Football Poets

brand new season same old same old
blank green canvas big clean slate
new beginnings same old endings
grab the handrail take the bait

brand new season same old same old
keep on longing live the dream
keep on […]

He’s not wild about Wenger
Arsene says he feels the same way
Fergie and Benitez did their shopping
José went to chill in LA
And now he’s mellow José

He’s not mad about nothing
Getting mad’s a thing of the p […]

thirty three years come rain or snow
rushing to the car for the five o’clock show
maybe you’ve a transistor radio
but only one man gonna put you in the know
James Alexander Gordon

sometimes you find yourself […]

so what’s so wrong with a palace
to marry some big soccer star
and what’s so wrong about shed loads of players
who pitch up in flash blacked-out cars?
’cause you know what you get when you’re minted
with your nice […]

one, two, three, four ….
ev’rybody’s talking about
pages and pages
of pressure on kids
to make the big stages
megabucks and wages
the young and teen-ages
what about real skills
alleyways to muddy hills ?
All […]

that was the season that was
but how did it happen so fast
how did it fly in the wink of any eye
buried and gone with the past

history leaves us statistics
none of them tell the true tale
where did we soar like […]

a final thought for all my friends
before this summer break
and one last look within the book
before we wipe the slate
at all of those predictions made
for your beloved teams
at all your hopes that swirled like […]

flip flops and wind chimes
and old blokes with pig-tails
Ikea flat packs
Bank Holiday sales
they drive me mad
but I’ll take what life brings
for these are not top
of my least favourite things

leaders that take […]

like some terrier
in ’66
it was the Germans
left chasing your shadow
in that July Wembley sun
and on the top of the World
you danced
triumphant
defining moments in time
for Bally

grainy black and white […]

in the last weeks of the season
as if on cue for some
the sudden sun glares menacingly down
like frowning bosses or old school headmasters
upon our long drained toils
exposing our failings
like light into a […]

A man however hard he tries
Cannot defy nor dare disguise
The changes here before his eyes
Within our sacred game
The cynic deep within us all
Who since his first touch of the ball
Has watched the seasons rise and […]

round here
we have hugged trees in parks
to save them from being cut down

round here
it’s possible just possible
to take off our outward masks
of rivalry and hate
and appreciate each other’s mastery
round […]

In The Last Minute
you stare at defeat
you cling on and hang
on the edge of your seat

In The Last Minute
your fingers are crossed
your temple is pounding
the battle seems lost

In The Last Minute
you beg and you […]

dark day throwbacks
scattering fans
who are the guilty
with blood on their hands?
sad sad pictures
that never belong
rioting scenes
we thought were gone
come back to haunt us
again and again
battles on […]

now passion and pride ain’t everything
perhaps it was one of those nights
the score isn’t really important
we won in the end…yeah right!

commitment and longing are a.w.o.l
attack-wise we don’t look that […]

they ask me for my Evian
they take away the top
they search me like a criminal
oh where’s it going to stop?

they take away the right to stand
they make us sit in rows
and if we stand they make us sit
it’s easier […]

it was late last night
I was down the pub
because I don’t have Sky-io
and I knew in my heart
from the very very start
it’s the same old raggle taggle England-o

there was John Terry
there was Wayne […]

oh England I must have blind
still keep hoping after all of this time
living on memories days long gone
never ever sussing out what went wrong

oh England what can we do
bring back Sven and Ramsey too
bring back […]

you talk of wages being capped
of grounds and salads being sapped
of our last healthy luxury
and our beloved celery
we never thought we’d see the day
we’d throw our greenest friends away
away away and here at […]

I am the one in ten
I wonder am I missed
I am the one in ten
And soon i won’t exist
Nobody wants me
Prices are unfair
I am just a child
But no-one seems to care

I am the one in ten
In case you didn’t know
And […]