Punter Poet

Tommy Coyne

I thought you were
Absolutely
Magic

I would go you at
Break time and
Always

Just be stood there
Not involved
But waiting

For the ball to
Make its way over
Then

Smash it past the
Keeper into the net

Greece 3-1

Sometimes even
The simple things
In life

Like football make no
Sense at all,
As when

They score and we’ve
Been awful
The whole game

Then Gannon-Doak
Comes off and its so
Flat

Then we score three!
Steve Clarke is a genius

Matt Le Tissier

Tynecastle in
A pre season
Friendly

My dad took me and
Paul G to
See you

For Southampton
Against Hearts.
Neil McCann

Had just signed and
Was there before kick
Off

Those pre season
Games used to be brilliant

Russell Martin

I fell for it -
Before you got
The job

Sportsound had a guy
Explaining
How your

Tactics would work
So well V
The low block -

I watched every
Game of your tenure
What

Exactly was
The plan to win those games?

Craig Halkett’s Winner

I was born in
Nineteen eighty
One, so -

After forty years
Of Old Firm
Success

Mixed with total
Disregard
For fans of

The ‘other’ teams -
And paranoid claims
of

Conspiracy -
I do hope Hearts win it

Willie Miller

A friendly with
Spain, eighty eight
My dad

Kept telling me to
Note the way
You ran

The back four all
Game, in charge,
Dictating -

He was right, you
Anticipated
With

Control - it was
A real education

Douglas Ross

I saw hibs lose
At Rugby Park
One nil,

You running the line
Second half,
Me in

With the home fans
Right in front
Of you, folk

Shouting ‘Tory
Scum’ then ‘How do you
Sleep

At night mate? Why
Put yourself through all this?

Mark Walters

I was watching
On Sportscene that
Night when

They were throwing stuff,
Bananas,
Making

Monkey noises
Horrible
You stood there

In the midst of
That. You were so good
Too

One of the best
Dribblers I’ve ever seen

Davie Dodds

I remember
Learning all the
Words to

Elephant Man in
An R.E.
Lesson -

Of all things - It
Was OK
Somehow, to

Shout abuse at
Some people back then.
You

Were some player
And had to take all that

Norway 23

Stood in a pub
With fake tickets -
But then!

When Lyndon flicked out
That right boot,
The ball

Trundling over
The line, then
His touch back

For Kenny to
Place it in the net -
Sheer

Bedlam! - I don't
Recall anything else

Jorge Cadete

You had hair like
Spaghetti, for
One year

Everyone in school
Was belting
Out that

Tune. It was a
Really good
Celtic side

Who should have won
The league that year but
Still

You were great fun
And a great player too

George Best

I can't believe
You ever played
For Hibs

We had an old tape
When I was
A kid

All your goals for
United,
Ireland,

Clips from Fulham
Laughing with Rodney
Marsh -

I do love that
You played at Easter road

Frank McAvennie

I only know
The Jonathan
Watson

You, really. But I
Remember
Watching

You score two goals
As a kid,
The final

Where they waved the
Red cards for Thatcher -
It's

Still a really
Vivid image, that day

Pass it on

My old man is
Eighty five this
Morning

He took me to see
Rangers, hearts
Celtic

Scottish cup games,
Europe, big
Matches at

Hampden: McStay
Cooper, Laudrup, Big
Dunc

I am so glad
I caught the bug back then

Natcho

I have now seen
You play seven
Times for

Belgrade Or Israel
v Scotland
or Hibs

Every time you
Have been top
Class mate, sat

In there reading
All movement around
Then

Turning away:
Finding, passing; pure class

The World Cup

I’m doing it
Again, again -
We beat

Belarus after
Drawing with
Denmark

And I’m convinced
We’re off to
The world cup

Gilmour, McGinn
Ben Gannon Doak, Mc
Fratm

I really think
We are gonnae do this

Kenny Miller

I was gutted
When you left for
Rangers

You were such a good
Young player -
Non stop

So dangerous
Always there
For a goal -

Then playing with
Scotland, goals in huge
Games -

That Italy
Header - you were class mate

David Fernandez

I loved watching
You playing for
Livvy

All skill and movement -
Like someone
I found

Playing Football
Manager -
Unheard of,

Discovered here
In Livingston - Where
Did

You come from? How
Were you not worth millions?

Davie Martindale

There will be a
Statue of you
Someday

Outside the ground when
People see
You kept

That club going;
You stayed there
Making them

Better, stronger -
Being stronger your
Self:

The whole town should
Be so proud of you mate

Stuart Lovell

I was stood there
In the stand with
My dad

Disbelieving you
Had scored that
Wonder

Goal - Last minute
Overhead
Kick, Escape

To Victory
Stuff - After I had
Said

You were not good
Enough for Hibs - Magic!

Eoin Jess

You were so good,
Just when I was
Starting

To think about who
Was good or
Likely

To become a
Great player,
Move to Spain,

Help us to win
The world cup; I
Still

Think you could have
Won the Ballon d’or mate

Ken Eadie

You were the first
Panini I
Exchanged

I remember your
Smile, Clydebank
I think

When I first watched
The football
You seemed to

Score every week -
I’d go you at break
time

Imagining
My Panini sticker

Kieron Bowie

Whatever else
You do with your
Career -

And you can do loads
By the looks
Of things -

I will never
Forget that
Strike and the

Way I scared my
Wife shouting when the
Ball

Hit post and net -
Football is love; magic

Rocky Bushiri

Your signing was
The best mistake
Hibs made

I'll admit I thought
You were pish -
I know

Nothing - you are
Fantastic
For Hibs mate

I love watching
You marshal the back
Three

They’ll still sing your
Name in a hundred years

Sunshine on Leith

Is the best song
Ever sung at
Football

There are other
Great songs, but
Nothing like

Hibs fans belting
All in tune
Beautiful

Lyrics that mean
Something only to
Hibs:

To the people
Who sing it as a hymn

Callum Davidson

You won the cup
Two times with St
Johnstone

Then they sacked you, what
Did they want?
You were

Good with Scotland
Too, we were
Better than

We thought we were
Back then under Craig
Brown

What would they deem
Success at St Johnstone?

Midtjylland 25

This is football:
You play great then
With the

Last kick of the ball
They score a
World class

Overhead kick
From nowhere -
What a goal! -

And it just feels
So unjust to have
Lost

When you were there
In the tie for both legs

Kevin McAllister

I thought you were
The best player
Alive -

I was a wean - but
You could pass
Dribble

Turn defenders
Inside out
It was joy

To see you on
Your game at Easter
Road -

We named our cat
Kevin McAllister

Paul McStay

Were you playing
Now it would be
Fifty

Million to take you
To England
Or Spain -

They'd be queueing
Up to have
You in their

Team - all those goals
And the quick thinking;
You

Were as good as
Anyone that's played here

Scottish Cup Final 2002

I watched this in
A Celtic Bar
Tyneside

At uni with pals
Who were all
Celtic

Fans, it was a
Fantastic
Game, then when

Lovenkrands scored
The place went so still
I

Wanted to laugh
At their sincerity