Football Poets

Thrown out by Sir Fergie
Became a Holte end hero
Beckoned the knackers yard
And McGrath hit minus zero

Curse the dreaded bottle
Suppressed by the Villa Park reign
Irish cordiality meant he’d never
Have to pay f […]

Emerald prodigy
Besotted with drink
Irish eyes are smiling
McGrath

Number7
(c) Emdad Rahman

In the Indy there’s talk of Alan Hudson
Nonpareil Frank Worthington
Stan Bowles the snake charmer
All with less caps than Carlton Palmer

Always one to go in headfirst
Bad boy from Northern Collyhurst
Loftus R […]

First Brit or Irish player
Lone post for Dublin Robbie
Passing the fifty goal barrier
Broke the record held by Sir Bobby

Not just goals against the lesser 
Netherlands then Italia
So called minnows M […]

Thoroughbred from Dundalk
All out to pop the bubble
Fought Sir Matt’s Babes to foil
The century’s first double

Remembering the fifty seven final
McParland away Scott free
With the most notorious challenge
In FA […]

Paul Scholes the shy hero
Zidane’s “toughest opponent”
“Undoubtedly the greatest of his generation”
That vital midfield component

Unassumingly loyal one club man
Ten league titles on the run
Vision, touch, wild […]

1982 European Cup Final

De Kuip in swanky Rotterdam
In town Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Villa’s claret face Bavarian might
Mortimer locks horns with Breitner

Old hand Withe pairs young marvel Shaw
Opposite Hoeness a […]

Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United
Champions League Final 2011

Wembley home of football
Welcomes Sir Alex the great 
Brilliance from Guardiola
Amidst the spirit of sixty eight

Barca repeat the Roman siege
Stadio […]

No Monsieur Houllier
To greet Dalglish the magician
Gary Mac sensed easy prey
With Carroll, Maxi, Johnson’s omission

Albrighton’s sumptuous assist
Downing with the crisp finish
Scenes of joy quite hard to res […]

Scottish Cup Final
Motherwell 0-3 Celtic

In the world’s oldest national cup
A colossal goal from Sung Ki
Own goal Craigan slip up
Centre spot points the referee

Mulgrew lines up to propel
Hampden goal number […]

César Menotti’s World Cup winner
With hair that was shaggy
Argentina’s greatest keeper
Matildo’s shorts were so baggy

Racing Club rang the bell chime
Faced six penalties unstuck
Argentine record at the t […]

Race for the Europa League
Goes down to the final day
Spurs win adding Intrigue
One game left for the final say

Van Der Vaart with an exquisite volley
Dodgy penalty won by Pienaar
Webb with a moment of pure […]

Three hundred third league win
Kilmarnock at Rugby Park
Changed football from within
After Souness had lit the spark

Played Gough, Laudrup, Goram
Hately stayed, out went Mo
McCoist and Gazza caused […]

Manchester City 1-0 Stoke
FA Cup Final 2011

Two months before I was born 
Seventy six at Wembley
Overhead by Denis Tuert
Citeh League Cup glory

Energy of Sky Blue Nijinsky
Oak heart of Colin Bell 
Broke Tony P […]

Carra hits triple six
Passing Crazy Horse and Clem
Second to Cally’s record fix
Encore for Kenny’s Red Gem

Ninety minutes of pure chaos
Maxi! Maxi Rodriguez
Mopped up with tomato sauce
Left side braised by […]

No Thuram’s World Cup semi brace
No Zidane’s World Cup final spinner
No Wiltord for Euro glory
No Trezeguet’s Golden Goal winner

Is French football racist?
Blaquart shoots a smoking gun
Views from the cul […]

Royal wedding day does approach
Her Majesty ever the Gaffer
Prince Charles First Team Coach
Watching Kate & Wills twinned together

Are man & wife a matching strike pair?
Rock solid centre back pairing?
Midfield […]

I sat there watching United 
My eyes glued to the screen
Best Beeb sports docudrama 
I’ve had the good fortune to have seen

First division to return to
Hurried victorious from Belgrade
Whims of an ill fated ai […]

Kuyt’s eighth in seven
Neat from El Pistolero
Maxi with an absolute given
Whilst the goals continue to flow

Away fans hurled vitriol
Barton looked to out psych
From the long haired giant Carroll
Required was a […]

With “tremendous fluent gifts”
Brian Glanville penned the spark
Illusion in classic Hummell
Laudrup, Prince of Denmark

Master of the “spoon” pass
Five La Liga’s in a row
“Was the greatest” proclaimed Stoickov
“El […]