Football Poets

Alpha-bet this won’t last long
Bring me sonnets or a song
Chants from fans in freezing stands
Dipping crowds acrosss the land
Each next letter makes us scream
Far more harder than we dream
Grasping thinking til […]

Now ‘Arry’s quite a bloke I know
John Lennon was the same
They both sang out with Mind Games
Ev’ry now and then

He reckons Sandra (‘Arry’s wife)*
Could score the ones ‘they’ miss
Can you just see the […]

back in them so called good old days
Jimmy Hill lifted that maximum wage
everybody threatened that the future looked bleak
players went from twenty to a hundred quid a week
Cloughie got Francis for under a […]

at last some space available
for parking at Old Trafford
you’ll be in pleasant company
a few bays from the “gaffer”

you may be dwarfed by Bentleys
and other common cars
but you’ll feel quite solubrious
among […]

though some proclaim the magic’s gone
and some will just bang on and on
about the odds so high and long
still grander dreams are born
upon this frost bound hill so steep
it’s village views for man and sheep […]

come let us rise and stand up tall
the moment now is here
on village lanes we hope as one
no place for doubt or fear
for we’re the new green on the block
up here among these hills
we battle in the Conference
but […]

for those who can recall his work
as Christmas time draws near
this joyous news we bring you all
that Basil is still here

for eight long years upon this site
he’s never aged at all
preserved in time like home […]

there’s a new Green on the block
up here among these hills
we dither in the Conference
but thrive on Cup tie thrills

and most will struggle with the name
to be completely honest
the magic name of Nottingham
so […]

in the words of Van

it’s not easy being Green

just one half would do!

the stands are all creaking and peeling
the pitch it lies crumpled and torn
but like hoarding fanatics
left up in the attics
they are finally being reborn

some players stand legless and headless
the nets are all […]

And so it’s beginning the rumours and plans
Retractable roofing extravagant stands
With hundreds of flats for the wealthier fans
Yes it’s all for the good of the game

There’ll be seventy thousand packed in our […]

you had to be there to believe it
they say that he’d written the script
but some in the stands had their head in the hands
they were downcast and silent tight-lipped

we were three down at half time at […]

born when we were verging on the eve of World War One
at fourteen he was working down the mine
and while so many years have passed since first he ventured South
Sam Bartram’s still a legend in his time –
in knee l […]

we are the dreamers
the stoppers redeemers
the tightrope walkers
and goal-line stalkers
big hand wavers
and six yard stalkers
plucking out crosses
palming off corkers
short distant goalies
great pair of […]

we have not closed our eyes or ears
we have not gone away
this racism we loathe and hate
we hear it still today
we’ve not become invisible
we may not scream or shout
but we’re still here and crying
and trying […]

there’s fury on the airwaves
there’s fury on the field
when all that hate and jealousy
is cowardly revealed

ok we all know Cashley
has made a gaff or two
the money and the lifestyle
but why the need to boo?
our […]

now for those who can find work in football
you may think that it offers some perk
you can love it or fear it and never get near it
but whatever you do it’s still work

you can think about being the team coach […]

the greatest game we never saw
and just our luck to be top drawer
surpassing all that fell before
the greatest game we never saw

beyond the sofas and the homes
reduced to radios and phones
or pubs more used to […]

same ol’ England same ol’ boos
same ol’ nervousness same ol’ news
tabloid scaremongers mega expectation
negative philosophy ruining the nation

fans makin’ stands in the money divide
screamin’ out for passion […]

Big King Kev and Alan C
Who’s the next one gonna be?
We all know what’s going down
On that manager-go-round

Once we longed for millionaires
Now we turn to billionaires
Fergie Wenger Scolari?
Rafa could be number […]