Football poems/songs

[tomoufc]

Just thought I'd share this with you all. It summs up my feeling about footee pretty well. The person who wrote it is called Atilla the Stockbroker definatly worth googling.

ONLY FOOTBALL?
(a new song)

His forebears were the butchers on the field at Peterloo
They led the charge and cut the people down
They ruled the mill, starved weavers out, beat Chartists black and blue
Made millions in some hellish sweatshop town
I'm sure he cursed his countrymen in '84 and '5
His queen called them 'the enemy within'
He's the overseer, the usurer, drone within the hive
Whose wallet is his god, his kith and kin

and don't tell me it's only football

His system defines 'ownership' - a mess of paper shares
A slick deal, a commodity acquired
He pulls the strings and works the law so he controls the 'wares'
Then laughs at all the anguish he's inspired
Now we are many thousands, and he is only one
But law and state hold him in their embrace
What kind of law, what kind of state condones what he has done?
A state where social justice has no place

CHORUS

So don't tell me it's only football
And above all, friends, don't tell me please
That it's nothing to do with years of sleaze
The shattered lives and the corporate trough
Don't tell me it's just a sad one-off
That it's nothing to do with politics
That politics and sport don't mix
Don't tell me it's just bad luck
Because it isn't only football

Our grounds rose up near stations in old Victorian times
Most urban centres then were barely towns
Built for our teams, then left in trust to us across the years
By people who loved football, not just pounds
The vulture sees the soaring price of inner city land
An ailing club which he can desecrate
To us it's pride and history, the story of our lives
To him it's just some prime site real estate

CHORUS

Our culture has been colonised, our heritage is sold
And moneymen control our national game
It's devil take the hindmost, all hail the Premier League
And if you can't compete, well, that's a shame
There's a superstore development and it's coming to your ground
A pinstriped butcher's waiting with his knife
Brighton, Wrexham, anywhere - the message is the same
Let's kick him out - of football, and of life!

CHORUS

[Hog]

I once wrote a poem for Raging Bull. It was very much of it's time ...

On,
And on,
And on,
Ed Hort-on.

[Snake]

Just thought I'd share this with you all. It summs up my feeling about footee pretty well. The person who wrote it is called Atilla the Stockbroker

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Atilla the Stockbroker was one of the stars of the 2nd Town Hall meeting organised 10 years ago and I've met him a few times since then. He even played a gig in Oxford a year or two ago.

And I too was impressed by his prose - in fact I adapted one of his poems for our own use here at OUFC.

http://www.rageonline.co.uk/mainpage.ph ... icle_id=24

[Baboo]

I offered Attila his train fare from our funds and he refused to take it. Good man.

[tomoufc]

Snake, there needs to be a new section to the site - good football poetry.

[Deadly]

I reckon I could get Atilla to do a gig for the 12th Man fund...

[Snake]

I reckon I could get Atilla to do a gig for the 12th Man fund...

Football-wise he’s busy doing stuff for his home club in Brighton, but he’s still on my list of people to call upon should we ever get a proper crisis again.

[dialed]

i am a newbie in this forum, i would also like to share funny football poems, hope you will like them. do you also have some newer peotry collection on this particular topic because we see same stuff almost everywhere

The world cup is here right now and i will be backing spain,
torres and villa my first goal scorers right troughtout the game,
mebe this year an outside team will take the world by storm,
its anoying watching matches when there all blowing them horns,
the horns sound like a swarm of bees everyday in your home,
and i have to lower the tv down cause me missus is a moan,
i am really bad at betting and dont not know why i do it,
im allways bitting my nails or on the couch eating chewits,
i dont know anything about football or follow a team,
i just do it to anoy the wife cause she is very mean,
this week i bet 1000 and i dont see a problem at all,
i have to wear glasses and can never see the football,
i have to give up betting or my wife she will leave me,
now i have to go cause shes making me make the tea.

[pottersrightboot]

Where's Wolfie Smith when you need him?

[slappy]

Snake, there needs to be a new section to the site - good football poetry.

Not sure if I am being whooshed here, but
Rageonline does have a crap poetry section

[Kernow Yellow]

i am really bad at betting and dont not know why i do it,
im allways bitting my nails or on the couch eating chewits,

Shakespeare eat your heart out.

This is the oddest post I've ever seen. A 'newbie', who claims not to follow a football team, has dug up a 2-year old thread on an obscure OUFC internet forum and posted one of the worst poems I've ever read, about a World Cup that happened 18 months ago. And used appalling grammar and spelling as a siren-call for the rageonline community.

Very, very strange.

[Yankee Clipper]

i am really bad at betting and dont not know why i do it,
im allways bitting my nails or on the couch eating chewits,

Shakespeare eat your heart out.

This is the oddest post I've ever seen. A 'newbie', who claims not to follow a football team, has dug up a 2-year old thread on an obscure OUFC internet forum and posted one of the worst poems I've ever read, about a World Cup that happened 18 months ago. And used appalling grammar and spelling as a siren-call for the rageonline community.

Very, very strange.

But pure comedy genius all the same!!

[Yankee Clipper]

I once wrote a poem for Raging Bull. It was very much of it's time ...

On,
And on,
And on,
Ed Hort-on.

Ha ha that's one of two things that I would quote if someone mentioned Raging Bull, the other thing I remember was a team list and formation credited to Ed with all 11 players on the Left Wing.

Bizarre the things you retain

[YF Dan]

I once wrote a poem for Raging Bull. It was very much of it's time ...

On,
And on,
And on,
Ed Hort-on.

Ha ha that's one of two things that I would quote if someone mentioned Raging Bull, the other thing I remember was a team list and formation credited to Ed with all 11 players on the Left Wing.

Bizarre the things you retain

Ahem. I think you'll find that was in a rival publication.

[Yankee Clipper]

I once wrote a poem for Raging Bull. It was very much of it's time ...

On,
And on,
And on,
Ed Hort-on.

Ha ha that's one of two things that I would quote if someone mentioned Raging Bull, the other thing I remember was a team list and formation credited to Ed with all 11 players on the Left Wing.

Bizarre the things you retain

Ahem. I think you'll find that was in a rival publication.

My apologies Dan!! I didn't realise that was a YF classic. I remember a few things from YF, an &quotinterview&quot with Malcolm Shotton - very much so. Kirby Muxloe!!