Football Poets

who’d be a goalie?
that’s what he said
lying there frozen
the man could be dead
heated responses
in the bar at The Shed
who’d be a goalie ?
that’s what he said

I recall Lofthouse
at Wembey one year
when barges […]

side by side on balls

black and white shapes together

so friend why not us?

we’ve come so far now that’s what they say
done so much now to drive it all away
but through my letter box a leaflet on the mat
it made me wanna make myself a smoothie with my hat

I read this article I couldn’t […]

Ashley Cole Thierry Henri
finally got the best of me
all my struggles all my my pain
all that money down the drain
they earn more in just one day
than I can get in a whole year’s pay
there’s no connection left […]

forever they search

football poets and players

for that perfect pitch

every year every week
thousands of people across this land
go to football to sit or stand
in grounds and parks in pubs and bars
to watch this game

sometimes I see you
flipping the pages of your programme
past […]

They’re Changing Sides At Arsenal and Chelsea
Maybe at last the future is healthy
A footballer’s life is terribly fraught
You can go for a meeting but mustn’t get caught
says Ashley

The midnight oil’s been […]

what is it ? taking us shaking us
pulling tugging here in our hearts
and though no one can say
one thing’s for sure
it’s up there this feeling

up there with you and me at six
sleepless on Christmas Eve […]

Shall I compare thee to a summer buy ?
Thou art more gifted and more rare.
Tough games do come so fast and seasons fly,
And summer’s break so short doth seem each year.

Sometimes so bright that long sought t […]

I could not sleep I could not think
I could not eat I could not drink
the sheer suspense was hard to bear
until the morning you were there
I’d check the radio and clocks
I’d sit beside my letterbox
and when I w […]

you can search for a lifetime to find it
a paradise untouched by time
you can dig out your big book of poems
but never do justice in rhyme
to the sparkles of sun on the ocean
or the waves lapping onto the […]

you can usually tell by the jewellery
with their shoes and their clothes and their bags
they stand out in a crowd and are often quite loud
when the action occasionally drags

you can spot them a mile off in […]

‘so this is it’ ‘ there’s danger here’ ‘the scene is surely set’
‘and this could be a tricky one’ ‘the biggest moment yet’
when Motty gives up commentating ‘who can they bring in’
for when you need a cliché fa […]

I was watching a blind man play football
and it re-shaped my world into two
and with ev’ry touch well it showed me so much
and it changed everything that I knew
in my life

I must have been dreaming to miss it
I m […]

Leonardo Da Vinci

Medici Verdi Roma

your boys done the biz !

and so it’s done all over now and gone
all ended thus in seas of white and blue
as Rome ignites and Paris growls
to shed long tears on moments lost
whilst Italy can dance and sing
as car horns blare long […]

a power cut here

not saved by the radio

only a wind up

have you ever got back to the car park
having over-extended your stay
like an unwelcome alien visiting Earth
to discover it isn’t your day

and there on your windscreen as bright as the sun
a little square […]

this is
my foot
in eighty degrees
just before the
the Paraguay game
trying to get
a touch – in between
the poems & fifteen
of Bishop’s Castle’s
bravest students..
all that way for this
on all those trains – […]

money yesterday the game was all we knew
money you smiled on me and said “it could be you”
now I feel really cool
cause I just bought Liverpool
just to have a place to keep all my money

money thank you for the […]