Football Poets

One man and his dog
Without the hound
But about 25 people
Scattered around
A railed off pitch
And not much else
Just one small stand
To the side of the dugouts.
More players than fans
Welcome to the Kent Invicta […]

I really should know better
Jumping up and down
With teenagers
Like a lunatic
I can’t vault
The perimeter fence like them
So I head to the corner to lead
The old guard charge
Through the gate.
Tears of joy
Hugs […]

Good things come to those who wait
Either by chance or by fate
There it was this morning in black and white
Front of the ‘Non League Paper’,to my delight!
Gavin & boys with trophy high
Enough to make grown men […]

Is the day
That makes it all worthwhile.
For all those years
Of blind loyalty
And foolishness
Traipsing all over
The south of England
In love with something
That rarely reciprocates.
You can follow your […]

All I can think about
Is an old 1970’s sitcom
I don’t know the collective term
But it is a million of them
Doing somersaults in my stomach.
A quick goal or two
After three o’clock
Will calm my nerves
At the […]

I shouldn’t really be aboard
Self discipline of the highest accord
I even bought drink for the raffle
With no urge to have a snaffle!
In the past I’d have been
As drunk as a skunk
Not caring what anyone […]

Waiting to go home
After a Cup Final
London Old Boys Challenge Cup
Which understandably
May have been below
Your footballing radar.
At the bus stop
Waiting for my 176
When a P13 pulls up
It shouldn’t
At a request […]

Does anyone remember
Nick Berry
‘Eastender’ off the telly
Maybe before you were born?
Later PC Rowan of Aidensfield.
Other claim to fame
Pop Star!
“Every Loser Wins
Once The Dream Begins”
How prophetic
If I dare […]

Almost a season
With my feet under the boardroom table
Haven’t done most of what I’ve been able
Ideas I’ve had thick and fast
The simple bit is running them past
Old duffers sat at the table
Not even […]

One of the great old grounds
Evoking memories
From before my time
Of cloth caps, Woodbines
And little boys held aloft
To sit and stand pitchside
At the very front
Almost on the touchline itself
Of a football […]

“Perfect Night Out”
Pouring down with rain
Soaked to the skin
In a crowd of twenty nine
All turned out fine
Even though
I really should be
Questioning my sanity
And shouting the odd profanity.
But…a win is a win is a win!

Concord Rangers…Rovers
Whoever you are
I hope you have a huge party
Back in your bar
When you get out of your half full car.
Even a ride around
Your island of Canvey
In an open top bus
Although holding up the […]

Over half the crowd
Makes you so proud
Untold singing
With our bringing
Two hundred or more
Despite the score.
As an added bonus
We upset the League
By making the night
Magnificently nervy
For dinosaur duffer […]