Poems tagged ‘Tottenham’
Manchester City beaten
At long last
City have
Fallen on
Stony ground
Spurs their
Nemesis
Double
Completed
Giants
Reduced
In size
No longer
Supreme
Liverpool
And Chelsea
The title race
Is on,
City shaken
But Spurs
Blood
Pumping again
An FA Cup classic
Everton 5-4 Tottenham
Barely three minutes of a classic
When Sanchez lights the spark
For a nine goal thriller
At an empty Goodison Park
Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison
Start a three goal breakthrough
Sigurdsson from the spot
Lamela makes it 3-2
All this before the break
But there’s still more to see
It’s Sanchez yet again
To level things 3-3
Richarlison makes it a double
Surely Toffees are on the up?
Son’s cross nodded by Kane
Wow! The magic of the FA Cup
Who’ll dig deep for victory?
A gruelling mount to climb
Bernard the hero fires home
Seven minutes into extra time
10 02 21
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Homeless during the Coronavirus pandemic!
Spurs fan Stu’s from the army
Rejected by life, dejected
With Covid-19 in full swing
How do rough sleepers stay unaffected?
Stu says Hoddle was the best
Of all that graced the Lane
Then there’s Greavsie and Gazza
His picks off the genius train
“Glenn was just a magician!”
Greaves the ultimate dazzler
“Gazza a pinball wizard”
Read Greaves, Gazza, Glenda
We agree on one thing though
Neville Southall the greatest by far
Shades Clemence, Jennings, Shilton,
Ogrizovic and Grobbelaar
Celtic Bhoy gets my programme
Scribbled in awesome graffiti
I can always tap Martin for another
Signed by Wee Jay Beatty
04 05 20
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Spurs served for supper
Liverpool 2-1 Spurs
It was Harry Kane who got things moving
Not even a minute on the clock
Quite a super little headed number
To put the Reds in the dock
With Lloris out for the year
Poch throws in the deputy instead
Gazzaniga defies again and again
Sending Spurs in a goal ahead
Hendo squares at the start of the second
Then comes a penalty
Mohamed Salah leaves it till the end
For yet another late victory
27 10 19
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© emdad rahman
Mass Exodus In North London…Shortly?
If able, Kane might wish to seek pastures anew
After Tottenham gert mullered last night seven – two
and to make the dilemma perverse,
For those should I stay or should I go stars at Spurs,
A former Gooner at the fore…instrumental in turning the screw.
Peace.
Back in time down White Hart Lane
As a child I drew crowds; row upon row,
fifteen thousand little circles for the fans,
some high in the stands, some arrayed on the Shelf
cradled by that tight encircling wall
(I’m capturing White Hart Lane
at the start of the Hunter Davies years)
the groundlings penned behind a white perimeter fence,
watching Bobby Smith, Maurice Norman, Greavsie and Cliff Jones.
Now look up, see what Archibald Leitch has designed,
Like the gondola on a Zeppelin, a long white press-box
Above it a clock
And on that a ball
Then a cock
Then a sky,
No whiter than a Tottenham Hotspur shirt
I tried to go back in the Nineties; the old East Stand had gone
Someone was banging an anti-semitic drum
(ironically I suppose)
Not sure I like this, to be frank.
Maybe this is Spurs’ way of getting their masochism in first
“Always equalise before the opposition score”
and I can’t help thinking
If Sigmund Freud ever wandered up the Seven Sisters Road
From Hampstead
He’d have a field day
But the Spurs go marching on, they do
To a new home and a new Lane
So there’s my prosaic bit of doggerel
(Hang on to the ball for me, and don’t forget the cockerel)
Kepa the leper
an act of dissent
meant
disbarment
to the bench
while the stench
of mutiny
lingered
Sarri fingered
as dead man walking
meanwhile Kepa?
treated
like a leper
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25th April 2024
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Latest Comments
29th April 2024 at 2:47 pm
Hi Denys,
Yes Richard Williams you’re a brilliant wordsmith, my friend. When I first saw your football poetry I thought it was the superb Guardian sports and music writer. I once had the honour of sitting next to Richard Williams while at the Independent on the sports desk. He writes about music and sport with immense knowledge and authority. I’ve read a couple of Richard’s books recently. Great writer rather like you Richard Williams the Pompey fan. Congratulations on promotion.
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28th April 2024 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Denys. Yes your replay poem was superb.
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26th April 2024 at 4:46 pm
Nice work, Joe. You were quick off the mark with that! Good one from Richard Williams too I see.
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25th April 2024 at 7:33 pm
Hi Denys,
Thanks mate. I’ll do it now.
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25th April 2024 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Joe,
you might like to write a poem yourself on the same subject…
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23rd April 2024 at 4:03 pm
Hi Denys
With you all the way on the abolition of FA Cup replays. What are they doing to the game?
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23rd April 2024 at 3:59 pm
Hi Crispin,
Yes sorry mate. Villa are still in Europe. Mistake rectified.
Cheers
Joe
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20th April 2024 at 12:04 pm
Hi Joe
Shouldn’t your title read your poem Farewell Europe England to everyone exccept Aston Villa ?
I know you mention them in your poem , but I do feel sorry for Villa re the national press .
Largely ignored. the hype was was all about Man City & Arsenal with a bit of a nod to the Hammers..but hardly a mention of Villa..
So well done to them
C
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19th March 2024 at 8:00 am
Hi Crispin. Chris Sutton on the radio has gone for a Chelsea v Coventry final. As we know anything can happen in the Cup, and I reckon we can go to the final.
We’re still in with a chance of the play offs too, so lots to go for.
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19th March 2024 at 7:41 am
Hey Kev
Let the masses drool over their odds on City v Unted Final, but who knows how pressure can hit.
Cov and Chels will be rightly labelled as having no chance..but hey …stranger things have happened..
so Chelsea v Coventry…that’s the Final for us!
Best
C
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