Football poet.
Poems by P Maguire
- Super Billy Kee
- The Leaving of Liverpool
- The Flowers of Liverpool (lest we forget)
- The Gaza Strip
- Alfredo di Stéfano
- Love Restored
- Liverpool Rising
- Make us Dream
- We Go Again
- A Liverpool Love Story (2014)
- Luis Suarez
- Sir Tom Finney
- Eusebio
- Philosophical Football
- Rock & Roll is the New Football
- John Lennon
- Come back Kenny
- The Liverpool Way
- Fine dreams of Heaven (A Liverpool Child)
- The Echoes of Childhood
- The History Boys
- Shakespeare’s Ghost
- Football History (Brazil)
- The Hollow Crowd
- Liverpool Dreams
- I Love Liverpool
- Me and Bobby Moore
- The Late Great Bobby Moore
- Football Sun and Shadow
- The Bard and the Beautiful Game
- The Spirit of Shankly
- JFT96
- SkyDiving Football Poet
- Oh Carroll!
- Bored with Barca
- UCFB: Football is The Business
- A Liverpool Love Poem
- Messi – The Little Maestro
- Comeback Kenny
- Total Football Poetry
- Come Back Kenny
- Mozart in Football Boots
- A Football Poet’s Bootroom
- At Season’s End
- Avram Grant
- “El pequeno pelirrojo de mil pecas lidera de nuevo a su cuadro”
- Use your Head not off your head.
- Within these Walls
- Hillsborough
- Milan – Real Madrid 19/04/89 Minuto di silenzio
- Fernando Torres
- The Wailing Wall of Wenger
- The Parable of the Short Sighted Football Manager
- ‘Highbury’ Haiku
- I Spy Through Wenger’s Eye
- Football and the Fragility of the Heart
- Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
- Fernando Torres
- Football to me
- Ronaldo’s Right Foot
- Accrington Stanley
- So here it is Merry Christmas…
- Football Literacy
- Football Numeracy
- The Scouse Armada
- STAND UP COME OUT
- Hungary’s National Icon
- Liverpool Haiku
- The Ghosts From the Playground
- When It’s Not Our Night
- Even When A Game is Lost, Football Still Goes On…
- Christmas Passed and Presant Yet?
- Playing Football Beneath The Stars
- SEASONS
- The Branding of Jose
- Walking the Line
- I Love Alan Green cos He’s Grumpy!
- “The Name’s Stelling, Jeff Stelling!”
- Not so Grim Grimsby!
- Simon Wiesenthal “Until the Final Whistle”
- When Pele plays football who does he dream he is?
- Sol Soars, and Scores!
- Moyes’ European Blues Delight for Big Sam’s Whites!
- Duncan Edwards
- At The Match
- The Striker
- A Liverpool Gospel
- Edgar Davids
- Jurgen Klinsmann
- John Barnes
- Another Glorious Chapter To the Liverpool Page
- Faith In Liverpool Faith in Football
- Garrincha
- Johann Cruyff
- LEV YASHIN
- Jimmy Greaves
- The Michael Owen Show
- The Predatory Striker
- Rafa Benitez
- You’ve got to be in it to win it!
- Reds v Blues
- Everything a Girl needs to Know about Football…
- ALL VERSED OUT
- A Few of My Favourite Things
- Cisse’s Hair
- The People’s Game
- ZiZou
- Come Back Bobby Moore
- Shankly’s Ghost
- The Ould Anfield Roar
- Come Home Michael Owen
- Peter Crouch
- Ian Rush, He’s Muddy Waters!
- Justice for Anthony Walker
- Liverpool v TNS (13th July 2005)
- Hopes for the Coming Season
- When Saturday Comes
- I am a wave in the mighty red sea
- Going The Match Tomorrow
- Let Common Sense Prevail
- Little Sam (Sammy Lee)
- The Game Today at the Racecourse Ground
- The Constant that is Liverpool Fc
- Liverpool Child
- Anfield
- The Dreams of Istanbul
- Miracles like Kenny
- The Flowers of Liverpool (lest we forget)
- L’Pool’s Adventures in Wonderland
- First steps on the road to Paris
- FAIR GAME
- Liverpool Pie (2)
- In Me Liverpool Home (updated)
- Cinquain anyone?
- 4 Haikus for the Kop
- The Spirit of Football
- Scottish Steel
- Child Dreams Return
- Taking Vows
- I saw 5 Cups
- The Reds are down the pub with Rafa!
- Lerning ter Count Scouse Like
- Liverpool Fc In The Tate
- Merseyside, Milan and Madrid
- At St Peter’s church Woolton (1)
- Champions Of Europe (Again)
- The Spirit of Liverpool Fc
- The Glorious Spirit of Istanbul
- Romantics, Rebels and Redmen
- Reds In Heaven
- The Trotters Sign a Kiss ‘o’ gram
- THE MIGHTY RED SEA
- The plight of the Liverpool Fc Rafa(ugees)
- Kicking My Dreams Around Childhood
- In The Shadows of Childhood
- Hoda Lattaf
- THE MIRACLE OF ISTANBUL
- 50,000 kopites on the road to Istanbul
- “Champions League, We’re ‘avin’ Kebabs”
- Nervous me? Course I am La!
- The Final Leg of the Road to Istanbul
- The Unrequited Love of Football
- The Shankly Gates
- The Liverpool Faithful
- Last Night I Had A Happy Dream
- Let Anfield Remember
- The Angel of Anfield (II)
- Liverpool Dream
- The Undying Love Of The Liverpool Fan
- The Fields of Anfield (2005)
- Footballer or Poet?
- Learn to Walk before you Talk
- The Risin’ O’ The Moon
- On Behalf of Gazza
- High Praise from the Madrid Kid for the Bootle Boy
- Almost at Season’s End
- Sorry Son, but we’re not extending your contract….
- Lord Froddie Scores 2
- The Magnificent 12th Man Of Liverpool Fc
- Shankly’s Ghost
- GLORY GLORY WILLIAM SHANKLY
- We 3 Kings of Liverpool
- The Mighty Spion Kop
- The Pool Of Life II
- LIVERPOOL’S SONS
- 1965 Bill Shankly’s Dream (Liverpool 3 Inter Milan 1)
- God Bless Yer Bill Shankly
- A Song For Liverpool
- Igor Biscan
- Shankly’s Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven
- JUXTAPOSITION
- The Exquisite Power of Dreams
- “Rafa’s Red Tastes Sweeter Than Jose’s Whine”
- Liverpool v Chelsea May 3rd 2005
- Another Great Anfield Night
- Bill Shankly looked at Jose’s coat
- For The Lads of Liverpool Fc
- Miracles at Anfield
- Heart as big as The Kop
- A Thing of Beauty
- A Prayer for Rafa
- Charlton win FA Cup
- The Passion of the Anfield Night
- By the banks of the Red Mersey
- The Red Liverpool Shirt
- The Liverpool Soul
- A Red Dream
- The Anfield Child
- Faith in the Reds
- Forza Anfield
- Grand Reds
- Liverpool Forever
- Mighty Redmen
- Heart as big as Anfield
- Anfield Forever
- Magic at Anfield
- John Arne Riise
- The Rafamation
- The Redmen
- Proud Anfield Men
- Greatness is a Wedding Gown
- Another Great Anfield Knight?
- Children of the Rafalution
- Dortmund 2001
- The RedMen on the road to Istanbul
- Moses is a Kopite
- Liverpool Is My Religion Is Liverpool
- The Red Rafalution
- WE ALL LIVE IN A JAMIE CARRA KOP
- The Eagle’s Landed (On His Head Son!)
- Election Fever Pitch
- Razor Kennedy
- Liverpool Flags Liverpool Scarves
- Football Poetry Map
- Early 70’s
- “Sunk By Dunc – A Deadly Submarine”
- Anfield, Sea Of Red
- The only Liverpool football player to ever receive a knighthood was Matt Busby.
- Some say God, We say Shankly
- 2 Wembley Nightmares
- Trafalgar Square
- The Football and Me
- Moses down by the Red River
- Gabriel at Anfield
- Berlusconi’s Dream
- Another Reds Win In London
- Another Reds Win In London
- Do you know the way to skin Jose?
- Answers for El Kev!
- Xabi Alonso
- Walton Breck Road
- Bobby Moore The Hero
- Rooney’s Childish Antics
- Just One Life
- Djibril Cisse
- Trouble with Fanzines these days is
- The Scars of Bullying
- Football Money and Madness
- PNE LOUD & PROUD
- As the end of the season rolls in
- Continued Kop Canonization of Carra
- The New FootballPoet Imagist
- Thunder of the Kop
- Maradona King of Naples
- Has Rafa Found his Prize?
- Skinning Shadows on the Park
- 3.06 pm
- Premier Movers Shakers and Goal Scorers
- 96 Reds We’ll Never Forget
- Jesus made the bench for Liverpool once
- KJP (Liverpool v Chelsea)
- On the road to Istanbul…
- The Mighty Reds
- Back in the Kop
- In The Kop
- Kenny Dalglish is Elvis Presley
- In Me Liverpool Home
- Liverpool Pie
- Heroes of Turin
- Kim Seol
- A Little History Of Tranmere Rovers Fc (part one)
- Playing The Game
- Michael Owen and the Bernabeu
- Sammy Eto’o
- The Aldo Shuffle
- Raul is Cool but Humey’s Hot!
- The Aldo Shuffle (2)
- Jason McAteer: “The Dynamite Wirralite”
- Rafa’s Red Revival
- Walk On
- Badalona Luis
- zONAL mARKING
- Mark Rankine
- TRANMERE ROVERS FC DREAM TEAM
- Fredi Kanoute
- If I Could Be Anyone
- Steven Taylor
- Remembering Uncle Joe
- Remembering Uncle Joe
- The Immortal Bobby Moore
- The Modern Game
- Coming Home Late
- Just For Fun, Seriously
- David Beckham
- Still Maradona
- King Eric
- A Football Love Affair
- NEW FOOTBALL?
- Yesterday’s Hero
- In Memoria e Amicizia (In Memory and Friendship)
- In Memoria e Amicizia (In Memory and Friendship)
- Non Camminerete Mai Da Solo
- Football Poets up for Adoption
- Price of Tickets
- Same Game Different League
- Igor Biscan
- Rafa Benitez, Get Thee to Deepdale at Once!
- And IGGOOOOOORRRR Scores!
- Delia Smith
- Who Do You Support?
- Henry Hattrick Hero
- Dyer & Bowyer in punch-up
- Well Done Reds
- Remembering
- Stan Ternent – Je t’adore
- Peter Crouch
- Sam Allardyce
- RONALDINHO
- STANLEY MATTHEWS
- “TOSTAO” (Eduardo Goncalves de Andrade)
- Mill Road School – 1970-74
- If you’re first you’re first, if you’re second you’re nothing
- Liverpool through, not through…
- Water and Football
- Signed Sealed Delivered
- Jamie Carragher
- Born a Red
- Jimmy Case
- Eddie Lewis
- Last Night’s Game
- Football, it’s a simple game.
- Sea (sons)
- His boots are made for scoring
- Miracles for Feet
- Strawberry Fields (forever?)
- Burnley v Liverpool (postponed)
- Burnley v Liverpool postponed
- Goals
- New Football
- Sir Bobby Moore
- Bobby Zamora
- Prayer
- Shaun Wright-Phillips
- Metaphor and Metonymy
- They Made The People Happy
- Football Poetry On The National Curriculum
- From the best view
- I Write Your Name
- In My Dreams
- Watching Shankly
- Tales from The Mersey
- Scouse Bouncebackability
- A cold night at Anfield
- Bacup Borough Fc
- Christmas
- David Moyes
- From Tinkerman to Thinkerman
- Bread and Wine
- The 1st Beatle
- Another Great Anfield Night (Liverpool 3 Olympiakos 1)
- Fingerspetzgefuhl!
- Judas
- Baudrillard
- Neil “Gerd” Mellor
- Football
- Dreams Desire Love
- TOM AWONGO
- Beware Of False Profits
- Growing My Hair Like Charlie George
- Cisse
- The Number 10 Shirt
- The Substitute
- The Poet On The Football Pitch
- Sunday Park Footballer
- Emlyn Hughes
- “Yosser”
- A Liverpool Love Poem
- Love Is…
- “The Splash”
- Thisism Thatism
- Jesus
- John Cooper Clarke
- The Night King Kenny Scored
- Thinking about Football at the National Football Museum
- Berti Vogts
- A Word With Shankly’s Ghost
- I’m Wearin’ Me Liverpool Shirt
- Miracles at Anfield
- Bobby Moore He Can’t Be Dead
- The Premiership Blues
- Anfield, Wondrous Place.
- Socrates Signs for Garforth Town
- Sunday League Dreamers
- Farewell John Peel
- The Footballer formerly known as “Gazza”
- Ian “Rushie” Rush
- Ferenc Puskas
- Zola
- Ian Wright
- Ronaldo (for Brazil)
- Peter Schmeichel
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
- Until The Final Whistle
- Me and Bobby Moore
- Football Sonnets
- Over The Moon
- The Manager’s Prayer
- Football Relationships
- The Referee
- There is no football in Liverpool today
- October 9th 1940 was a great day for Liverpool….John Lennon was born.
- The Arsenal March On….
- Football As An Art Form
- Celtic v AC Milan
- Davie Fairclough
- Bill Dean
- Remembering Shankly
- Coming Home
- Yoko Ono in the ‘Pool
- Copying King Kenny
- Billy Liddellpool
- Nat Lofthouse
- Paul McGrath
- Roger Milla
- Gerd Muller
- The Enduring Spirit Of Football
- St John of The Cross
- The Kopites Song
- Football’s Burning Heart
- Last Night’s Match
- Cloughie
- Another Great Anfield Night
- Does God support the Redmen Dad?
- Larsson Does A Law
- I Love the colour Red
- Roger McGough
- Me
- Luis Garcia
- Dalglish and Lydon
- In Memory….
- Transfer Market 2
- On the way home…
- Do You Remember?
- The Day Truth Died (15th April 1989)
- Emperors of Rome
- Walter Tull
- Liverpool 3 Inter Milan 1 (the boys of ’65)
- The Anfield Eleven
- The Fields Of Anfield
- Grand Old Club
- The Devil and his Mancs!
- Stars Of Anfield
- The New Season
- A New Anfield
- Anfield, home…
- Wrap The Red Scarf Around Me
- The Ballad Of King Kenny Dalglish
- Grace Of Anfield
- The Liverpool Reds
- Come Back Reds
- Billy Liddell
- Ballad of a Liverpool Childhood
- In The Kop
- The Season Of Dreams (2001)
- Falling In Love With Football
- The World Cup
- The Late Great Johnny Rhythm
- Martin Luther King jr
- Gandhi
- Pre Logo
- Faith in Football
- Football Poem
- Anfield Calling
- Heaven’s Football Park
- The Footballer
- Today’s Results
- Football’s Love of Money
- Globalisation v Tribalism
- Fishes & Loaves
- Emlyn Hughes
- Ron “Rowdy” Yeats
- God on The Kop
- Liverpool’s 50 Greatest European Moments
- Proud Red
- Everton 2 Liverpool 3 (march 2001)
- Sir Kenny Dalglish
- Stein & Shanks
- The Anfield Magicians
- Song For Liverpool
- God In The Kop
- Beslan
- Goals In Life
- First Match
- Zbgniew Boniek
- Billy Bremner
- Sir Bobby Charlton
- Marcel Desailly
- Enzo Francescoli
- Charlie George
- Watchin’ Liverpool
- Anfield Stars
- Liverpool V Newcastle FA Cup Final 1974
- Let Anfield Remember
- Bill Shankly chats with Moses
- Jesus had a football team
- The Final Whistle
- The Season Of Dreams (2001)
- UEFA Cup Final 2001
- This Is Anfield
- Redmen
- Anfield Maestros
- Ballad of the Liverpool Fan
- Boys of the Liverpool Red
- Football’s Holy Trinities
- Beautiful Game
- Gandhi Came To Lancashire Once…
- Strawberry Fields and Walrus dreams
- The 12 Gospels of Liverpool
- The Anfield Heart
- The Bold Liverpool Men
- The United Colours of Football…
- One cold day in heaven
- Liverpool Mass
- Just Like Dalglish
- The Old Red Scarf
- ROME ’77
- The Entry Of Shankly Into Liverpool
- The Angel of Anfield
- Christmas Eve at Anfield
- The Gospel of Liverpool
- A Liverpool Man
- In Our Liverpool Home
- The Liverpool Way
- This Is Anfield
- The Spirit Of Liverpool
- The Glorious Spirit Of Rome
- Fine Dreams of Heaven
- Liverpool Born and Red
- The Dream
- The Echoes Of Childhood
- The Sacred Emblem
- The Spion Kop
- Liverpool Imperators
- I Will Wrap Up My Heart In The Red Scarf
- Walton Breck Road
- The Five Amigos
- Keeping The Faith
- The Reds Of Liverpool
- Faith In Liverpool
- On The Way To Anfield
- Proud Red Hearts
- The Child of Anfield
- Remembering Hillsborough
- Last Game
- Selling England’s Green and Pleasant Parks By the Pound
- Here for the Reds
- The Ballad Of Anfield
- The Humble Beginnings of Liverpool Fc
- Just Like My Father
- From “Le” to “El”
- The Pool Of Life
- Are You Sorry?
- If Only…
- Looking Back (not in anger…)
- Rafa’s Scouse Armada!
- Joe Fagan
- Liverpool Glory
- A Red Shirt
- Who Remembers Heysel?
- 96 Angels
- The Sweet Wine Of Anfield
- A Liverpool Song
- Born A Red
- JUSTICE
- Justice For The 96
- Working Class (Football) Poet
- Liverpool Days
- Bein’ 16
- Liverpool Tale
- HEY DIDDLE, DIDDLE
- Pick ME For The Team Sir!
- THE GERMS 11
- Terrace Poet
- Remembering
- Time…
- This Football Life
- Liverpool Education
- Funny Things Dreams
- Lessons
- School Holidays (down the park)
- Emily Bronte
- Gordon Banks
- Bill Shankly’s Boys
- Liverpool Red
- The Lessons of History
- The Perfect Game
- John Aldridge
- Our Bob
- Anfield (yesterday and today)
- Just Football
- A Liverpool Past
- The Liverpool Page
- Swimming In The Red Sea
- Kenny’s No.7 Shirt
- Liverpool 5 Celtic 1 (July 27th 2004)
- Does God support the Redmen Dad?
- Alex Young
- Alfredo di Stefano
- Michel Platini
- Me Old Red Scarf
- Joey Jones
- Franco Baresi
- Dennis Bergkamp
- George Best
- Danny Blanchflower
- The Liverpool Echo
- In This Town
- Football, and the child….
- Umbilical Cord
- Funky
- FOOTBALLER’S WEEK
- Top Goalie
- Toilet Roll
- United Colours Of Football
- The Child of Anfield
- pOeMs
- Our Teacher Thinks He’s David Beckham
- Transfer Market
- Cowpat Footy
- Football
- Keep This Poem…
- We Love Football
- All The World’s Children
- The Moon Pulled Laced Up His Football Boots
- MATHS RAP!
- Names
- being me…
- For Sale…
- Colours
- MRS FITZMIGGITZ
- Sons of The Mersey
- Bill Shankly’s Dream
- Our Fathers Faith
- Liam Brady
- Just Fontaine
- Archie Gemmill
- Francisco Gento
- Maradona
- Sir Tom Finney
- Kenny Dalglish
- Sir Matt Busby
- Pele
- Paul Gascoigne
- Franz Beckenbauer
- Ryan Giggs
- Thierry Henry
- Jairzhino
- Jimmy Johnstone
- Roy Keane
- Raymond Kopa
- Henrik Larsson
- Denis Law
- Paolo Maldini
- Jackie Milburn
- Luigi Riva
- Tommy Smith
- Jock Stein
- Bob Paisley
- Roberto Carlos
- Duncan Edwards
- Eusebio
- Luis Figo
- Joey Jones
- Roberto Baggio
- Bill Shankly
- Gabriel Batistuta
- Paolo Di Canio
- Stevie Heighway
- “Smokin’ Joe Fagan
- Milan Baros
- Frank Sinatra
- It’s Only A Game
- BEAUTIFUL GAME
- David Beckham
- John Barnes
- Marco Van Basten
- Zico
- Wayne Rooney
- Rivelino
- Michael Owen
- Steven Gerrard
- Eric Cantona
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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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