• Chelsea New Money Vegetables
    Celery can travel with some celerity, But would the salariat prefer celeriac?
  • New £20 note and price of a footie ticket haiku
    From Elgar to Smith, From Art to economist – Not quite the ticket.
  • The Copperfields are turned to Gold
    It wasn’t Gerry Hitchens, But rather Charles Dickens, (The top-hatted man, A Gillingham fan) Whose celebrated character, The impecunious Micawber, When discoursing wide on rickets, And the price of football tickets, Formed the following apothegm, That holds good now as then: “Annual income, £20, Annual expenditure, £20 and sixpence, Result, misery; Annual income, £20, Annual […]
  • Jerusalem
    It does seem crowded doesn’t it? When you’re cheek by jowl at rush hour, Or stuck in a monotonous motorway jam, With an endless stream of men In different coloured football shirts Leaving their Saturday carbon boot print All over England’s green and pleasant land. But up here in the Dales, it’s different, Walking past […]
  • Atmosphere
    Atmosphere is Four floodlights beaming in a moonlit sky, With a singing, chanting crowd (That is divided in its loyalty. There is no homogeneity, Away fans welcome, Cheap and with a view.) Enmity on the pitch helps the sound Swell, with a consequent movement of police And with a consequent reassertion of peace, Until a […]