Football Poets

Who feels the Rohingya’s pain?
Aung San Suu Kyi not even a murmur
Mythical peace lovers frown with disdain
Twelve unite to play for Burma

Berner El Classico by Human Relief
Rakhine, Walford, and the roar of the […]

Leapt between two against Austria
“You’ll score,” said Tacconi
Eternal City with a mass cheer
Rome salutes Toto Schillachi

Watching the Palermo boy fly
Heading the Czechs a swift death wish
Swerving drive […]

Liverpool 1-2 Man Utd

Suarez shakes off the hostility
For a while enmity is put to bed
Poignant gesture from Sir Bobby
Rushie accepting for Hillsborough’s dead

Grand play from the Anfield men
But Jonjo packed o […]

France 0-0 China

Shades and looks of Robert Pires
Star man Frederic Villeroux 
“I’ll sweep up,” Maya say’s
As the fans screamed Allez Les Bleus

China with the great Zhang LJ
Matched the French in a tough […]

Brazil 4-0 Turkey

Went to watch the jingle bell ball
Captivated in awe all day long
Knockout tackles saw billboards fall
Think Pirlo paired with De Jong

Double Golds sink Turkey without trace
It’s blind football […]

West Brom 3-0 Liverpool

Stylish start to the Steve Clarke era
Baggies with a resonant victory
Golden goal strike from Zoltan Gera
Doubled by Odemwingie

Agger off for laying it on thick
Suarez carded by ref […]

Cruyff decked by Uli Hoeness in Munich 
Corner flag delay in the World Cup final
Jack Taylor awards Oranje a Spot kick
West Germans yet to touch the ball

Beckenbauer’s  protests the black rock dismissed
First pe […]

I disagree with the great Bill Shankly
Death still hovers in the South Gaza strip
Rafah arrest denounced by Amnesty
No indictment, just an iron clad grip

Humanity hushed, meek and blind in denial
Three year […]

Spain 4-0 Italy – Euro 2012 final

Eyes on Kiev savour sensational Spain
Front man Cesc sets Long John Silva
Endures football’s most amazing reign
Xabi’s through ball swooped on by Alba

Red Matadors frankly […]

Germany 1-2 Italy

Blues with no finals loss to Germany
Super Mario lights up Warsaw
Heading Azzurro Savoia ahead on twenty
Roman tensions beginning to thaw

Attacking eleven Prandelli had declared
Pirlo tucked […]

Duff reaches hundred haiku

a footballing monk
Trapattoni’s quiet man
humility lives

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Cassano haiku

life of wild excess
parties and debauchery
cherry gives seconds

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German head coach […]

Portugal 0-0 Spain – Spain win 4-2 on penalties

They said Portugal just had Ronaldo
But turning up were Nani and Moutinho
Odd choice with the selection of Negredo
Del trying rotation like Joachim Löw

Donetsk […]

lombardy’s hero
outrageous l’architetto
dinking hart’s shadow

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(c) Emdad Rahman

german goal machine
honing in on der bomber
finals goals galore

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(c) Emdad Rahman

not left Italy
Pirlo the “homophobic”?
should that read homesick?

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(c) Emdad Rahman

England 0-0 Italy (Italy win 4-2 on penalties)

Harrowing penalty shootout
Lions fumbling the dead ball test
Azzurri controlling the 0-0 rout
Roy Hodgson’s men always second best

Montolivo had created false hope […]

Spain 2-0 France

Samir Nasri given the shun
Xabi reaches a century of caps
Blanc deployed four five one
Designed to suffocate the gaps

Open spaces in Donbass Arena
Jordi Alba stuck one in between
tanking in came […]

Germany 4-2 Greece

Pure dominance from Die Mannschaft
Lahm with a dominant display
Second string signed the bank draft
Samaras threatened to outstay

Sami Khedira with a blaster
Cue a goal avalanche […]

Czech Republic 0-1 Portugal

Great players will persist
The wily Rosicky much missed
Ronaldo thundered the post

Once in each half
Inspiring his fellow staff

Cech beaten by a shadowy red ghost

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England 1-0 Ukraine

Hosts stand in the way of the knockout
Three lions intending to plunder
Roy hoping to break the drought
With the return of the boy wonder

Playing at the Donbass Arena
Ukraine have never won […]