Quiet as a mouse, ordinary football fan, custodian for the Football Poets website
Poems by Clik The Mouse
- dream machine engages
- Bojo
- Bury FC RIP
- In off the Framework
- Moonwalkers FC
- Strawberries and dream / different strokes
- LGBTQIA+ 2019
- Smilestone
- Boss goss
- gone too soon
- A win on the rim (of Europe)
- Un-wanted hat-trick
- Glory be!
- wee Salty
- CFC, AFC, LFC, THFC
- Game of Beauty
- Mission Impossible – “with hope in your hearts!”
- To bawl, or not to bawl?
- Sala salute
- 97 souls, NYC
- Tommy Smith RIP
- Let rip
- Kepa the leper
- Gordon Banks R.I.P.
- New boots, old body
- august August haiku
- red or blue?
- Deadline Day Aug 2018
- 19/05/2018: A Hat-trick of Harry’s!
- Painting a poetic purview?
- Progeny FC
- stinger
- Gigi loves olives but not Oliver! (Bedlam at the Bernabau)
- Ray Wilkins RIP
- Pun ditto
- Anto Neo
- Bad Homework
- Blank.
- It’s a generational thing
- More tomorrows please!
- Nonpareil
- Nortei Nortey
- Fantasy Football – get in!
- The Greatest
- Still dreaming / How on earth?
- Sold a dummy
- Uprising
- CTE
- Word of the day
- King Oz
- Tea nagger
- A Dublin moment
- Don Howe R.I.P.
- Merry Xmas 2015
- The Truce traduced
- Pray for Paris
- Dichotomy
- Destination
- Howard Kendall RIP
- Transfer Deadline day
- For Matt
- Paddy
- survival battle
- not so, Shanks
- Valley prayed 11.05.85
- Tide’s out
- Hillsborough, 26 years later
- Sardines & exotics – goal for the shoal
- out, ouch
- Jonas G returns
- Talisman
- Merry Xmas 2014
- sim yule elation
- Wayne Wordsworth
- Bees haiku
- What you mean to me
- Ali-like
- Jumpers from goalposts
- not anonymous, when you’re eponymous!
- Breaking News from Huddersfield!
- Lord Attenborough CBE, RIP
- JAG, R.I.P.
- Seminal simile season
- A century ago
- If only
- Each to their own
- The Great Escape
- Keano steamo!
- Blog or blag
- Madiba Utd
- A somewhat clearer perspective, not
- Penalty punishes poet
- Only a few games into the season…
- Poetry is….
- dib dib diver
- Working offsite
- Spectrum
- No loyalty
- Did We Really Just Witness That?!?
- The team in strypes
- World Poetry Day
- Escapologist
- No clean sheets here
- Why bother having them?
- Transfer widow
- Merry Christmas, 2012
- Unbelievable tekkers!!!!!
- ‘Arry dumped
- Getting used to it!
- Drogba: out on a high
- The way it feels / Cheshire Cat
- !!!!! CL haiku !!!!
- The agonising wait….
- #sogladimnotaUtdfan!
- GLT – again!
- Dream on!
- Celebrating (and ready and waiting!)
- Put so eloquently / so pleased to hear
- Half way there!
- Tie-tannic
- Abandoned
- super stission
- Wall pass
- A Prayer for Fabrice
- Draw distraction
- Roberto glee Matteo
- In the presence of greatness
- Apologies for outage
- The Handshake That Never Was
- Revolving doors
- Stampede
- Semiotic
- If only …
- Christmas Day Truce, 1914
- Merry Christmas, 2011
- Socrates R.I.P.
- Jumpers 4 Goalposts 0
- Footballing days of the week
- Right back nomenclature
- THE Return
- ‘Sepp tick’ vote
- In praise of President O’Bama’s positivity
- The dreaded ‘R’ word
- Royal Blue
- og ug
- tying the knot haiku
- United in grief
- 96 haiku
- Emotional rollercoaster
- Talk about letting down your team
- The toughest job in football?
- I don’t want to …..
- Sky humble pie
- Cacti fans
- Merry Christmas, 2010
- 12 Days of Christmas
- The clarity of parity?
- Wayne’s Whirled
- For Eoin Howe
- An ode to the muse
- Immunity Shield
- Tree of friendship and respect
- Ever play this game?
- Celebr8
- Just the who of us
- Wordsmirth – tackling writer’s block
- From nowhere
- ode to oh no
- pulling the fans in
- pilfering poet
- can or cant?
- 1914, the game of truce
- Christmas 2009
- Three Lamps
- TBL
- nil tilled
- the Hand of Hurt
- Brinksmanship…
- Dreams
- Robert Enke R.I.P.
- Archie Baird RIP
- weekend highlights
- Naughty, Bill
- Olé o nay
- Sin miedo
- mixed metascores
- Roll the credits
- instructing the OB crew
- even to this day …
- pack up your troubles
- nags and nagging doubts
- oh to win again
- stunning sunset
- velocipede
- there’s a Seagull somewhere
- forget football?
- Is this a poem?
- The Apprentice Poet
- Writer’s block tackle
- 2 chances
- Guess who?
- A respected journalist asked …
- 96 lost
- Good Kop, bad cop
- Empty seats – the 96 legacy
- We’re different – because we do, but in general …
- Beware the Ides of March
- Up there with the best of them (not)
- Foolish
- Not Neighbours
- Football fans have different priorities
- Quantum leap
- bad form
- The Commons touch
- Half time public exposé
- Merry Christmas, 2008
- Emmanuel & the unmannerly
- Prem jem
- Going Green?
- 5-a-low
- Bring back Milton
- 5-a-high
- Handcuffs wrong
- Kick It Out
- We want Change!
- Not quite Hastings
- Ex Officio
- Park the bus
- Jimmy Sirrel, R.I.P.
- The time is nigh!
- Missquotes
- Yet another Saturday with no football
- Big filip!
- Lack of atmosphere
- Gutted
- the tension’s killing me!
- It always happens when you’re not at your pc!
- Tommy Burns, R.I.P.
- We are not a muso!
- careful underfoot
- Daylight robbery (under floodlights)
- 96 tears
- Gran, Gnash ’n all
- Sound bites
- Ist ein bull? Nein.
- Perspective
- Unto the world
- Call My Bluff
- Knight-hood-winked
- shock horror
- Impressive – says I
- keepy up – and not just for appearances sake
- 50 years on …
- Irish Italian footballing lexicon
- Munich, Feb 6th 1958
- Munich anniversary and deaths on the day
- good luck Havant!
- Chelsea reach another Carling Cup final
- show me the way to win at home
- Is this the way it’s going?
- Bury it!
- Phil O’Donnell, 1972 – 2007
- Happy New Year 2008
- Happy Christmas 2007
- Milestone
- Stan stunted
- Mark Clattenburg’s Merseyside nightmare
- True Gods and bettering myself
- Oh how fickle are we? ;-)
- Crossing the rubicon
- Apology not required
- Ian Porterfield, R.I.P.
- Agony and ecstasy
- Pavarotti, R.I.P.
- There is no …
- friendly ire
- My passion
- Derby Twice
- The legerdemain of laces
- Before the season starts
- Regicide
- It could all hinge on one dodgy decision …
- A victory please, but better still …
- For Madeleine and her family
- heartbreak haiku
- Ball of fun
- élan Hansen
- My two grans could’ve done better (Anne ‘n Dora)
- Et tu
- Celery – sticks of dynamite?
- Timelord
- Every team has one
- Ossie remembered
- On excluding black bosses…
- About your kit …
- D.I.Y.
- First Time Remembered
- That’s all you ever think about …
- Season’s Greetings 2006
- Fifteen minutes of fame, per game (Supersub)
- HIV FC
- To George, with love
- Ferenc Puskas R.I.P.
- Potted dreams
- Not for neophobiacs – or is it?
- Two years on, walk on
- Inspiration (albeit poppycock)
- Some1
- Zokora zonked
- The Redgrove Shuttle
- Dylanesque
- Zeus alors!
- What is this football poetry website?
- Pre-season – so many questions
- One for Lynne Truss
- Hand of God
- If I was …
- John Lyall, R.I.P.
- Opening account haiku
- Decay
- It’s all lost on me!
- The mind buggles
- Crying into my beer
- Python meat
- Peter Osgood, R.I.P.
- But is it art?
- England slam British manager
- Ron Greenwood R.I.P.
- Sven’s it all going to end?
- robbin’ Robben with rules
- Traffic standstill
- FA Cup 3rd Round, 2006
- This could be our year
- Homage
- Season’s Greetings
- Thomas the tank Engine & the Essien Express
- Squished eggs
- Positive Ability
- Doughty Tomass’s no more
- Kean-o, there’s only none Kean-o
- Remembrance Day 2005
- Unpleasant type
- From Rosa Parks to football parks
- Arsenal’s NEW all time top scorer
- Sweep
- finger of fun
- Return of the saviours
- Stein for Brazil?
- Millwall v Iran : cancelled, post 7/7
- blasted, 7/7
- Your story. Our story.
- Five ring flag
- Tackling the tour (and Cancer)
- Zola : A legend retires
- Rolling pin reception (fortunately the wife likes tennis)
- Unfortunate soubriquet
- What the ….
- Thighs of Thunder Haiku
- Gorged …..
- Champions League Immortals
- Swatty Motty
- FA Cup final illogical footprint
- Down, in the country
- Dogfight III & IV
- Dogfight I & II
- It Ain’t Over, Until …..
- Labouring the point?
- For Sale
- old codgers FC
- God’s goalkeeper
- Hot legs
- Loony Toons
- This ol’ man is no football curmudgeon
- Wayne – anger management – never the twain?
- Howlers
- Owed to Football
- Football’s most wanted
- Chelsea 4 Barcelona 2
- Hallucinations and beetroot faces
- Done Deal Haiku?
- Football For Hope
- St Valentine’s Day Massacre
- Beano – there’s only none Beano
- Get the message?
- Real Survival
- Last night, in the old house
- Nature’s forces of good and evil
- Jump Britain
- The goal that wasn’t (beggars belief)
- A (c)rhyme for Christmas
- Xmas : knitted goalposts
- Transfer Talk
- Out of respect
- The big C
- Ceasefire, Christmas 1914 Haiku
- points deducted : the announcement
- It’s just like watching Braz…. well, maybe not
- The perfect poet (as footballer)
- Objectives & Goals
- In tune
- History Repeats Itself
- Wholly Trinity
- Justice for Junichi
- Terrain of terror transposed
- Emlyn Hughes, Crazy Horse
- York sack Brass after poor start
- Pickled poems
- Bushwhacker
- Crossing the Threshold of Hope as we take to the pitch
- two and twenty flak nerds baked in a tie
- Soupgate
- John Peel, RIP
- Bill Nick, RIP
- Rime not rhyme
- hunting mercilessly for points
- Roar emotion
- What Cloughie would have done with this football poem
- Lunchtime stroll …
- Kick him out – apologies are not enough
- El Pibe d’Oro (the child of Gold)
- Aspirations
- Rooney’s Champions League Debut
- Running down the clock
- Brian Clough OBE RIP
- spry sprigs
- Another Larsson Goal at Celtic Park
- Watching poet
- Shocking Reminder
- Franchise Football, 2004
- Right wing / Left wing
- Jesus and football
- Meaning
- Blessing in disguise?
- @ close range
- Time for another ‘Team Effort’?
- Ferdinand
- Danger in the box
- Dreamland to Nightmaresville
- Dream catcher
- Lessons to be learned
- Unattainable Irish Proverb
- Andy Reid, Nottingham Forest & Ireland
- Roy’s Return
- The worst rhyming poem ever?
- They said it could never be done ….
- Irish tv panel’s view of Chelsea’s exit
- o.g. abc
- stay of execution
- Wooden’t make it – failed football dreams
- Chelsea beat Arsenal … finally
- Football Poet’s Nightmare
- Chelsea Z to A (bring back Zola!)
- Spotted in the personal ads
- Events of March 11th 2004
- Tears before bedtime
- Holocaust Day
- whipping boy (undeserved)
- I wanna be
- Samba soccer by the Liffey
- Fruity FA Cup results
- Opposites attract
- The Big Kick off
- Merry Christmas poem
- Fatalistic fan
- For my children
- Swing low – Rugby glee
- Russia 0 Wales 0 – A Regret
- Singing the Blues
- If only verdant, instead of Verdun
- Football Poets team by rote
- smelly atmosphere
- tricky winger wordplay
- Savaged by the referee!
- FA Cup minnows
- new season on it’s way!
- quick quiz
- the curse o’ Andy D’Urso
- eat, drink football
- Premiership Priory
- FA Cup Final 2003 – a personal view
- space : crying into his beer
- space : the final front tier
- Utd & Arsenal, neck and neck 2003
- green fingers : stemming the tide of tortuous tat
- when you just hit that rhythm (a coach’s canon)
- Imagine…
- Losing sleep : BST
- Clik on tour (3) : Football in southern India
- Clik on tour (1) : Edison’s testimonial
- Clik on tour (4) : Missing, inaction
- Clik on tour (5) : Fergie outpecs Becks
- Clik on tour (2) : So close to war (literally)
- Woeful Wanderers, wish for Beowulf
- It’s a fix, if it ain’t 66
- Gael Force Eleven
- Different Game Altogether
- Top Ten Britons
- Take the train
- a pacifist gives thanks … and prays
- The first to know
- black and white
- LETS KICK IT OUT
- Kick it out acrostic (2)
- Keane v McCarthy
- Kick it out acrostic
- watching football : what do you actually see?
- Good Footballers Here
- A cursory ode on hearing the withdrawal of Gerrard and Dyer
- Spike
- Good Footballers Here
- Zola Goala
- Unwinese
- Left back, in the dressing room
- Doobs, not boobs
- Limerick keeper : a hat-trick of limericks
- Limerick keeper limerick
- Minimum one line reference to football
- Keepers ball !
- the ol’ sod
- One Day In Life
- The Burningfan 6
- Assault and Battery
- Patrick the Hat-trick and the light of my life
- Ravanelli
- Fantasy Foolball
- Peter Schmeichel
- Coloured
- Net one, pearl one
- Simply Socker
- Oh go on then, one about Cantona
- Close season / Cave dwellers
- Welcome, Earthlings
- Roy Keane
- Goal(den) Wonder
- EUFA Cup 2001
- Fatneck
- Yorkie
- Famous Singer?
- South erm, soft tease (part 1)
- South erm, soft tease (part2)
- Daveed
- Verse 4 Merse
- Sacha Dispel
- Jimmi
- Men In Black
- Posh Spouse
- Copenhagen
- Demise Of The Dons
- The Impossible Task
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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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19th September 2019 at 4:41 pm
Brilliant Eddie!
with our new website format, we can now all offer suggestions on top of this.
My tuppenceworth:
AE Housman or Peter Houseman?
Spike Milligan or Mike Milligan?
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30th August 2019 at 2:19 pm
I really, really wish I’d thought of that closing line!
Absolute classic!
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2nd August 2019 at 12:01 pm
Wow. That is a fantastic tale John.Thank you. Funny and sad but hysterical. You totally captured the vibe back then.I was too small to see in those huge crowds at the Bridge when i first went to Chelsea on Dec 25 ’57 (Chelsea 7-4 Portsmouth (when Greaves scored 4) but remember …ev’ry week so well …the old Peanut sellers chucking their peanuts to the crowd .And then us chucking our sixpences back .(Tanner a bag) And then stamping on them or chucking back the shells at our mates and the cops too. God Bless Mrs Michella the Crystal Palace peanut seller….and all long gone peasnut sellers.
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28th June 2019 at 3:23 pm
We have one of these shirts Clik and it is beautiful.
Great poem for a boss shirt.
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20th June 2019 at 2:37 pm
Lovely poem Rhys, and That Lone Ship looks a boss book.
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9th May 2019 at 12:59 pm
Great poem Clik – witty and memorable, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.
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9th May 2019 at 12:58 pm
Great poem Sharon, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.
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