Football Poets

All around the country
There is a gathering pulse-beat, a small yet vital sign of life
The first heads of the green shoots beginning to push up and out into the light
New kits on the block
Relegation battles […]

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 […]

Oh how well orchestrated the redemption
Playing cards with God
No sleight of hand needed
When the boots were blessed
With such divine miracles
6 lions not 3 left stranded bewildered
Some say bewitched and […]

It told me that kopite Phil Downey had sadly passed away
And I took some time to take this in, then emotion carried me effortlessly back through memories,
Flying through decades of divorce and death and birth […]

Lily strikes a pose
Not the women’s or men’s game
Just football, for all.

Long after the songs have been sung
And the red flares that flooded the sky have slowly dispersed
The billowing flags of poetry and sardonic Scouse wit folded for memories
The football streets of Liverpool […]

Klopp’s name writ home with
Paisley Fagan Benitez
The Fab Four Walk On.

I wasn’t at Anfield last night
I was at home in Appin
Glued to the radio, hoping always hoping
In our little corner of Scousedom here in Argyll
And Klopp spot on when he spoke of this Liverpool […]

When football creates
Her miraculous comebacks
Liverpool FC.

McNeill leads the Lions
Di Steviano arrives
Upon heaven’s park.

Farewell to Cesar
Celtic Man Lisbon Lion
King of the Jungle.

On this day recall
Justice never walks alone
96 reasons why.

“The Anfield Iron”
I remember like yesterday
When you rose up like a Scouse salmon
To claim the crown in Rome
30, 000 Kopites shook their heads
With disbelief and then took off
For the moon
But me and Dad […]