Football Poets

Banks of England
What athletic dignity
Poured through each finger
And ripped through the sky
The Arc of Triumph
The athletic body pushed through
Impossible angles
And as the man wheeled away
Body flexed in […]

With their legs shot to pieces
And turning to stone
They picked up our dreams
Now they won’t walk alone
From the terrace our passion
Burst forth from each heart
And it fired up our warriors
On that A […]

The gravel voiced pen
Not just of a page but for
All of football time.

A long, long time ago… I can still remember how
His football used to make me smile.
And he knew if he had a chance,
That he could make that terrace dance,
And make the people happy for a while
But September m […]

A Game of Two Halves
Football is our saving grace
90 minutes reliving a childhood long melted into the past
But lingers, for what are we but children
Divisively spiritual and calling on disciples to bear […]

When all seems stocked against you
And the future aye looks bleak
The road at times seems way too long
The mountains sure too steep
Hope ‘gainst hope and pull on boots
Walk on walk on so bold
Play on f […]

Out on the football fields
Williams finds her true home
The record-breaking golden girl
With the world of the ball at her feet
Instrumental play-maker weaving and teasing
Those big game changing […]

Football Poetry
The goals the songs the heartbreaks
Cabbages and kings.

Man of blood
Not impenetrable stone
Who gathered genius
Like fish in a net
Hewn from the same Scottish rock
Of Stein and Shankly
Game changer supreme
Father figure whose beloved sons
Perished in the cruel […]

When I was in high school all those years ago
In English I was taught Keats’ “Ode To A Grecian Urn”
And whilst I loved this bright star’s resilient rebellion
Not one single word other than those in the title d […]

Nat Lofthouse
Bolton Wanderers
Patron saint
Of aerial combat
His tireless lion heart
Pursued lost causes
With the passion of St. Jude
And gave them all a home.