• Time Travel.
    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 3rd round down at Stoke Six o clock on a Sunday […]
  • Christmas 1952.
    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 white I put them on And tied them tight. And a Stanley Mathews annual […]
  • Big Sam….Big task.
    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 Arsenal and Birmingham They said we dare not lose So we took a point off the gunners […]
  • It’s all there……In Black n White.
    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 Shearer It’s the MACKEMS wrote Kevin Ball. The Tyne and Wear […]
  • Dancing Feet.
    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 Saturday night Foxtrot, Quickstep, Bossa Nova Just when he thought his […]