Francis Duggan Football Poems

This is the football Season it is that time of year
When men in the pub talk football as they enjoy their beer
And look forward to September when one club will fly the winner's flag
The team that wins the Premiership gives their fans the right to brag.
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Another Football Season has just commenced having said so just the same
A lot of hype and excitement about a field game
For many from their life problems a relief of sorts
Suppose that's why the establishments created sports.
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'Tis football is the big World game of today
Grid Iron the big game of the U S of A,
Rugby League, Rugby Union and Aussie Rules Football
And soccer the biggest World game of them all
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He is not getting on with his unhappy wife
His Football Club his diversion from his problems in life
He looks forward to the weekend through each working day
To cheer on his team such is life some do say.
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In the floodlight lit football oval each weeknight after tea
I hear the young men shouting as they train diligently
As their coach puts them through their training drills their exuberance I hear
They sprint about in the chill night air in the coldest time of year.
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Suppose football does serve a purpose some males do need other interests in their lives
Than working or drinking of alcohol or arguing with or making love to their girl friends or wives
On saturday they go to the football to cheer on their team win or lose
'Tis better for them than going to the local and wasting their money on the booze
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I've heard that Ballydaly does not have a football team
Which puts a cloud on Tommy Tucker's dream
That they might win Duhallow for third time
And give some bard another chance to rhyme.
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Their flags and their banners they are waving with joy and excitement they shout
The hero has kicked the winning goal but what are they shouting about
To them it should not really matter 'tis only a game of football
But to them it is very important and their's is the best team of all.
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For the Cork Gaelic Footballers another humbling defeat
By their neighbours Kerry in Croke Park once more they've been beat
In Gaelic Football in Ireland Kerry to the fore
With 36 All Ireland titles and their fans hoping for more.
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Around his bed his friends and family but of them he's not aware
His life's journey about to end old Joe the ex footballer player
On his back his eyes closed to his surroundings the life from him ebbing away
Last month he celebrated his eightieth birthday and today his life's final day.
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Most of those who knew him thought he was not good enough
He could not measure up when the going did get tough
In the Grand Final he wilted under pressure with the game to be won
When he could have become the town's favourite son.
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They celebrate in the Commercial and Mickey Bourke's pub
The marvellous win of Koroit Saints Football Club
The Warrnambool Blues the pride of Warrnambool Town
In the Football Grand Final to the red and black went down
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To be good at football assures one of local fame
Though outside of your hometown yours is not a known name
For there is quite a difference between good and great
And outside of their hometown local heroes few know of to celebrate
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In some ways humanity does not seem advanced at all
People in their physical prime tussling over possession of one football
They ought to get a football each with for to play
And for many it would be just as enjoyable for to watch anyway
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They always do patronize the local pub
The fans and the members of the town's football club
Seated at the bar tables in small groups they talk of football
And little else matter much to them at all
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His life revolves around women and beer and football
He only works because he needs money since work does not interest him at all
On Saturday he goes to the football to urge his favorite team on
And after the game he goes to the local pub to drink with his mates Joe, Andy and Ron
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In his young years he was healthy, happy and carefree
He is not the man that he once used to be
He seldom sees their son and daughter and their children and estranged from his wife
One can only say that not all is well in his life
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It does not matter to me says Jim McCray
Who won or who lost in the game of the day
This football as such does not appeal to me
Though my wife and children watch it on the t v
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Football is the main topic at the local pub
Where many young and not so young males wear the colors of their club
In Winter and early Spring from the early Fall
The main topic by many males you've guessed it is football
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Of late little in our lives for to talk of at all
We can count ourselves lucky for to have football
For our after work get together in the local pub
For to talk of the fortunes of our favourite club
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A man amongst men back in his prime day
In Gaelic Football for Cork and for Millstreet great games he did play
Most of those he grew up with in eternal rest lay
But Johnny Keeffe is a living sporting legend today
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To the rulings laid down by the Bishop of Rome to the letter she obey
One you'll see in her local church Sunday and every week day
But her husband is very different to her his Gods do play football
The heroes of his favorite club adorn his bedroom wall
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Where a given number of players from each team compete physically for one ball
A wise man once said to me this makes no sense at all
Why not give every player a ball each to play with and there would not be any injuries
Such as broken bones and torn hamstrings and serious injuries to the knees
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Their worries in life would have to be small
For their main topic when they meet is always football
And what club this Season will win the premiership flag
And give their loyal fans the right for to brag
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Another Football Season has already begun
Where thirty six young men in their life's prime after one ball do run
And tackle the one with the football and drag him to the ground
Where so many men fight for one ball is there sense to be found
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He does have a very sad look on his face
Disappointment in sport can be hard to embrace
At the weekend the team he is a fan of did not win
Yet life does go on and the sky did not fall in
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The football club's best and fairest when he was in his prime
But eventually we all become victims of time
The legs that did run fast are now walking slow
The seasons of life on him are beginning to show
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Another Football Season down at the local pub
The footy fans discuss the fortunes of their favorite football club
Who will be premiers in September on football's biggest day
The winners always grinners and have the last hooray
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In Millstreet when i was a youngster to be good at Gaelic Football
Was seen as important as i now do recall
It was a close up third behind money and god
The values of many people to me does seem quite odd
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In Millstreet when i was a youngster to be good at Gaelic Football
Was seen as important as i now do recall
It was a close up third behind money and god
The values of many people to me does seem quite odd
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'Tis sad that their gallant effort to nothing did amount
In sport as in life only winners seem to count
And though the winners did play a great game of football
Their effort it did come to nothing at all
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The 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa of the World's most popular field game
But only to the outright winner will go all of the fame
Out of thirty two finalists only one Country will be champions on World Cup final day
To the winner all of the glory as some do like to say
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