Too long planning the trip to Crewe Not enough time in B and Q. Too busy watching Match of the Day Instead of saying the things I needed to say Sat on trains for too many hours And didn’t come home with chocolates and flowers Too many Saturday night depressions Not enough houseworking good impressions […]

A funny thing happened Near the saloon-bar door As I was minding my own business En-Route to division four A raven-headed beauty Took my hand and lead me silently To the snug bar where she sat us down and passionately kissed me In my ear she whispered Whilst stroking my sunken cheeks “Do you come […]

And I’m still around? On my way to somewhere, I don’t know Someone else’s ground. With someone else’s weather on the window Those jokers in the rain on a snooker club car park. My train, seriously stalled by some barbed wire Makes a Venn diagram of our separate Saturdays. Here come Sunday’s headliners To lift […]

I miss you York away The perfect curves of a Tetley glass Such fine booze On the banks of the Ouse Where I would talk to the statue of Constantine To the amusement of tourists Who don’t know what it means To peer through the gloom of dodgy floodlights With a bacon butty on a […]

On the wet platform The essence of football fans Distilled and drenched.