Football Poets

They got on their bikes
Did Shearer and Chiles
Left St James’s Park
Rode Three Hundred miles.
A tremendous acheivement
And please may I ask
If Mister Shearer could on the way back
Despite aching limbs
And a sore […]

Rubbin’ in dubbin
Tying white coloured laces
Brylcreem on hair
And strong manly faces.
Stuffing fat shin pads
Down thick woollen socks
The crowds make the journey
From coal mines and docks.
Over cobbled rough […]

The game of football and me
Go together like a large gin and T
Like Richards and Jagger
A Cloak and a dagger
Blair and Bush
Dalgliesh and Rush
And like Taylor and Burton
One thing is for certain
My love for the […]

I remember a game in 96′
When we all went home delighted
We had just scored Five at St James’ Park
The opposition ? Manchester United.
So the club produced a video
And called it ‘Howay the lads Five -0 ‘
For […]

My suitcase is packed
And I have set the alarm clock
We could soon be playing Sunderland
In far off Bankok.
They say traveling is good for you
It broaden’s the mind
Away with the lads
Leaving the missus […]

Beneath the shadow of St James’ Park
We run our fast food van
On the same spot for Forty Years
Me and ‘Wor Lass’ Fran
We have seen so many players,
Managers come and go
And for the last Eleven seasons
Trades been […]

Smiling faces
Toon Army singing
Shirt sales booming
Tills a jingling
Unfinished business
To attend
Mike Ashley’s fortune
Spend….Spend….Spend.

It all comes down to the luck of the draw
And I dont believe in self pity
But it looks like a long trek to the Arsenal
Providing we get past Stoke City.
And no doubt another ridiculous kick off time
Just like the […]

It snowed heavy on that Christmas eve
Back in 1952
The dawn brought Christmas morning
And with it dreams came true.
Fot there on the chair
Beside my bed
A laced up football
Crimson red
A pair of boots
With laces […]

Mid table in the premiership
Is not such a crime
So why all the panic
Give the big man some time.
And as pencils are sharpened
By the tabloid hacks
Who without justifcation
Launch scathing attacks.
Games with […]

I could not face my breakfast
I had hardly slept a wink
I’d been to the Netty* a dozen times
And my nerves were on the brink.
I tried reading the morning paper
The headlines said it all
A victory for the TOON said […]

When John Barnes signed for ‘THE TOON ‘
His weight had gone up like a balloon
Well past his best when he joined us
The same as KLUIVERT, PEARCE and RUSH.
But now I see him in a different light
On the B.B.C. each […]

Bobby we were young men then
You our captain supreme
And me a Newcastle fan.
You held the trophy high
On your Tyneside return
And oh how we sang
You our captain fantastic
And me an ecstatic fan.
Bobby, you a […]

T.V.s in dugouts
A Hi-Tech approach
Negitive tactics
Down to the coach.
Scientific formulas
But we still can’t defend
Is all this modern technology
A means to an end ?
The game is quite simple
Just defend and […]

Another shocking display at Derby
Where Kenny Miller’s now a ram
The gaffer said we were jaded
Who you kidding Sam ?
We were a little more than jaded
No bottle, pride, or class
We could not take a corner
And no […]

In the premiership global market
With exorbitant transfer fees
We have a short fall in home grown talent
So we all have to look overseas.
We have signed a unknown defender
From a club in far Timbucktoo
Plus a big […]

The TIMES they are a saying
That Michael Owen he is a staying
All summer he has sat on the fence
But for the price of Sixty Five pence
His loyalty he is now relaying.

But it is difficult to know the extent
To […]

I am back off my holidays
And have been down the pub
Caught up on the gossip
Surrounding my favourite club.
Big Sam’s in the hot seat
The club has changed hands.
Long queues at the box office
And the switchboards […]

Oppisite St James’ Park
Once stood St James’ Hall
Where boxers practised the noble art
And the wrestlers they’d just brawl.
It was demolished long ago
But now an action group is starting
To rebuild the hall so one […]

I missed the last game of the season
Laid up in bed with the flu
Unfit to board the coach for Watford
Along with the rest of the crew.
But by now we had nothing to play for
And Glen Roeder had this week […]