rain
just like cup ties in the past
Warrington march on

as we watch at home
clocks that tick away the time
on this magic night