Football Poets

Pride of Padiham in the groove
A poem pie and pint
Aye goals sublime and tricky moves
And Daz O on the mic!

The boys in blue they do their best
To make themselves a name
They give their all and make us […]

In the year of Our Lord 1914
The call came for lads to join up with a team
So they packed up their boots with their hopes and dreams
And they offered their hearts for the price of a shilling
For the crown […]

Tonight
The turnstile will close
The whistle will be silenced
The watch will stop
The cards packed away
The boots that clashed sheathed
And the tackles shackled from the heat
of battle
We will step off […]

One name resonates
Diego Maradona
Football poetry.

Nobby Stiles
In white and red
Jigged with Jules Rimet
Not a tooth in his head!

Through the summers long gone and the winters to be
The songs that were sung by my old friends and me
So, what of the glorious days of the past
The nights that we lost and those that we danced
Dressed up with […]

From Huddersfield
Driving down in an Austin A40
No palms were thrown at his feet
No sweet Hosannas filled the skies
No heralds announced the saviour’s arrival
And beneath Liverpool’s sullen grey skies
He wal […]

The chapter and verse who beguiled and dazzled
With the smooth seduction of a million, million hearts
Beating to the rhythm of the beautiful soul
Whilst defences fell like discarded notes
From a trembling […]

Are you hangin’ up your trophies on the wall?
Are you watchin’ Salah mesmerise the ball?
The boot room days are over
And things not quite the same
But 3 European Cups still bear your name
What secrets did you […]

Football is as much geography as physiology
the pitch the very landscape of conjecture
its borders collect around the ground
tendered, watered, and cultivated
cajoled into imagined emerald grass
for molten […]

The Beautiful Game is a wonderful life
Gives us moments of joy wrapped in parcels of strife
The goals and the saves and the less and the more
The crosses and losses the wins and the draws
The badly behaved […]

200 souls in the pouring rain
Week in week out all here the same
Not for glory or the glimmer of fame
Grassroots for me not gravy train

Print match programme the odd refrain
22 footballers taking the […]

Shankly making the people happy
Mooro pristine in his tackles and kit
Banks of England with his safe pair of hands
Chippy Brady darting over the pitch
Adams as stoical as the house made of bricks
Football to […]

In the boots of a striker
The bliss of a kiss
The quiet of a heron
Pursuing a fish

Upstream and sparkling
Where the wild salmon dart
But most of all

Through the aching capillaries
Of my lost childhood’s heart.

You didn’t play football
On the grass of Strawberry Fields
You didn’t wear a red or blue scarf
You didn’t strain yer neck trying to watch
The game from the Kop at Anfield or
The street end at them there Blues […]

The toes of a dancer
The swish of a kiss
The splash of red ketchup
On lush fish and chips

Upstream and sparkling
Where the wild salmon dart
But most of all

Liverpool Football Club
The place in my heart.

Mi Scuse but I’m potty
For the charm of Ancelotti
Tho his chosen club of blue
Is not my mighty bold red hue.

No prima donna’s neon boots
No glitzy goalie aches to shoot
A sloping pitch a non-league dog
A Poem A Pie and A Pint of grog

Dogged defenders who stay the course
Strikers with the pace of Inspector M […]

The glory of football
In the matches we love
The breath-taking goals
The tip of the glove

But a club is a body
Of myriad parts
The backroom the boot room
Not just its stars

The steel of the […]