Football Poets

If all footballers were pop songs, John Terry could be ‘Please don’t go’
Robbie Fowler could be ‘Down under’, City’s new signings could be ‘Hello’
Michael Owen could be ‘Back in the high life’; Peter Crouch could […]

Whilst watching my ‘best goals video’ I thought ‘I could do that myself’
Like the goal scored at Edgeley Park, by Leeds United’s Fabian Delph
That wonderful overhead kick, by West Ham’s Trevor Sinclair
Or […]

“What if I don’t make it”? The little boy said to his dad
“I’ve got two left feet and a sheriff’s badge, it really makes me mad”,
“I want you to be proud of me, and I will practice all day long,
But if I […]

Let me tell you all again
That I remember when
Stockport County won the FA Cup
And that they did it with ten men

3rd round at ‘home’ against Liverpool
Alan Ogley kept a clean sheet
And Mickey Flynn was just awe […]

We used to go out every week at the same time
to watch our club
Now there’s a game on television,
24 seven down at the pub.

You used to be able to plan your week,
so that Saturday was for the ‘footie’
Now we ha […]

Will we ever find out the truth, about our football club’s demise?
Or will it always remain surrounded by ‘conspiracies’ and ‘lies’
There’s so much blame and counter blame, we just don’t know who to trust
All we […]

One day in May 2008, I was proud as proud could be
My team had won for the first time, at the famous Wemb(er)ly
It wasn’t too long after that, we got news we didn’t want to hear
Our ‘hero’, Liam Dickinson, would n […]

Every football club has got them,
They’re tiresome, loud and ‘gobby’
There should be ways to stop them getting in,
Perhaps I will start a ‘lobby’

I’ve had one or two sit next to me,
Up and down the years
Some […]

My town, it had a football team, not big, but always ours
A lot’s gone wrong at the club of late, more so in the last 48 hours
As things got worse from day to day, our anger and frustration
Was finally tipped over […]

When Thierry Henry scored against the blues,
he thought it would be really ‘ace’
To celebrate with a corner flag’
but it hit him in the face

Man City’s ‘goat’ got carried away,
when Anelka he had scored
Shau […]

They’re known the world over as a truly great football team
They’ve won the world cup five times
And play in yellow, blue and green

To watch them play their football, you won’t need to travel far
Their new ‘home […]

The question of being a ‘true’ football fan,
Really shouldn’t have anyone torn
The answer is, the team you should support,
Is within 25 miles of where you were born

There are only a few good reasons why, […]

The ‘keepers’ shirt at County, has been worn by many a good number 1
But for me the worst I’ve ever seen, has to be Carl Muggleton
Closely followed by Tim Flowers, who to be fair, was passed his prime
12 goals […]

These are all heroes’, through from my early days at Edgeley Park
Some played when times were bright, some played when times were dark
They are all players that wore shirts numbered 1 thru to 11
When even at the w […]

I organise the ‘practice sessions’
I co-ordinate the ‘drills’
On ‘match day’ pick my best eleven
To give the fans their thrills

I will give ‘pre-match’ instructions
On how to win this game
Because I know, should […]

At a meeting in a ‘Coffee House’,
In the year of eighteen eighty three
they formed Heaton Norris Rovers
a football team for all to see

And here we are a long time forward,
125 years to be precise
But now we’ […]

This is a story about a player, but most of all a man
Who came to Stockport County, as part of a bigger plan
An early injury at Edgeley Park could have seen it all end in tears
But he recovered and played for the […]

Football, we love it, we would watch it all day long
24 hours a day on telly, how could that be seen as wrong?
We would give up almost everything, to see our favourite game
But we have to sleep at some stage, it […]

The Man from Uruguay

His name was Danny Bergara, the Man from Uruguay
He came to us from Rochdale, we all wondered…why?
It didn’t take too long for us to understand the reason,
as he took us to the ‘pl […]

We may not want to believe it, though we know that he has gone
The man who summed up all our feelings, as City fell three one
Goodbye Richard Harnwell, you were really quite a guy
I know you’ll still be c […]