Football Poets

All the way to Wembley
From the cauldron that is Rome
A growing faith that dares to hope
Is football coming home?

Der “Golden Bomber”
From whose graceful crop
Came the rich harvest
Of goals
The yellow fire
Illuminated with
Dreams of glory
Outshining the noise
From the turbulent terrace,
And now as graceful in def […]

Finnish fans chanting
“Christian”, Danes answering
With love “Eriksen”.

I have stood upon near empty terraces
Beneath sunshine
Dodging rain
Caught betwixt nets of past dreams
And their long refrains
Oh, those long-gone games
Between whose goal posts
My days gavel memory and […]

No more the raised eyebrow
The gestures along the touchline
The Corleone growls of despair
And now the sands of Crosby silent
Beneath the gaze of the Gormley statues
More permanent than contracts,
The toffee […]

Life is like football

We get kicked around

Sometimes we’re up

Sometimes we’re down

Some days we win

Some days we lose

We often see red

We all get the blues

But what ‘ere the resul […]

Give us this day our daily red
Our football lives is how we’re bred
The power and the glory of Ian St John
And Liverpool greats now sadly gone
Give us Bill Shankly and Uncle Bob
Who loved our club and did […]

Let’s get real
It’s not that Liverpool
Failed to deliver on passes
It’s all down to the fact
Klopp is wearing new glasses!

A word for Frank Worthington, memorable goals
Elvis in footie boots pure Rock & Roll
A maverick magician with the swag of the street
Got the terrace all thumping and up off its feet
Match of the Day Bolton […]

Rose Reilly remains
Lone Scottish world cup winner
Pride of Italy.

If Jesus returns
To Liverpool we then move
St John inside left.

I think of you
This same day that comes round
Each year
As the passage of time
Between us
Lengthens
Until by grace
We meet again

The Reds win or lose
Are bond between
Father and Daughter
I […]

Some hearts are scrawled on walls in chalk
Splayed from the incessant hiss of graffiti mischief
Deliciously illicitly scribbled
Tagged and snagged
With initials and street sentiment
Others are carved […]

We fall in love with football
Almost unconsciously
The exact moment like birth not remembered
Perhaps fragments of infancy posited
Alongside childhood dreams
And growing pains

The sweet confusions […]

When football is not quite the Beautiful Game
It’s flowing locks locked down and cramped
Messed up in clumsy tackles and mistimed passes
And our hearts choked in pandemic pandemonium
Glued to tellys and […]

A windswept beach and the Gormley statues
The footprints of Ancelotti across the Crosby sands
And now Marine Fc in that self same corner of the world
A club named after the local pub
Enjoy the magic of the […]

As a youngster falling in love with football
And all things Liverpool Fc
I watched Colin Bell in his pomp for City
A blur of blonde brilliance
Bright shining in light blue
His fireworks lit up Maine Road […]