Football Poets

JAR
Hard working lad
And that left peg of his
Uses it like a pinball flipper
Whipping up a ring of fire.

King Kenny a magician
Charmed the ball
With his hypnotic boots
Conjured tricks that
Tied defences up in knots
Whilst Houdini raged
With jealousy.

He sailed into the port of Liverpool
He came in peace to stay
To teach the lads about our past
Shankly’s Liverpool Way

He knows the words to all our songs
And joins in with the Kop
He’s won our hearts and minds […]

The New Messiah some have said
The Glory Days wrapped up in Red
The Euro Nights he’s down the pub
Singing songs of this grand club

He’s never still he walks the line
Keeps them working all the time
Post match […]

“Some say God, we say Shankly”

Liverpool the name conjures up the eternal child
In me named by 18 Leagues 4 European Cups
The smile of Emlyn Hughes eclipsed the moon
That night in Rome whilst Bob savoured […]

Moses bored in heaven yawned
And gazed down through the clouds
His eyes were caught by banners held
A red sea for a crowd

He watched the faithful walk on by
And wondered “What’s all this?
A wave of red scarves […]

Rafa’s Lads they did us proud
And kept them quiet the Chelsea crowd
Rafa La Bamba filled the skies
YNWA made our throats dry
London Town was wrapped in flags
The glory nights of Europe back
Trafalgar Square was […]

We lost the match its just a game
Return from London on the train
Disheartened yes but C’mon the Reds
We’ll be back this way
Champions League
We’ll storm the bridge, and take the shed!

In the town where I was born
Lives a man plays for the Reds
And his boots are made of gold
And he’s Bootle born and bred
WE ALL LIVE IN A JAMIE CARRA KOP
A JAMIE CARRA KOP
A JAMIE CARRA KOP!
WE ALL LIVE IN A JAMIE […]

Some loved the Osmonds “DonnyMania”
Some loved Slade The Jackson 5
Suzi Quatro Sweet and Mud
Barry Blue dancing on a Saturday night
Bill Shankly Reds their passing rhythms
Tight as drums ne’er missed a beat
From […]

Anfield is my Haworth where Heighway
Not Heathcliffe 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 […]

All down the Anfield Road
And the Walton Breck you’ll see
A sea of red to fill your heart
Red sky sways with Red sea
There’s songs for every Redmen
From the page of history
And new ones written from the heart
For […]

Boots sharpened like pencils
Pierced defences
With the lightning of Zeus
Beneath a red sky
Filled with pride.

Football is a political game
Twisting and turning
Forever asking questions
Of its main protaganists
Nutmegging the opposition
Shimmies to the left
A feint to the right
And then slipping
Through the middle
To […]

The Reds are coming down Boys
The town will soon turn Red
So bring yer scarves and banners boys
And bring yer songs as well
Nelson jumps right off that plinth
And walks on with the Kop
And he’ll be in The Albert […]

1988 and the Boys from Brazil
Poor arl Aldo’s havin’ nightmares still
Kenny’s Double Double and Aldo steps up
A penalty miss costs us the cup
And then its the Spice boys in 1996
Kung Fu Cantona strikes, I never […]

Our Saviour Shankly came to us in 1959
And lads like me Dad yelled “About bloody time!”
Tho they loved Billy Liddellpool and cheered him in the Kop
They were sick of being second class, time this had to stop
The […]

Liddell and Stubbins
Paisley and Case
Heighway and Keegan
Toshack and Lee
Kennedy Alan
And Kennedy Ray
Terry McDermott
THE LIVERPOOL WAY
Big Alec Lindsay
And Lawler the ghost
Emlyn and Clem
Smithy and Thommo
And […]

Majestic seas lapped
At the gates of heaven here
The waves sang to each
Other like scouse mermaids
Jostling in the water
And the Great Ship
Whose topsails grazed
The face of God
Pushed grandly on
And with a […]

He’s not graceful in the mould of a
Football Michelangelo
Nor the subtlety of Picasso’s cubism
And perhaps Van Gogh would wince
Monet shrug and put his brushes away
More Tracy Emmin “IN YER FACE”
But by God on a […]