Football Poets

Whilst the world’s press
fawn and fuss
over Ronaldos moth
And Bales manbun
There is a football competition
Going on in Glasgow
Shirts of every colour blend
Picasso cant keep up

Football history is being […]

In goal there’s Nicko as steady as stone
Swapped blue for white and found a new home
Right back is Yatesy a machine scoring goals
In the Cup he was magic as St Yates Day now known!

From the youth ranks McGreal a […]

Farewell Johan Cruyff
You was a prince upon the park
And how you lit those pitches up
Left defences in the dark

God bless you Johan Cruyff
You gave us football with some clout
And in the Orange of the […]

The Stanley Boys they make some noise
And sing up for the team
Red and White their flags unfurled
And make the faithful dream

For 90 minutes from the Kop
The songs like hymns implore
The Little Reds ATTACK […]

Bill Shankly loved the auld red scarf
A Scotsman proud he said
Like Chairman Mao and Moses
I stand before a mighty sea of Red

Its colours hold the dreams of all
Each heart in every thread
And like a banner […]

Perched on a wall
Seven lads watching the game
Bobble hats and bare knees
In the wind and rain

Seven little scallies
Doing what lads do
Watching the football
On a Saturday afternoon

Sat behind the goalie
In […]

Your kisses reign
Like Fontaine’s goals
Like Matthew’s ghost
You race
Across the pitches of my soul
Like Bestie, full of grace

Your laces twist
Around my thoughts
Like Roger Milla’s hips
Between the goalposts
Of […]

No not Matthews or Bowles
But Accrington Stanley
Ian Rush’s favourite Reds
Oooo are dey?
I hear ye cry
Well look to your football history
Take a trip down memory lane
And with tones of the late Joe Gladwin
Slip […]

As the seasons come then race away
And hopes all turned to dust
Fortunes made and fortunes spent
Of titles won, and lost

What price this love this fickle dream
Which binds with such a bond
That turns us all […]

Football needs its players
Its fans to make the game
Managers and referees
Too numerous to name
The scarf a must accessory
Just like the football shirt
But football boots and trainers
Are clearly de […]

The technicolour black and white
Diamond brilliance
Of generations who stood
On the terrace choir
Throats blistered with unrequited passion
Whilst its youth watched champions deposed
And parliament auction the […]

Strawberry Fields and Walrus dreams
And Shankly spoke of Billy Dean
And Dalglish reigned our Anfield King
And life was sweet, or so it seemed…

Christ we know that troubles breed
But seeds of love must yet […]

A team made from Lawler, Cally and Hall
Ian St John and give Sir Roger the ball
Big Tosh touches heaven and grazes his head
Whilst King Kev passes Vogts and leaves him for dead

There’s Terry Mac racing and […]

In the silence of that empty tomb
From the blood shed from the cross
It thunders through our history
Reminds us of the cost
It screamed beneath the Roman boot
And banged against its marble walls
It tore the chains […]

Football
Sunday park leaguers
Premier dreamers
With Beckham’s hairstyles
But not his goals
The dead eye on managers
Whose hearts win matches
But whose tactics won’t
And patience for sale
For the price of 3 […]

I grew my hair long
Like Charlie George
Must have magical powers
Long hair like that
Like Samson
Like Jesus
So I let mine grow
And yet the magician’s art
For scoring goals still eluded me
I knew the body […]

Football history tells its tales
Of childhoods hope and dreams
And there the same in black and white
The boys of Irwell Springs

Leather Casey’s caked like mud pies
Knitted shirts that scratched and scra […]

Anfield is my Haworth where Heighway
Not Heathcliff thrilled my soul
Anfield is my Heartland whose daffodils
Are red flowers who blossom
And bloom with passion
Anfield is my Jerusalem
Dalglish my arrow of burning […]