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Poems tagged ‘World Cup 2018’

World Cup day 10

Lukaku and Hazard at the double
Belgium 5-2 Tunisia

Lukaku joins Ronaldo
In the race for the Golden Boot
Romelu does have an ace
It’s Hazard playing the flute

As the Belgians rout Tunisia
Both stars each wa brace
Dylan Bronn and Wahbi Khazri score
Tunisia sink with no trace

Eight goals in two games
Each Red Devil a star
Batshuayi makes it 5
The highest score game so far

23 06 18

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South Korea 1-2 Mexico

Carlos Vela was in mourning
His Grandad had cheered El Tri
Thereafter he’d left this mortal plain
After the win against Germany

Javier Hernandez with a milestone
Reaching fifty not out
Beating Jo Hyeon-woo at the near post
To hand the Taegeuk a knockout

Son in turn hammers a worldie
Football can be so mean
This puts El Tri on the verge
Of the World Cup last 16

23 06 18

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Kroos control as Germany fight back
Germany 2-1 Sweden

“Alles klar” proclaimed the Hoff
Toivonen caught them off guard
Until Reuss stepped it up
And Boateng got a red card

A last minute stunner it is then
Amidst the stadium din
Tony launches his Kroos missile
For a dramatic last gasp win

Thoughts for poor Jimmy Durmaz
Questioned for his right to live
For the foul that led to the win
You people need some perspective

23 06 18

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Interesting or What?

A sigh of deep relief
Released on Copacabana Beach
Fills the air as Nay Ma swoops to score
Yet yer man was the proverbial mile off-side
As camera angles on the half-way line
Clearly show yet are blatantly ignored.

An earlier tantrum by the whining star
Earn him a well deserved yellow card
For shall we say a bit of a hissy fit?
Add to that his penalty shout VAR turned down
When he self wrestled in slo-mo to the ground
Made the cynic in me think…should such a hair-cut even still be on the pitch?

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On Brazil Switzerland & Nigeria haiku -WC Day 9

Brazil 2-0 Costa Rica

play-acting aside
just a glimpse of this Brazil
In those six minutes

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Serbia 1-2 Switzerland

late Shaqiri touch
Squeezes under Stojkovic
Swiss roll sweetly on

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Nigeria 2-0 Iceland

Musa repays faith
Nigeria are transformed
Messi lies in wait

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Serbia v Switzerland

Cuckoo about to coo for time
Shaqiri sprints towards the line
With deft precision strikes a blinding goal
It’s two-one on the night
On this cutting edge performance…one just might
Clock the fact The Swiss are deffo…on a roll.

A blatant bout of Kane-like WWF
Completely ignored by the ref
Cost The Serbs a chance to make one-two
Another Very Average Referee
Chose to look bemused and still not see
If the chaps with all the cameras…might have had a better view?

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World Cup day 9

Coutinho and Neymar leave it late
Brazil 2-0 Costa Rica

In Phil Coutinho
Seleção Brasileira have an ace
The Barcelona playmaker
Runs the hard race

Costa Rica set up well
Douglas Costa came in flying
They’d shed Brazilian skin
Even had Neymar crying

And so it looked like the favourites
Had run out of breath
But Coutiinho and Neymar
Swooped to seal it at the death

Magic Musa at the double
Nigeria 2-0 Iceland

Close control and a tidy finish
In my book he’s a maestro
Exquisite touch and deft of pace
What if Musa was Latino

Gylfi Sigurdsson fluffs a penalty
Iceland never in the race
Ahmed Musa for Nigeria
With a magic second half brace

The Super Eagles super win
Leaves second spot to grab
Both teams can still do it
Even the Argies still have a stab

The Eagle has landed
Serbia 1-2 Switzerland

Mitrovic pounced
Xhaka’s howitzer was regal
The Swiss are made from sterner stuff
Behold the Albanian eagle

With the clock ticking
They looked to share the cake
But Shaqiri’s late stunner
Leaves Serbia with heartache

Kaliningrad erupts
Raw emotion in the ground
Rossocrociati in the driving seat
To reach the second round

22 06 18

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Heat haiku

Nigeria/Iceland
equatorial/polar
clash of latitudes

Who will win today?
Volvograd thirty degrees
Scandies will struggle

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Beards Snails & Stars haiku -WC Day 8

things are hotting up
still the ‘fave-rites’* struggle with
beards snails and stars

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Denmark 1-1 Australia

Jedinak spot on
striking pens like stroking beards
Socceroos hold Danes

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France 1-0 Peru

Bleus advance like snails
with their huge army of fans
bold Peru are gone

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Argentina 0-3 Croatia

Croats light the night
Rakitic their shooting star
Argies lost in space

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WC2018 Day 8 – haiku

a dodgy keeper
giving us all the willies
Caballeroooooooh-no!

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Mbappe taps home
Les Blues looking cohesive
France advance

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    VAR

VAR sees the smoking gun –
the sheriffs sitting in their judicious techno-box
sometimes
call for instant justice
and sometimes
turn a blind eye

the players have suddenly become charades experts
as pestering as ever, of the disarmed referee;
the tv technicians are loving it – re-run after re-run, keeps them busy
while the punters are just dizzy
from not knowing when, the whistle might blow
and we re-trace our steps
back to the gallows

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World Cup day 8

VAR to the rescue
Denmark 1-1 Australia

Australia are still in it
With Jedinak so trusty
Securing the first point
Against the Danes in Group C

Eriksen with a stunner
Cancelled by the Aussie penalty
Yussuf Poulsen’s handball
Thanks video assistant referee

Aaron Mooy went close
Sisto almost with a goal
France play next
As Age Hareide’s side take pole
 
21 06 18

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Les Bleus reach last sixteen
France 1-0 Peru

If France have a blazing weapon
It’s Mbappé’s youthful flame
It was left to the young star
To decide an absorbing game

Les Bleus are the third team
To clinch a spot in the last sixteen
Los Incas could’ve shocked
Had Gareca’s strikers been more keen

So France’s youngest World Cup scorer
Is a mere nineteen years old
Tapping in a Paul Pogba pass
To think things stone dead cold

21 06 18

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Argentina on the brink
Argentina 0-0 Croatia

With Ronnie on four goals
Would Messi start to shine?
Already playing catch up
We’re assured it’ll all be fine

A clanger from Caballero
Ante Rebic with a super volley
Modric hammers in a blinder
You can’t just scapegoat Willy

And as the seconds ticked away
Rakitic applied the handcuff
Now even a win against Nigeria
May not be quite enough

21 06 18

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WC2018 Day 7 – haiku

big boys out in force
Ronaldo, Suarez, Costa
who else of course

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one-nil common score
Morocco and Saudi out
alas already

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somersault throw-in
we all wanted to see it
aborted desires

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Gareth jog amiss
Southgate restrained by shoulder
no more punching air

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