Today's Poem Thursday 16 July 2026

the party’s over for another four years 

Argentine moss once more resisted the rolling stone 

it was always going to be a Messi ending 

and again football is not coming home 

over time they achieved a united state 

their course to greatness couldn’t have been harder 

fallen short of a goal at the (semi) final hurdle 

leaving three lions sat weeping in an Atlanta corner 

celebrations began as the game ended 

with a sign basically saying ‘Hands off our Malvinas’ 

while English hands held their sorry heads 

politics and sport irrevocably mixed by Argentina 

will English lions ever get a better chance 

now more than sixty years since the World Cup final wall was breached 

perhaps too defensive in the game and over the islands 

a dogged hand needed to resolve this Anglo-Argentinian beef