Poems by Alan McKean
- What, me ref?
- The man who kicks the ball
- I weep for football
- Team Sheet
- Georgie
- P45
- Hope
- Dropsy
- Rules
- Untitled
- Away goal
- And so it begins
- up for t’cup
- The Trench (haiku)
- Job done
- Heroes
- Chip paper
- Return
- Forget-me-not
- Surprise
- Per person per week
- Communion
- Kick off
- Half time
- Migration
- Wiggin
- Th’owd Mon
- Ah well
- Short term memory
- Gift of the Gub
- Millions
- 31st January
- Kickabout
- Setting Sun
- Game haiku 10
- game haiku 11
- game haiku 14
- Bragging rights
- England expects
- 3 Stooges
- The Yellow Card Song
- Pavane
- Strong man
- Homeward bound
- Haiku haiku
- Gooooooaaaaallllllll
- Goooaalll 2
- Whew
- Isla’s dream
- My first kit
- 2 Goals for Fabrice
- Bermuda Triangle
- Meet me at the turnstile
- Contract
- By pass
- Cliche
- Finally
- Speedy
- Know All
- Wantaway Tevez Tanka
- Parting Gift
- Roller Coaster
- Hope
- Mike Doyle
- Our Game (haiku format)
- Blow the whistle Mr Webb
- Empty Tracksuit
- Transfer Window
- Sleeping Lion
- Happy Wanderer
- Squeaky Bum Tanka
- Wantaway
- Mr Allison
- Running the line
- Top of The Tower
- Question (haiku)
- Viva Espagne (haiku)
- Leaving on a jet plane (tanka)
- Who’d be a goalie?
- Half Time Tanka
- It was 44 years ago – move on
- Happy Birthday Football Poets
- Golden Mile (quick haiku)
- Kev’s Tanka
- Relegation Blues
- We dared to dream
- Match Report
- Surprise Tanka
- Icon
- False Dawn
- We dare to dream
- Empty seat
- Hard day at the office
- Pratfall (quick tanka)
- Thug
- Gentleman
- Turf Moor Tanka
- Relegation Blues
- Don’t kiss the badge
- Pennine Heartache
- The obscenity of numbers
- Respect (quick tanka)
- Boxing Day game (Tune – God rest ye )
- Aliens at The Reebok
- Warm Glow
- Tigers
- Art Deco
- Tomorrows Millionaires
- On a field of green
- In the trenches
- Yob
- Coin
- Thin Ice at the Reebok
- Eastern Promise
- Lemons at half time
- Pavane (Season’s end)
- Rochdale
- Where the hell are you?
- Farce in the rain
- Saviour
- 6258
- The man in the middle
- Manager
- Downfall
- Television
- Autumn Leaf
- Goal
- Battered, bruised and Bolton
- Bolton – up and running
- Wee boy
- Result
- The boys are back
- Untitled
- Evolution
- Alan Ball tanka
- Bolton v Reading, April 07
- Cup 07
- Red Tide
- A Good Game (but it failed to break out)
- McClaren’s Tanka
- So that’s the cup then.
- January Sales
- Lonely Road
- Dollar Bill (Senryu)
- Curse (Revision)
- Battered and bruised
- Aliens
- Hero
- Envelope (a quick haiku)
- Heart and Soul
- Crewe V Huddersfield 2/9/06
- 2:59
- Accy’s Back
- John Willie, Referee
- New Season
- Diving Board
- The Look (Haiku)
- I don’t care about Rooney’s foot
- World Cup – Preliminary Round
- Rooney’s Foot
- Middlesborough Farewell
- Joust
- Knife Edge
- Accrington Stanley
- Play Offs
- The Dein Supremacy
- Knife Edge
- Elephant Tanka
- Division 2
- Oscar
- Derby Game
- Broken dream
- Bottom
- Riddle
- National Coach
- In the stands
- Out
- 8.8.3
- Upside down cake
- Our cat for England
- Called Off
- The Ballad of Billy No Mates
- Responsive thanks
- Fizz in Heaven
- Wall of Sound
- Wizard of the worldly game
- On the Road
- Magician
- Reputations
- Canvas
- Dances with Dolphins
- Muddy Shoes
- Turkish Delight
- Wigan Wonderland
- Everton’s European Holiday
- Continuing Dream
- Final Whistle
- Premier Dust
- First Steps
- Lattice
- Rooney
- Generations
- Annie’s Tanka 695
- Manager’s Bingo
- Not Alone
- Pick me Sir
- Newcomers (Revised)
- Magic Carpet
- Egos in Boots
- Before the Storm
- Wee Gordie
- Regi in Asiam
- New Friends
- Sam Squared
- Manx Holiday
- Gossip
- Pre Season
- Team Colours
- Change of mind
- Greed
- I Believe
- Remaining Constant
- Legend
- Needs
- One Small Day
- Phil Brown
- List
- Dying to go to the match
- Spitting Distance
- Manchester Steel
- Jumping the gun
- United Nations – Bolton Branch (Le pie and le pint)
- Bill Reece, where are you now?
- Fallen Angel
- Triple Glazing Tanka
- The Power of Three
- Early Retirement
- Gettin Caught
- Win
- Glittering Prize
- Help Me
- Payrise
- 56 Seconds
- Nobody was watching the cricket anyway
- Echoes
- May
- After the dust
- Cull
- Foreign Parts
- Seven Tears
- Relegation Blues
- Innocents Abroad ?
- Liverpool v Juventus
- Adoptive Poetry
- Edgeley Whisper
- Doctor Football
- Seconds out – Round 1
- Death of a Goalkeeper
- The Bolton Wanderers European Lovesick Blues
- Distinction
- Tanka lot Diouf
- It’s easy from the stands
- Dilemma
- C’mon Ref
- Cup of Blues
- Stevie Gerrard
- Cruz Control
- Thunder in the Hills
- Earning Respect
- Don’t Let Him Near a Microphone
- Team Mate
- I’m Still Here
- The Bolton Wanderers Turned Corner Haiku Shuffle
- B-ang
- A Cold night in January
- Valley of the Damned
- Next Year
- Bolton v Arsenal 15/1/05
- We Beat Arsenal
- Liverpool v Man U 15/1/05
- Football
- FAC3
- Christmas 2004
- Called Off
- Fans
- Double edged sword
- Jigsaw
- Beach Football
- Half Way
- 13th Bolton Volunteer Freefall Parachute Display Team
- Help! – a pre-Christmas plea
- T’Pool in Europe
- The Boxing Day Game
- Donkeys in a Stable
- Superwhites
- United Colours of Football
- Bolton and Villa 13/11/04
- Giggles in Heaven
- Cash Flow
- United City
- Big John
- End
- Burnley v Derby 22/10/04
- Mr Eight
- The Foot Soldiers
- Red²
- A Star is born
- Son of The Mersey
- Can I have my money back?
- Blank Canvas
- What, Me Ref?
- Floodlight
- Stumble?
- The Academy
- Time Added
- Cup Cynic
- Man United v Lyon 15/9/04
- The ‘Pool and Monaco 15/4/04
- Shirt
- Beslan 2
- Telephone Numbers
- Bobby Robson
- Nothing Personal
- Liverpool 29th August 2004
- Pavane
- United Nations
- Swallowed a Wasp
- Office Sweep
- Hillsborough Roses
- First Game
- Charlton 14/8/04
- Reebok Dream
- Ranieri
- VFM
- Return of the King
- Boundary Park – Early 1970’s
- Football Mum
- But I scored dad
- Payment by Results
- Contrition
- Allow me my dream
- Badge
- True Supporter
- Tea Lady
- Just kick the bloody thing
- The Red Rec
- Long Ago
- Lift and Shift
- Tickets
- Twin Strikers
- Maine Road – Late 1950’s
- Charlton – The opening Game
- Pre Season
- The Groundsman
- Spelling Test
- All Change
- Summer Football
- Mr Lofthouse
- Game
- What do they do in SUmmer
- Theatre of Dreams?
- The Beautiful Game
- Goal
- End of Season
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27th January 2020 at 7:10 pm
The website is actually called Goal Nets and Stanchions.
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13th January 2020 at 4:27 pm
Please insert after line 15 “Where life was hard and occasionally brutal”
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10th January 2020 at 3:19 pm
I meant to write 4th round. Oops !
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23rd December 2019 at 3:07 pm
I loved all Mishi’s poems!
His passion shone through so brightly.
Every club needs a Mishi.
God Rest His Soul.
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21st December 2019 at 10:24 am
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Welcome to Football Poets Tony. More please! Keep on.
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10th December 2019 at 11:47 pm
Hi Denys, it’s great to have another Toffee posting on Footy Poets. I haven’t contributed for some time, but if you click my name you’ll find some Everton poems going back several years.
Yes, now we’re all made up about the Chelsea result. And the return of the team spirit. And the two strikers formation.
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21st November 2019 at 10:11 am
Thank you Al and Welcome to Football Poets..
Too often in the shadow and wake of Hillsborough, Bradford and Heysel, your powerful and emotive lines remind us of a tragic day when 66 died and many more were injured at Ibrox .
RIP
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4th November 2019 at 9:51 am
great three lines Alex…table football..says it all
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16th October 2019 at 10:50 pm
Kev….. the Rev, of that place that rhymes with Les Fridge!
🙂
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23rd September 2019 at 6:39 pm
Lewis Carroll or Andy Carroll?
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