Football Poets

There’s a Coke Cola ad doing the rounds
About “real fans” outside the emerald city
Of the premier league
But we all dream of walking down the
Yellow Brick Road
A tap of red boots
And there’s no place like […]

The season’s almost over
The last game now in sight
A student loan dont go so far
The matches done me, right?

A season ticket waiting list
As long as long is long
“It comes up with yer bus pass La”
The man said, […]

Wouldn’t it be grand
To find yourself adopted by a football club
Having your own little space in the ground
With a matchday programme, a paper cup of coffee
All in the name of Literacy
That would do for […]

Karol Wojtyla pulling on the green jersey
Lacing up his boots
Eyes fixed on the final game of the season
Confirms his plans for the team having run his best race
Tells the Captain “I’m almost ready lad,
Just […]

For those
Who will never walk alone
For those whose colours meet
In the warm hands of friendship
We will remember

For those
Who follow with passion and pride
For those who wish to forgive
Those whose cannot […]

For those
Who will never walk alone
For those whose colours meet
In the warm hands of friendship
We will remember

For those
Who follow with passion and pride
For those who wish to forgive
Those whose cannot […]

“Little Coin” fused with the alchemist’s art
Exquisite pearl in a team
Outshining Phoebus
Those flashing boots
Weaving a tapestry of gold
And goals
Jairzinho Rivelino Pele Tostao
Upon a Liverpool girl’s bedroom […]

Matthews blows through Heaven’s Door
Slight as summer shadows
Impossibly lean
The graceful strokes of genius
Reflecting the light of memories
With a shimmy of hips
And new miracles
He turns into the wind […]

Ronaldinho plays football no strings attached
His tricks Hundreds & Thousands scattered
Sky bound aerial acrobats
Black arrows dive bombing
Breach traffic lights mock hidden lenses
Dart left then right cut strips […]

Mill Road school doesn’t look much like Anfield
But upon its playing fields
I copied Stevie Heighway’s breathless runs
Bossed the game like Tommy Smith
Scored Keegan goals from Toshack’s telepathy
The Store […]

WiseGuys XI

Michael Corleone
Vito Corleone
Tommy Devito
Donnie Brasco
Jimmy Cagney
Humphrey Bogart
Jimmy “the gent” Conway
Al Capone
Lucky Luciano
Sam “momo” Giancana
Frank Sinatra

Subs:
Edward G […]

The press camped out with swords to pen
“The Hornets sting the Anfield men”
But Vicarage Road is not Turf Moor
Up stepped the Legend, we knew he’d score
So deck the halls with banners red
We’ve won ‘ere 3 times […]

Water and football
Thirst is the paradigm perhaps
But water influences football
In more ways than one
Tom Finney’s The Splash
Diouf spitting
Turf Moor’s mud mire
Players soaked in sweat
The biblical blood of […]

He looks forlorn sat there
Meja Punter hired microphone
Far from the dressing room
In the stands wrapped up
Against the mersey cold
It cuts like ice y’know
Like passion unrequited
Love for the former manager
Is […]

In amniotic fluids
Mersey waters rivers cold
And fragrant truths
My mother chose
Guinness dark and nicotine
But best of all
Two weeks to go
A trip to Anfield
Before my heaven
My earthbound heart
Beneath her […]

Our 23 with boots of gold
A Bootle lad A Red
His name a song in stories told
Our Jamie he’s the best

Anfield Legend tough as steel
The passion in his eyes
Upon the pitch 100 per cent
The Liverbird she smiles

He […]

Sylvia Plath
Might’ve stood here once
Where I am sitting
The Bob Lord Stand
Clarets to the left and to the right
No April snowdrops no IndianPipes
And like me
Cold and swept up
But they have passion for warmth
And […]

From the shadow of Finney
Flexing his wings
The Deepdale sun
Warm as Cerritos
Crossing with ease
The freewheelin’ No17.

Jimmy Case
Hard as nails
Forged his name
Boots of steel
Bossed the game
Fired his cannons
Caesar’s place
Anfield Legend
Jimmy Case.

Football, someone once said
Is a relatively simple game
You just pass and move
Just pass and move
Find space
And make yourself available
To receive the ball
Possession is the vein
Which carries the blood of […]