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!