Football Poets

Here come Spain,
from Johannesburg 2010 to another World Cup dream
Their previous World Cup Final
was in Mandela’s South Africa

Now, sixteen years on
they return to the Final once more,
fondly remembering […]

Portugal v Croatia
was
The First World Var

The first Var Decision

That destroyed one World Cup

And the very soul of the competition

You know what
During this hard match
Germany vs Paraguay
I repeated hundreds of times
Romero
Romero
Romero
Romero
And it is simple to guess why
I have Mexico 1986
in my mind
There was
Paraguay’s […]

The best football drummer –
Manolo
An inescapable figure on the terraces of stadiums the world over.

He might have been a simple drummer.
But nothing is simple when the whole world knows you.
And the simple […]

Ah, look at the greatest names in football from
matches that ended 6-1
Enzo Francescoli who shaped football was among  those who lost 6-1
On one hand there was the thundering Denmark team
composed of such […]

Do England players at the World Cup need a
guardian angel?
No, they don’t
They are really like the angels

I can see the picture of Bellingham lifting
the trophy

Bellingham, probably the star of this […]

I am berserk in the worst way
I think this is, by far the worst day in football history
not counting the great well-known stadium tragedies

This feels worse than the “half-and-half scarf” era-
yet somehow, […]

It can surely be beatiful and even touching to support a club that is a giant in two different sports

I love the sport

And yet, beyond this comfortable perspective I can find something in the very core of a […]

Lyon!
The beautiful French city and its Gerland district at the end of the 1950’s and the beginning of
the 1960’s belonged to a very particular football world
There was a young boy who started working in a […]

Red and white Kidderminster are living
between glory and worldwide anonymity
They are red and white and they are Kidderminster
and I love the name of their stadium
So I love Aggborough
But something is quite […]

Tonight the stars align for Rayo Vallecano Football Club
This evening as Spain whispers to the moon Rayo Vallecano takes on Strasbourg

Yes, Rayo Vallecano fans say something like “We can work it out” waiting […]

I was reading the latest news on World Cup Final ticket prices

Nearly two millions dollars for a single ticket.

What if you were the person who paid two millions dollars to watch the country you […]

There are places I remember,
Attracting every single sunshine ray
Attracting only comfortable pleasure
There is a very splendid and
wonderful place that I have been to
so many many times
Golf de […]

Man enters his last days
on Wednesday, October 14
but he hears the strains of “God Save the Queen”
from the stadium near his last home

Likely for visitors and perhaps for him
just before closing his eyes for […]

I have only one wish
To listen to all the results from Gordon’s readings
on an  audio book
Remembering only one thing worth remembering at all
Saturday nights on the radio
deep voice rolling through the […]

Football is the force that can
bind people in goodness

Teams clash, hearts unite alive

Diverse names on faded sheets

Shared pitches, where
brotherhoods meet

Any form of football game
Any time at all
“Baby Foot” as it is called in France
“Table Football” in England

But how many other football games are there
and how many have there been?

As a boy I made up my […]

I am proud
I was only once at Goodison

But I was

Even now as I write

I am watching my only Goodison match
on YouTube pointing at
The Park End where I was sitting

But would you like to know
which […]