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Poems tagged ‘World Cup 2018’

WC2018 Day 22 – haiku – free!!

World Cup Willie

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018

10/07/2018 14:00 haiku – breaking news!!!

Rescuers win through
Miracle, science or what?
Wild Boar FC free!

Brit divers on team
Thais will now support England
Three Lions and Wild Boars!

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odd-bod?

I’m an expert (or so I’d like to think)
but I look back at pre-tournament predictions
and I’m way off beam

partly that was down to me
not wanting to jinx
my own team

but also
this World Cup has thrown-up
so many googlies

that it could nearly be cricket!
though that’s a kop-out
and leaves me on a sticky wicket….

would I rather be right
and see all results
go to form?

or are we better off
far removed
from the pre-plotted norm?

for isn’t this unpredictability
actually
half the fun of the fayre?

to see teams going for it
when normally
they wouldn’t stand a prayer?

so are we prepared
to take
a pummelling with the odds?

especially when, as an unexpected bonus
it is England who potentially have
one of the World Cup winning squads?!?!?!

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Past-Present

Gacina Bozidar

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018

BELGIUM
“La roja de Martinez”
is what Spain
were once

CROATIA
“Vatreni”
is what HUNGARY
with PusKas were once

ENGLAND
Three Lions is what
Netherlands were once with
Edgar Davids

FRANCE
Les Blues is
what Yugoslavia were once
with Dejan Savicevic Dejo

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WC2018 Day 21 – haiku

World Cup Willie

Monday, July 9th, 2018

ENGERRRRRRRRLAN!!

England 2-0 Sweden; haiku

Harry scores the first
Familiar name on scoresheet
Maguire not Kane tho

Dele Alli heads
Ball nestles in onion bag
A much needed goal

For every goal
Millions of pints go
Flying through the air

In total control
Is this really England?!?
Nation loving it!

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Croatia 2-2 Russia; haiku

Penalty shoot-out
Modric and his merry men
Croatia stun hosts

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Better than World Cup haiku

Cave Divers are go!
International Rescue
For Wild Boar FC

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Wild Boar FC
Need a goal or two –
Not the ball nestling in the net
But short term targets to keep hopes up
As the water rises, knee deep;
“my favourite food”
“not too much homework please”
“don’t forget my birthday”;

Now it’s taking true teamwork
To get everyone out alive
Divers and experts collaborating
While tv reports elaborating
On the plans and attempts so far…

International Rescue for real

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WC2018 Day 20 – haiku

World Cup Willie

Monday, July 9th, 2018

Belgium 2-1 Brazil; haiku

Courtois builds a wall
Brazil breach it too late
De Bruyne stands out

France 2-0 Uruguay; haiku

Cavani missed
Muslera flaps, Griezeman claps
Pogba’s pals go thru

EU haiku

Guaranteed today
European continent
Will supply winner

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World Cup Dream

Paul H Tubb

Monday, July 9th, 2018

I dreamt I won the World Cup,
For the England team.
I didn’t need ten other men,
It was just me, in my dream.

I showed eleven Brazilians
how the game should be played.
I scored three and they scored one,
and history was made.

My name was all over the papers
And all over the TV.
There was a rumour that, Anne Hathaway,
had fallen in Love with Me.

But it ended all too soon you see,
as soon as I woke up,
I found I was in my Bedroom
There wasn’t a World Cup.

But we’re in the Semi Final now,
So It doesn’t bother me.
As Harry Kane, and the other players
Can make this a reality.

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England’s Number One

Denys E. W. Jones

Sunday, July 8th, 2018

He’s not the only Jordan –
There’s also Henderson.
This one’s the lad decked out in green,
He’s England’s Number One.

A reassuring presence,
Between the sticks he stands,
So far no clangers has he dropped,
A most safe pair of hands.

He bawls at his defenders,
When they don’t give him cover,
Just like a hawk he watches them,
More closely than Big Brother.

You may remember Gordon Banks,
Ray Clemence, Pete Shilton,
But in my mind there is no doubt
That Pickford’s Number One.

When not on England duty,
Where does he ply his trade?
At Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Man U
Or some such famous name?

The boy don’t play for none of these,
No, there you are quite wrong.
He earns his corn on Merseyside,
He plays for Everton!

8/7/18
Denys E. W. Jones

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Football’s Coming Home at The Prince Albert

Stuart Butler

Sunday, July 8th, 2018

I like visiting the Albert,
I like the way it commands a crossroads,

Welcoming all cardinal points of the compass,

Just like a traditional inn should,
I particularly like it when the football comes home.

I like visiting the Albert in springtime,
When vases of flowers greet you in the bar,

With vernal fragrance and equinoctial promise,

Stretching into blossoming infinity,
But that’s not as good as when the football comes home.

I like summer drinking in the Albert,
With a pint of Alton’s Pride,

It’s like an infusion of Thomas Hardy,

With every novel you’ve ever read

Returning like a Native,
Or like the football.

I like autumn drinking in the Albert,

When mists and mellow fruitlessness

Entwine themselves around the eaves,

Just like a gothic Woman in White,
Or Jordan Pickford.

I like winter drinking in the Albert,

Sledging down the snow-scaped common,

Then in the bar for mulled ale and wine,

Just like we’re in A Christmas Carol,
But not with the ghost of Sam Allardyce.

I like walking around the Albert,

With a boulevard and a bowling green,

A welcome in the streets,
A chat on the allotments,

It’s like the Orwell pub of his dreams,
But it’s not The Moon Under The Water,
It’s The Prince Albert,
It’s The Football’s Coming Home.

It’s The Football’s Coming Home,
It’s The Prince Albert,
It’s George Orwell’s pub of his dreams.

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Can We Start To Dream?

Crispin Thomas

Sunday, July 8th, 2018

can we start to dream
or are we fooling ourselves…..
why not all the way?

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Sweden 0-2 England

whatever you say
England swept the Swedes apart
with this new belief

just like Duracell
who cares if Raheem can’t score
he just runs and runs

just two steps away
way beyond our widest dreams
could this be our time?

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Russia 2-2 Croatia (4-3 AET)

politics aside
Russian faces in the crowd
show a different side

oh how close they came
always in it til the end
and those cruel pens

Manzukic et al
somehow keep their tired heads
for this spot kick win

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World Cup day 21

Emdad Rahman

Saturday, July 7th, 2018

England are in the semi finals
Sweden 0-2 England

Gareth Southgate joins the ranks
Of Sir Alf and Sir Bobby
For the first time in 28 years
England are in the semi

Red Henderson controlled the flow
Playing to the English choir
England ahead from a set piece
It’s that man Harry Maguire

A hat trick of saves from Pickford
Trippier and Lingard combined
Delle Alli heads in at the far post
Last four sealed, delivered, signed

Croats break Russian hearts
Russia (3) 2-2 (4) Croatia (AET)

It’s the World Cup that keeps giving
Tis the tale of Mother Russia
When Subasic is caught napping
Cheryshev whips in a blinder

Kramaric squares
Vida tightens the rope
Fernandes the boy from Brazil
Gives Mother Russia hope

Not the greatest ever shootout
Fernandes goes to zero
Who will be the difference?
Modric is the nations hero

07 07 18

number7
© emdad rahman

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Gareth Southgate’s Beard

Crispin Thomas

Saturday, July 7th, 2018

he used to be compared sometimes
to Gobbo out of Noddy
he’d stand their all close shaven
his look was never shoddy
it came together suddenly
it altered points of view
a manager type masterstroke
brought facial fuzz to view

the razor went on gard’ning leave
in two thousand fifteen
a tactical adjustment
it burst upon the scene
and though it shocked the media
and some fans found it weird
it suddenly went viral
Gareth Southgate’s beard

it’s trending with his waistcosts
on ev’ry top platform
from Vogue to railways stations
his beardiness performs
on Instagram he’s everywhere
in bars and in cafés
the coolest men among us
adopt his furry ways
it’s grooming at its finest
he combs it sipping tea
he strokes his growth in training
and grooms it endlessly

I’m cool with big moustaches
and whiskers are ok
and even sideburns can look cool
in an Elvis way
from interviews to touchines
he makes a groovy stance
from tip to to toe he’s good to go
and nothing’s left to chance
he’s caused face creams to shudder
Gillette are running scared
beware it’s taking over
Gaereth Southgate’s beard.

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