Football Poets

Last of our pre season friendlies
Another meaningless game
In the height of the Summer
And pouring with rain.
Match is abandoned
And neither team scores
Farcial conditions
It never rains but it pours
So next […]

Today I am saddened
Today I am dismayed
Today I am worried
Today I am afraid.
Afraid of what is happening
To Newcastle United
To the City I am so proud of
And a club so devided.
I am really not interested
Who […]

When Saturdays came, we used to say
‘Howay we’ll gan and watch United play’
And in the Farmers Rest we would meet
A now long lost pub on Percy Street.
And after the match, our next port of call
From St James’ Park […]

If someone had told me right at the start
That this game of football would tear me apart
But would I have listened ? Probably not
I chose Newcastle United, So deserve all I’ve got.
I could go on forever about our […]

We are approaching that time of the season
When we will be embarrassed by grown men who cry
As they sit in the stands, with their heads in their hands
And their tears are seen by millions on SKY.
Be it a confirmed […]

I was at my Granny’s enjoying a bowl
Of her piping hot home made broth
It will warm the cockles of your heart
She used to say, but I was never sure what she meant
But it always tasted delicious.
Saturday morning […]

David Miliband joining the ‘Mackems’
Now watch his majority shrink
Half of his constituents are TOON fans
In South Shields what will they think ?
He is also a self confessed ‘GOONER’
And the President of South […]

The Matthews final
Montgomery’s save
Stan Mortenson’s hat trick
Bert Trautmann the brave.
Community singing
A hundred thousand in song
On the Wembley terraces
Where our memories belong.
Hand knitted scarves
Flat […]

I beg your Pardew Alan
And I am sorry for my doubt
And I must confess to thinking
What’s all this about.
I was an admirer of Chris Hughton
And I’ll always feel the same
And I was saddened by his departure
But […]

The New Year will bring
What a New Year will bring
And soon another football season will be over
Nerves will be wracked
And more managers sacked
While others will be rolling in clover.
Shocks will take place
As […]

I knew what I wanted for Christmas
At Santa’s grotto I stood in the queue
But it seemed as if thousands of Geordies
Were after the same present too.
We all asked for a change of owner
But dear old Santa just shook […]

A man of great dignity
A man we could trust
Who now in wild west parlance
Has bitten the dust.
Since Fat Mick the storekeeper
Breezed into the toon
Many staff have been drinking
In the last chance saloon.
Big Sam […]

The poor lads looked frozen
As they stepped off the team bus
To a warm Geordie welcome
Well………From some of us.
But a group of young lasses
All ‘Wor Cheryl’s’ mates
To give grief to young Ashley
They had been […]

I have 20 albums full of Paninni stickers
I shudder to think what I’ve spent
I swapped Everton’s FELLAINI for the toons COLOCCINI
And paid a fiver for young DARREN BENT.
But to find THOMAS ROSICKY, I found rather […]

Big Sam shaking hands with Mike Ashley
Who not so long ago gave him the sack
Both with big grins on their faces
On the night the big fella came back.
Of course Lord Samuel of Blackburn
Walked away with a few […]

The ‘TOON ARMY’ did all the singing
While the ‘GOONERS’ just sat and waited
Many of you went home quite early
Feeling somewhat frustrated
Wenger did his moaning
But we didn’t really care
Pat Rice sat there like […]

You do your jobs
And I will try to do mine
This place should be renamed
Rumours upon Tyne
I’m asked so many questions
So much speculation
Regarding my future
And my situation
Up here on Tyneside
It’s one thing […]

I had been away on holiday
To see the sights of ancient Rome
But as we approached the north east coast
I knew I was back home.
And on the descent towards the airport
I saw the bridges of the Tyne
On a Friday […]

I have let the dust settle
And gave the matter some thought
Watched replay after replay
And still I’m distraught.
Not only for that tackle by Nigel De Jong
In the lads heart of hearts
He will know it was […]

I stood alone inside an empty St James’ Park
Closed my eyes for a few moments
And once again saw Jackie Milburn in full flight
As a chorus of The Blaydon Races
Echoed around the stadium.
I saw ten’s of thousands […]