Football Poets

When all seems stocked against you
And the future aye looks bleak
The road at times seems way too long
The mountains sure too steep
Hope ‘gainst hope and pull on boots
Walk on walk on so bold
Play on f […]

Out on the football fields
Williams finds her true home
The record-breaking golden girl
With the world of the ball at her feet
Instrumental play-maker weaving and teasing
Those big game changing […]

Football Poetry
The goals the songs the heartbreaks
Cabbages and kings.

Man of blood
Not impenetrable stone
Who gathered genius
Like fish in a net
Hewn from the same Scottish rock
Of Stein and Shankly
Game changer supreme
Father figure whose beloved sons
Perished in the cruel […]

When I was in high school all those years ago
In English I was taught Keats’ “Ode To A Grecian Urn”
And whilst I loved this bright star’s resilient rebellion
Not one single word other than those in the title d […]

Nat Lofthouse
Bolton Wanderers
Patron saint
Of aerial combat
His tireless lion heart
Pursued lost causes
With the passion of St. Jude
And gave them all a home.

‘Trump Baby’
Pumped full of hot air
Blows football off the pages
Grabs the Ingerland press headlines
High Flyin’ in the London sunshine
A gargantuan blimp
In the best mode of Carnival
The crowd howls with […]

Gareth Southgate and his World Cup boys
Gave us an England free of snarling yobs
And instead a smile a hug a warm embrace
Of eternal hope over short lived hate
And the heart of football found its home
In a […]

The Welsh Spaniard now flown
Elegance of a Bolivian no.2 cigar
By his boots ye shall know him
Unlike lesser kings
Who chase the white rabbit of fame
Rangel found his aelwyd hearth
Within the grace of […]

The scent of the white owl cigar
Pervades the Firhill dugout
Of a different time and place
No fire without smoke

His name resolutely hewn
From the same immortal rock as
Shankly Busby Stein, football […]

I love Gareth Southgate’s M&S waistcoat
And Harry Kane’s (almost) golden boot
And Harry Maguire’s bullet head
But although we cry ‘God for Harry….’
I won’t say “Football’s Coming Home!”
Not no nae never, […]

Football loves its trinities
And like the Holy Ghost
Always feels more at home
When the other two are close

Hansen, Souness and Dalglish
Or the 3 Jocks as they’re known
Leaped right over Hadrian’s Wal […]

Who knows what will happen when England play Sweden
Nae more Turnips v Swedes that’s fae sure
And yon Southgate in his smart waistcoat
Put that ghost of ’96 to sleep
A lesson in patience resilience […]

The incredible Inexplicable
Unexplainable bewitching
Ineffable passion of football touches us all
In some way somehow somewhere
Bigger than @realDonaldTrump
Wilder than Rock & Roll
Bosser than […]