Would You Like Fries with That?

Added on 27 June 2010

It's a fair cop Ghana 2 The USA 1 The American dream Has come undone But you see Winning the World Cup is not Really the American Dream That would be fame and celebrity And a big house and a bigger car And coffee with lots of cream Ghana win And the whole of Ghana celebrates The USA win And the w...

The Fat Lady Sings

Added on 25 June 2010

Italy are gone, too mundane to carry on And the Kings of Non-Football Are drowning in tears Go one-nil ahead, make the game dead Is the way of Non-Football But thank God, not this year Watching Italian football Is like watching The Godfather Part III You know everyone is good at what they do But a...

Lo and Behold

Added on 24 June 2010

On the fields of dreams The cull continues Although it seems That some of the dross slipped through. England Algeria Slovenia Yanks That was the headline In the Sun When the draw was made Hubris unbound Before a game had been played But you shouldn't count your chickens before... You've secured a...

And So The Slaughter Commences

Added on 23 June 2010

And so the slaughter commences The cull of the inadequate and the desperate The unlucky, the miserable, the dispossessed France With the joyous panache Of A Parisian waiter Their passing will not be mourned And Henry's Cheating Hand Was for nothing South Africa The vuvuzelas must sound for others ...

I Have Found My Voice

Added on 22 June 2010

Petulant and arrogant, querulous and corpulent Contemptuous and over-paid, locked in football's glass arcade If only the Beautiful Game Could be played without the players The carping whining collective Who stride the field Like imperious pop stars Kings in the meagre kingdom Of their own video Bu...