• World Cup Haiku 6: The Rainbow
    Soft May-month sunbeams And iridescent rain drops: England’s crock of goals.
  • World Cup Haikus 4 and 5
    Haiku 4: The Past Listen! Sven’s Swan Song: The cadence of misery And futility. (How can we forget his often bizarre substitutions and then the seeming impotence when facing Brazil last time in 2002? Let’s hope he might gamble this time round though that’s not his style he says in today’s Observer.) Haiki 5: The […]
  • World Cup Haikus 2 and 3
    World Cup Haiku 2: The Squad Walcott leaves his cot. We can imagine Lennon. But will Crouch just crouch? World Cup Haiku 3: The Formation The May-mown road sides, Ecological death wish, Just like 4-5-1.
  • World Cup Haiku 1
    Apple blossom falls, Just like England’s World Cup hopes. Another season.
  • Pathetic (in)Fallacy
    Reading in the shade beneath the apple tree, Each branch and bough defined by crisp-cut shadow, (As is each mossy, mouldering gravestone, In the valley of the shadow of death) Searching for a Saturday Zen moment, But pre-occupied by a football game, Swindon versus Brentford, 15 miles away: And in the graveyard I watch the […]