Football Poets

Hordes o’ screaming travelling Manc’s
Agog, up in The Gods stood giving thanks
When that last gasp header crept in on full-time
Appeared mysteriously dumb-struck
At a partner, girl-friend, wife, sister, mum […]

A ruse to suss-out her current beau
Brede asked him would he like to go…
“Over The Bridge”, to pay homage to the chaps
“You mean…you’re like a die-hard Chelsea fan?”,
“S’right babe, bleating proud of it I am […]

Ah, those Clapham Common morning games
Getting stuck in…to likewise puny frames
A crunching tackle, deemed bravado, sport or fun
The restraint a combatant need show
To dealing a fitter young fella…The E […]

Is there anything like the absolutely blinding thrill
Watching a marauding one hundred mill?
In the guise of our returning prodigal chosen one?
Dump some hapless Gooner on his fife and drum
Leading the line to […]

Spurs have just beaten City…again
Dismissed by Guardiola as, “The Harry Kane Team”,
That’s four on the spin for the boys down The Lane
Whom appear, right on Song it would seem?

“We conceded due to loose b […]

Midst dream during those twilight hours
Used try discard our past, an ponder
If…that bandy fella plied his trade at ours
T’would be a sight at which to wonder…

You know, stocky little centre forwa […]

We’re absolutely over the moon here in West London
As the new season gets ready to roll
T’aint the millions splashed on returning prodigal son
Or the epiphany of our geezer in goal.

Nah, it’s waking up to a […]

I speak not as a fan of a quote, fashionable club
But as a long-suffering fan of a debateable game?
Suffice to say I’m not sat quaffing pints in a pub
Or, as far as I’m aware, teetering on going ins […]

John-Joe sparked a smoke
Cracked a snarky topical joke
Bout Billy Bunter o’ The Arsenal, used play for us,
“As for Over-Eden Hazard at Madrid?
Injured? Who’s that Belgian trying a kid?
Quaffing mayoed pom […]

Outside Soho’s Bar Italia…
As I passed by there, yesterday
I’m sure I heard a suave barista say…
(Pray, excuse my Italian by the way),
“Calcio sta tornando a casa*
Problema per l’inglese?
E casa e Roma”.

Aim dog’s abuse at; the manager,
Spineless members of the team,
The slick suave svelte, Forza Italia
Destroyed a united nation’s dream.

Try n ignore those rabid Billy Bunters
Embarrass our beloved cou […]

“Police Leave Cancelled For Final o’ Euro-nations”,
Wary Britalians body-swerve their local Trat
Packed trains lumber in to Central London stations
Soused sardines, stagger-out, streaming to…the match.

A dru […]

By The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, in the city*
Rumour has it and I quote…
“Bankers haven’t witnessed Sterling fall that quickly
Since the day of The Brexit vote”.

Two balls on the pitch?
At best, an iffy penalty kick?
A green light beamed in Kasper Schmeichel’s face?
Danish national anthem loudly booed?
Flipped over a country’s triumphant mood
To what us real fans loa […]

An Exocet crashes neath a bar
Courtesy of a fledgling rising star
Progeny o’ Hans Christian Andersen’s wonderland
Portly partisan punters scream aghast
Having conceded one at last
Coming home, ain’t looki […]

A re-ignited Spain, should be applauded
Their efforts praised, and rightly lauded
Luis Enrique (of Gijon), prepped a proper mustard team
Hats off to an out of sorts Alvaro Morata
A shadow up-front, an area he […]

Searching for Elysian Fields, Utopia
Nirvana, The Golden Fleece, Tir na nOg?
The next Bernard Briggs, Roy o’ The Rovers,
Or the fortuitous ill-named Hand a God?

Nah. Desiring dreams ain’t reality, true to […]

In there, fighting still
Beating Ukraine four goals to nil
On a balmy night in The Eternal City…Rome.

Time to shower, board a plane
Fly back to Blighty, face The Danes
On Wednesday night in our Eternal H […]

Enthusiastic, far from sheepish flocks
A colourful bleary-eyed sweaty sock’s
Supping cans of reviving Iron Bru, march on parade
An occasional, ”See You Jimmy?”, friendly shout
Aimed at a puzzled South […]