Football Poets

meet me on down at the football café
grab yourself a table any time of the day
young fans and poets the old and the grey
chatting with a coffee in the football café

down at the place where the time stands s […]

there are plenty of new bikes and trainers
and things that light up in the dark
but on Christmas Day at about 8am
I’m the only kid here in the park

yes I’m all on my own in my best footie boots
and an old pair of […]

One Christmas at war
what moved them – enemies all?
only a football

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 […]

so sad so sad about Man U
oh what oh what will Glazer do?
will Fergie lead them to the top
or have they merely lost the plot

from Europe now they bid farewell
and their return we cannot tell
the crown the crown […]

It doesn’t matter who you love
or which team you will die for
to rid the game of racism
is something we all try for

exept it seems in Italy
where slack response brings sorrow
but if you must be so inclined
you […]

though life the real gift
you came with your own magic
why then such weeping ?

memories on film
your face long hair and sweet skill
all gone now like snow

the world at your feet

what memories you leave us

Belfast’s favourite son

how apt the snow outside today like some cup-tie of old
as the news comes over
too late to ask why too numb to cry
what was it Parkie said?
“you never knew how good you were
or how good you could have […]

whatd’ya fancy doing what’ya got in mind
I’ll tell you what the plan is everything’s fine
you know where I’m going you know what I like
you know what I’m into morning noon and night
football
in this country […]

Whenever shoot-outs loom like night
You need to pick your sweetest
You’re better off with front-men first
You never choose the keepers

But still in spite of pedigree
Or what you’ve done before
Unlikely as it […]

seen some changes down the years
had some laughs and shed some tears
loyal steadfast without fail
you and that old pony tail

dodgy crosses England games
you alongside all the names
when they tot up all the […]

Money – yesterday the club was sad and blue
Money – you smiled on us and said “it could be you!”
Now we feel ten feet tall
And we just bought the Albert Hall
Just to have a place to keep all our
Money

Money – […]

everybody’s talking ’bout Chelsea
everybody has to have their say
everybody’s desperate to beat them
let’s forget the talking let’s just play

Keegan was a great one for emotion
“a swallow doesn’t make a summer’s […]

isn’t it strange how emotions can change
like a blink in the wink of an eye
when just for a moment your world it stands still
no matter how hard you may try

I was back in a place in a whole other space
and […]

it comes from where no man can say
yet while you live it will not stray
but haunt your being night and day
football our obsession

in any land at any time
in sand or stadium divine
its magnet force will not […]

there has to be a space – we still need a place
for every single member of the whole human race
and don’t let them fool you the problem’s gone away
underneath the suface it’s lingering today
at all-seater stadiums […]

get me out of here
I must away
this office this desk
some prison today

how lucky am I
no locks and no keys
the gift to be free
and to do as I please

no lights going out
save the moon in my sky
we never say […]

it’s always there
wating for us all
that reality of life
the one we never want to discuss
at ground in bars
but as in being and breathing
so too in football

where sad but true
it matters little who you are
or […]