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Poems tagged ‘Champions League’

Champions League Final 2019: Liverpool and the power of six

Emdad Rahman

Sunday, July 28th, 2019

Estadio Metropolitano for the cup
The Reds were hardly sublime
Klopp was happy to soak it up
And lift Big Ears for the sixth time

Salah’s penalty wasn’t that sound
Twelve months, how time flies
Origi bangs, we’re Anfield bound
With the continents biggest prize

Spurs tried but lacked the kill
Total shutdown Alisson Becker
The City of Liverpool is at a standstill
As the Reds get the Double Decker

Rome Seventy Seven, London Seventy Eight
Henderson fulfills a dream
Paris Eighty One, a Rome Eighty Four date
Istanbul and Madrid Nineteen

number7

© emdad rahman

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CFC, AFC, LFC, THFC

Clik The Mouse

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Teresa May, she knew
that Brexit would prove problematic
in the EU

but Brexit
is absolutely NOT happening
in UEFA

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Mission Impossible – “with hope in your hearts!”

Clik The Mouse

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019

“Your Mission – should you choose to accept it
Is to beat Barcelona 4-0
Without Mo Salah
Without Bobby Firminho
And with Andy Robertson going off at half-time
And, with old-boys Coutinho and Chewy Luis grinning and gurning
Somehow you have to introduce, pace, passion and rhyme.

Good luck with that!
This tape, just like your chances
Will self-destruct in 3 seconds”
At kick-off
There just aren’t enough Tom Cruise stunt doubles
To alleviate Liverpool’s troubles

But, as it turns out
There were 54,000 script-writers there last night
Who hoped and believed
And left Anfield, both stunned and relieved
Elated and sated
Canonising Klopp and his team
And living, the impossible dream!

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Gigi loves olives but not Oliver! (Bedlam at the Bernabau)

Clik The Mouse

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Real Madrid v Juventus, CL Q-F. Real win 4-3 on agg, with last minute winning pen from Cristiano Ronaldo. Referee = Michael Oliver. 11/04/2018

Let’s start at the end
And just pretend
There was no emotion
That drove the commotion

Cristiano revs up
Strikes with full throttle
After such a long wait
What a lotta bottle!

Szczesny strolled on
Acting all cocky and cool
Last minute sub facing a pen
Oliver debatably brave or fool!!

The referee
Was surrounded, hounded and shoved
Many saying it shouldn’t be red
Simply because it’s retiring Gigi (beloved)

To emphasize, the referee
Was surrounded, hounded and shoved
Where it could have been one of many
The red was flashed to Gigi (be-gloved)

In all the furore
VAR gets a mention
But for such a 50/50 call
It wouldn’t have solved the tension

Benatia shoves in the back
Vasquez hits the ground
Depending on your allegiance
The ref’s whistle is unsound!

Real with last throw of the dice
Desperately, Toni Kroos he chips
Ronaldo peels and bounds
His header preceding tooted pips

The tie started out looking comfy
Real at home and ahead by three
But Juve bag a triple
To every neutral’s glee!

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Nonpareil

Clik The Mouse

Thursday, March 9th, 2017

OMG
did u c
PSG
torn to shreds
by wily heads
in Barca threads

And did we see a changing of the guard?
For ‘twas not Messi
as dribbling bard
but Neymar
as nuanced Nova
who drove them hard

it’s what we football fans call
pure magic
and the poor Parisiennes…
truly tragic!

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