Poems tagged ‘Tottenham’
Manchester City beaten
At long last
City have
Fallen on
Stony ground
Spurs their
Nemesis
Double
Completed
Giants
Reduced
In size
No longer
Supreme
Liverpool
And Chelsea
The title race
Is on,
City shaken
But Spurs
Blood
Pumping again
An FA Cup classic
Everton 5-4 Tottenham
Barely three minutes of a classic
When Sanchez lights the spark
For a nine goal thriller
At an empty Goodison Park
Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison
Start a three goal breakthrough
Sigurdsson from the spot
Lamela makes it 3-2
All this before the break
But there’s still more to see
It’s Sanchez yet again
To level things 3-3
Richarlison makes it a double
Surely Toffees are on the up?
Son’s cross nodded by Kane
Wow! The magic of the FA Cup
Who’ll dig deep for victory?
A gruelling mount to climb
Bernard the hero fires home
Seven minutes into extra time
10 02 21
number7
© emdad rahman
Homeless during the Coronavirus
#mondaymotivation Every #homeless person has a story worth listening to. They didn’t just wake up one day and find themselves in destitution! #thewanderinglondoner
Homeless during the Coronavirus pandemic!
Spurs fan Stu’s from the army
Rejected by life, dejected
With Covid-19 in full swing
How do rough sleepers stay unaffected?
Stu says Hoddle was the best
Of all that graced the Lane
Then there’s Greavsie and Gazza
His picks off the genius train
“Glenn was just a magician!”
Greaves the ultimate dazzler
“Gazza a pinball wizard”
Read Greaves, Gazza, Glenda
We agree on one thing though
Neville Southall the greatest by far
Shades Clemence, Jennings, Shilton,
Ogrizovic and Grobbelaar
Celtic Bhoy gets my programme
Scribbled in awesome graffiti
I can always tap Martin for another
Signed by Wee Jay Beatty
04 05 20
number7
© emdad rahman
#coronachronicles #coronavirus #homeless #spurs #bookbikelondon #foodbike
Spurs served for supper
Liverpool 2-1 Spurs
It was Harry Kane who got things moving
Not even a minute on the clock
Quite a super little headed number
To put the Reds in the dock
With Lloris out for the year
Poch throws in the deputy instead
Gazzaniga defies again and again
Sending Spurs in a goal ahead
Hendo squares at the start of the second
Then comes a penalty
Mohamed Salah leaves it till the end
For yet another late victory
27 10 19
number7
© emdad rahman
Mass Exodus In North London…Shortly?
If able, Kane might wish to seek pastures anew
After Tottenham gert mullered last night seven – two
and to make the dilemma perverse,
For those should I stay or should I go stars at Spurs,
A former Gooner at the fore…instrumental in turning the screw.
Peace.
Back in time down White Hart Lane
As a child I drew crowds; row upon row,
fifteen thousand little circles for the fans,
some high in the stands, some arrayed on the Shelf
cradled by that tight encircling wall
(I’m capturing White Hart Lane
at the start of the Hunter Davies years)
the groundlings penned behind a white perimeter fence,
watching Bobby Smith, Maurice Norman, Greavsie and Cliff Jones.
Now look up, see what Archibald Leitch has designed,
Like the gondola on a Zeppelin, a long white press-box
Above it a clock
And on that a ball
Then a cock
Then a sky,
No whiter than a Tottenham Hotspur shirt
I tried to go back in the Nineties; the old East Stand had gone
Someone was banging an anti-semitic drum
(ironically I suppose)
Not sure I like this, to be frank.
Maybe this is Spurs’ way of getting their masochism in first
“Always equalise before the opposition score”
and I can’t help thinking
If Sigmund Freud ever wandered up the Seven Sisters Road
From Hampstead
He’d have a field day
But the Spurs go marching on, they do
To a new home and a new Lane
So there’s my prosaic bit of doggerel
(Hang on to the ball for me, and don’t forget the cockerel)
Kepa the leper
an act of dissent
meant
disbarment
to the bench
while the stench
of mutiny
lingered
Sarri fingered
as dead man walking
meanwhile Kepa?
treated
like a leper
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28th July 2026 at 9:40 pm
Hi Denys. Thanks for your kind words. I could have mentioned Dixie Dean but decided not to.
Best wishes, mate
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26th July 2026 at 3:47 pm
Great knowledge of Everton history, Joe.
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23rd July 2026 at 6:54 pm
Hi Jason,
Sorry I forgot to congratulate you on your excellent poem as well.
Keep well
Joe
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23rd July 2026 at 6:43 pm
Hi Jason,
Thanks so much for your kind words about Kevin Keegan, a footballer of legendary status and deeply missed.
Best wishes
Joe
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23rd July 2026 at 12:01 pm
Thank you, Crispin. I will defo encorage my bunch to contribute and will of course clear it with staff room.
Many thanks
Jase
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22nd July 2026 at 6:48 pm
Great poem Jase.
You are a man of my own heart …
And great to hear that you your students poems from our site.
Keep on and more please
if ever some of your students write anything suitable for here and most importantly they give you permission to publish them, you can always do so under your name referencing their names and the school..and year.
Best Crispin
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22nd July 2026 at 10:29 am
I think this is best thing I have read so far about the legend. Thanks
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22nd July 2026 at 10:22 am
One of the greats, inspired my generation of school kids in the 80s
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23rd May 2026 at 3:35 pm
Hi Crispin,
Thanks for the featured poem for the Arsenal Premier League victory. I love that photo showing the Arsenal ladies and fans in full rattle and rosette mode. I’ve seen it before quite a few times and, I think, a bit iconic. I think it was before the Gunners victory against Liverpool in the 1950 FA Cup Final. Great photograph.
Thanks
Joe
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8th May 2026 at 4:21 pm
Thanks for that Joe. Yes it’s been some season we had a blip but came out of it and finished strong. A mate of mine supports West Ham here in Coventry and my next door neighbour is a Spurs supporter, and both are getting edgy ! I like the Championship though as it’s competitive and has some good teams, players, and fans. Anyway we are back in the top flight and who knows what will happen ?
Cheers. Kev.
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