Negotiations

Did Wayne Rooney
go completely loony?
Or was it all an act
to get an improved contract?

Reflections on a weekend's golf

By the second green
Where once was a pigeon
now only feathers

Buzzard above me
we're both searching
but for different things

Paris when it drizzles

Au revoir Paris
City of looky-looky
and pretend homeless

British Haiku Society submissions - Summer 2010

Red light halts traffic
Hoverfly on wing-mirror
also waits for green

Sparrows take cover
Strong breeze buckles silver birch
July in England

Blackfly
clustered on the rose
named after my wife

(included in British Haiku Society Journal Volume 20 Number 3)

A long time coming
first Phil Collins day* this year
*No Jacket Required

Tour de France 2010

Andy Schleck's chain slips
Contador doesn't look back
Thirty-nine seconds

Alex Higgins 1949-2010

A legend departs
Goodbye 'Hurricane' Higgins
Snooker genius

St Andrews 2010

Louis Oosthuizen
Big on name, big on talent
Open Champion

South Africa 2010

Tournament over.
Years from now, we won't forget
The vuvuzela.

Consolation?

It's here! At long last!
The game they all want to win!
The third place play-off.

Germany 0 Spain 1

Farewell Germany
thanks for the entertainment
Spain passed you to death

Uruguay 2 Netherlands 3

Steel from van Bommel
Silk from Sneijder and Robben
Dutch in the Final

Fifth of July

Today, 'eighty-two
First day at work - left early
Brazil Italy!

Argentina 0 Germany 4

Joachim Low
has two games to go.
Maradona?
Goner.

History Repeating

Hispanic handball
denies brave English-speakers
We've been here before!

Fool's Gold

A feeble exit
The 'Golden Generation'
forever tarnished

See spot. Run!

The penalty spot
Twelve yards from joy - or, perhaps
More likely, despair

Isle of Wight

Brad Friedel's
Been to The Needles
But Nicklas Bendtner
Prefers Ventnor

England 1 Slovenia 0

More spirit, more pace
More passion, more heart, more skill
More of the same please

Dissent

JT opens mouth
Capello flexes muscles
We know who's in charge

Simulation

Keita's face pains him
Must be with embarrassment
At his cheating ways

England 0 Algeria 0

How bad were England?
As jaw-droppingly awful
As I can recall

Mind Games

Fabio Capello
Is a clever fellow
But 'Der Kaiser'
Is wiser.

Elfmeter

As England falter
Old rivals show how it's done
Typical Germans

Apology for Coverage

ITV
Show football in HD
But they can't be trusted not to arse it up completely

England 1 USA 1

Not a bad result
But the way it was achieved 
Feels like we were Robbed

Anthem

England team lines up
Some stock still, some mouths moving
But no noise comes out

Dream

Ninetieth minute
Crouch volley wins the trophy!
Well, it's good to dream

Motion

John Barnes is fat now
Can't see him get to the line
Or get round the back

The First Few Haikus

Excitement
World Cup draws closer 
But I'm not as excited 
As Chris Kamara

Keeper
Just four days to go 
Who will be between the sticks? 
Tell us Capello!

Trepidation
I have this feeling 
That at some point Wayne Rooney
Is getting sent off

About the World Cup Haiku Collection

My friend Michael sparked off from my creative side with a few World Cup haikus over at his excellent http://www.cabracancha.blogspot.com/

I thought I'd have a go and, as he predicted, they're quite addictive. They all appeared first on my Twitter account @therealpeej but are posted here mainly to remind me of World Cup 2010.

Some will be better than others, some will be embarrassing but I have to get this stuff out of my head!

About this blog

This is a kind of 'virtual rough book'.

Any writing, ranting and rumination I may do and not care who sees it may appear here. Or I may get bored and delete the whole thing in next to no time.

Right now it seems a good idea!