Football Poets

Sweden 2-0 France

Ibrahimovic hysteria
Bicycle kick outside the area
Best goal of the games so far

Larsson turned the screw
Les Bleus still make it through
Blanc nervously lights the […]

Croatia 0-1 Spain

Del Bosque released the fury
La Furia Roja seal their fate
Not so convinced though were the jury
Modric and Rakitic banged on the gate

Torres came out with empty guns
Kockasti looked to make […]

Italy 2-0 Republic of Ireland

Poznan with all the suspense
Damien Duff not out with a century
Pirlo’s corner placed on the sixpence
Six yard box Cassano heading free

De Rossi again bossed the play
Shay Given […]

Portugal 2-1 Holland

Keano and Viera with the studio banter
Van Bomm ditched with a Father’s Day gift
Van Der Vaart pinged a screamer
Red and Oranje dueledl in Kharkiv

Ronaldo stalked the back three like a […]

Denmark 1-2 Germany

Early chance mullered by Muller
Danes struggled with the Tiki Taka

One nil through Podolski the Gunner

Lukas with one hundred caps
Krohn-Dehli threatened a lapse

Late winner from fullback […]

Czech Republic 1-0 Poland

Heartbreak for forty million Poles
Smuda’s team chucked the book
Going all out in pursuit for goals
Falling foul to Jiracek’s counter hook

At Wroclaw’s Municipal ground
Szczezny not […]

Greece 1-0 Russia

Giorgos Karagounis gave plenty
Winning goal and cap one twenty

Knocking out the Russian heavyweight

Advocaat’s free flowing teams tingle
Failing to muster a single

Shockingly Greece reach the […]

Sweden 2-3 England

Playing footy I kept tabs on the iPhone
Was sure Sweden would leave with nowt
Anthem spoilt by the deafening drone
God save the Queen drowned out

All but a home game for the yellow
Another day […]

Spain 4-0 Ireland

Gdansk for a goal shower
Silva passing into the corner

La Roja dishing up a treat

Six yard box bullet from Cesc
Shay Given statuesque

Even Nando twice on the […]

Italy 1-1 Croatia

Majestic all match
Years ahead of the batch

Andrea Pirlo curls an exquisite free kick

With Modric pulling the strings
Rakitic bombed the wings

Mandzukic pulled out his own party trick […]

Holland 1-2 Germany

Another day, another intense rivalry
Mr Bayern lays the ball on a dish
Rotten luck for R Van Persie
Mr Zuverlässig turning for the finish

Van Bommell’s last in the jersey
First half the […]

Denmark 3-2 Portugal

More fireworks at the Lviv Arena
Pepe’s head the first off the mark
Dreams of sun and the yacht in the marina
Ronal-Doh’s mind some way off the park

When Postiga thumped in another
Great […]

Poland 1-1 Russia

Near to Stalin’s palace of culture
Swooped Dzagoev the Russian vulture

Red Army piling on great style
Wily Arshavin supplying all the guile

Sandwiched between a rivalry most bitter
Nervy […]

Greece 1-2 Czech Republic

In Wroclaw the Greeks bore gifts
Jiracek with a very early lift

Second stake thrust by Vaclav Pilar
With the instinct of a serial killer

When Cech crazily fumbled in the heat
Gekas […]

Ukraine 2-1 Sweden

They said he was over the hill
Time for an affectionate farewell
Dispelled much whilst going for the kill
In a terrific seven minute spell

Another icon sets events in motion
Ibrahimovich […]

France 1-1 England

Donetsk a greenhouse of humidity
Honed in centre from Stevie G
Rude not to finish such a delivery
Sky Blue Lescott bang on the money

Would Les Blues unbeaten streak survive?
As England waltzed […]

Republic of Ireland 1-3 Croatia

Two goals early in each half
Concentration a deciding factor
Mandzukic and Given struck two
Memorable first from Sean St Ledger

Calls for offside disproved by a replay
Clinical by […]

Spain 1-1 Italy

La Roja faced the Azzurri
No famed Spanish firepower?
Not a striker in sight, no focal point
Arena Gdansk at Euro rush hour

Pirlo skipped Xavi, weighing a pass
Conductors of such intricate […]

Germany 1-0 Portugal

Portugese dry as Rye bread
Gomez powered in with the head

Win starts the German campaign

With sudden get up and go
Cuffs freed from Nani and Ronaldo

Neuer made sure it all ended in […]

Denmark 1-0 Holland

With Total Football no more a pledge
Team Oranje lacked cutting edge

Restrained Holland ran out of breath

Wasteful Robben and Van Persie
Ruthlessness by Krohn-Dehli

Danes with the first […]