Football Poets

(Where Have All The Players Gone?)

now they say if you recall the sixties
you probably weren’t even there
but i can still see it as clear as the day
all those flowers and dreams in your hair –
from the first of t […]

to see the world cup

in a grain of rice

and football heaven in a scarf

hold a dream in Japan

or your Korea

will be brief

and just for a laugh

were you chancer or dancer
or real hope enhancer
for those who lose touch with the game
was it wistful or magic
or even pelagic*
ive watched it again and agian

was it planned or impromptu
the place it had gone […]

good peopley..far and wide…
in the roundy ball write and rhymey world..
and series in the thoughts now..
for better time… never was than now.
to menshy-menshy the name Sir Stanley.?
and not Matthews in the […]

Well he’s not the world’s most handsomest guy
and he ain’t that tall when the corners come by
but he’s still got a power like the sun in the sky
it’s like solar
gian-franco zola

and everything he does goes by so […]

was it a trick
or was it a flick
like waving reminders
or shaking a stick
but on colds night like these
in some pub full of fleas
it certainly gave me a kick

there once were some poets from Stroud
who did great stuff but not very loud
it may sound quite absurd
for the punters preferred
that like children or Steps
they were seen but not heard
but my god how they did […]

so what’s so wrong about wanting yeah
to marry a big soccer star
and what’s so wrong about shed-loads of money
and shed- loads of clothes and a car
cause you know what you get when you’re sorted
with you nice […]

And as it grew closer to Crisp-less..
the crowds did gather before the Master of the Verse …
in a place just offeth the M5eth where artists, poets
and quite weird soccer writers do liveth in abundenth…

and […]

…i’ve re-submitted the poem to
hopefully inspire a few more replies and memories of Wembley ..images..do we
need a national stadium etc; .anything ..and why not…
as we have had some great poems in…on it… […]

in defence of Desailly,Le Saux and Petit etc; staying home )

what kind of game – is this we play
when players have to stand and say –
this world and life mean so much more
than football in an air of war
or in a […]

where now the dream is long over and gone
and your tunnel stands empty while echoes ring on?
when you ask me a place where-in legends were made
i willl show you where none but the greatest have played
from the […]

today
i forgot
that autumn
was arriving
and then
under a tree
at waitrose
it suddenly hit me

a conker
on my head

with love

with love – we will still pull through
with love – if this is all we do
with love – when it’s beyond control
with love – from in your heart and soul
with love – when they don’t understand
with love – we […]

tis summer when at last the sun
does lend a moment ot these shores
and lo what’s this-which like some snail
doth lies here by this cottage door
alonre discarded -season done.
all red and black and plastic too
o […]

football was my first love and it will be my last
i would have loved to play for England but i was too crap to ask
it started in the playground and ended up in tears
now i watch it down the pub – with the lads […]

i thought about it afterwards and drew a deep breath
how football’s not a matter of life and death –
but who was it said – it’s more important than that
and saturdays at three o’clock are empty and flat
without […]

NOW THEY CALLED HIM -THE SHELLEY- OF FOOTBALL
HE’S THE POET WHO RE-WROTE THE GAME
WITH THE HEART OF A CHILD – HE HAD WIT HE HAD STYLE
AND HIS LIKE WE WILL NE’ER SEE AGAIN –
AND HE WASN’T- OUT THERE- IN THE MIDDL […]

it’s not about the magic of pulling on the shirt
it’s not about the fear of maybe geting hurt
it’s not about the glory its not about the dream
it’s not about the loyalty it isnt for the team
it’s not about the […]

ok

so we’ve got a hillbilly refereeing for America

petrol crises,floods, foot and mouth,bse,

gms and monsanto

whales dying from naval sounds

man u bloody nited

Taleban on the loose

a forty-story oil rig f […]