Football Poets

The leg is broken
The pain cuts through skin
And feeds with delight upon bone
The blood is wiped clean with bandages
The pain numbed with anaesthetic
But who will pick his dreams up
That lay in pieces upon the pitch.

I grew my hair long
Just 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 […]

Like rains in the desert
Like winds on the moon
The Premiership Title
I will bring to you…
Soon.

So long Yosser
Walk on with Shanks, and Bob and Joe
96 Reds will show you round Heaven son
Make yourself at home
Whilst we remember your passion for the ‘Pool
The Cups you lifted up to the Liver Birds
The Pride […]

Crazy Horse
Grand Captain son
Think ’77
When those old red devils
Snatched the winning goal
Tommy smiled but Bob had the last laugh
I watched your tears fall to the silence of
The Wembley turf, there was no […]

Love is being home stood in the Kop
Love is joining in with “Scouser Tom”
Love is us cream of the crop
Love is

Love is singing proud to every song
Love is knowing here I belong
Love is me Dad a redman gone
Love […]

Your eyes shine
Like Garcia through
Your lips as red
As Gerrard’s boots
You’re my Champions League my FA Cup
My Kenny Dalglish my Ian Rush

You trap my dreams
Nutmeg my soul
You’re Shankly’s words
You’re R […]

Water
Giver of life cleanses receives
The Baptist used it making waves in Jordan
Before the Christ before the word had spoken
The Plumber needs water knows its power
And harnesses it
Works his skills with a […]

I want a Jesus
Who pulls on His football boots
To deliver sermons
Who wears a football shirt
On Sundays left over
From Saturday’s results
Who stands in the Kop
With His mates
Singin’ His heart out
And shakin’ […]

I don’t care about daffodils
Westminster bridge I’m just bored stiff
Those funny words for naming words
Haiku for you, I just don’t care

Give me a poem that really yells
Right thought my heart with whistles and […]

John Cooper Clarke
Has his poems on the
National curriculum now
Too late for me
But I envy those who have his
Salford metaphors in a classroom
As a reason to pick up a book
And read to discover that someone […]

They have pictures of miracles
At the football museum
Photographs that hold
Within the flimsy paper
Faith, Hope, Love
Wrapped up in football boots
That we all longed to pull on
Wrapped up in football shirts
We […]

Sat with me Dad was speakin’ then
We shared the scarf so close again
Don’t want to lose now we won’t draw
The night King Kenny scored

The stars were bright the LiverBird
Back in the Pool heard every word
Her […]

I’m goin’ down to Christie Park
Rhythms found at Gigg lane too
The purest spirit football style
I got the premiership weary blues!

Let me chant down at Turf Moor
And sing me songs at Deepdale too
Beneath the rain […]

Maggie Thatcher’s turned left wing
Dennis Skinner loves the Queen
Arthur Scargill’s Blue not Red
Cos Bobby Moore he can’t be dead

The skies have fallen to the seas
Tony Blair says what he means
Lies from tabloids […]

There’s miracles at Anfield they said
By the banks of the Mersey
Christ stood by the waters
Wondering whether to walk
Or swim
Shankly beside him smiling
And he said to God “Where ye from Son?”
And Jesus answered […]

I want to go to work
In me red Liverpool shirt
I want to sit in school
In me Liver Cool
I’m wearin’ me Liverpool shirt

I want to sit in lectures
In me Liverpool scarf
Wrapped up in Dalglish’s
Exqusite arcs
I’m […]

Down Mathew Street
From Anfield Road
Through winter’s haze
Forgotten tho
I stumbled through my past
Then stole
A word for Shankly’s Ghost

Down North John Street
And then to Bold
The Slaughterhouse
Quite drunk I […]

Farewell Berti Vogts
The poisioned chalice
That is “international football manager”
Claims yet another scalp
And they will pick the bones no doubt
But still
Your medals as a player go on
Get them out
Those […]

The men in red round here will gather
A song upon the lips and hearts
Red scarves wrap up warm each pilgrim
Red banners wrap up well the stars

Riise Baros Cisse Sami
Rafa’s Lads take to the field
The burning […]