GENTLEMAN GEORGE THE FLYING FULLBACK - GEORGE COHEN

 

George Reginald Cohen MBE (22 October 1939 – 23 December 2022)

 

George Cohen was a one-club player

Playing 459 games at right back for Fulham

He will also be forever immortalized

For winning the World Cup with England in 1966

In which he played in every minute

Of his country's six games,

For which he was inducted into

The English Football Hall of Fame 

England Manager, Sir Alf Ramsey

Unequivocally called Cohen

“England's greatest right-back”,

While Manchester United winger

George Best, claimed he was

“The best full-back I ever played against”.

His life was not all glory however

He had more than his fair share of illness and injury

And personal tragedy in his life  

But he was a true English sporting hero

HEROES RETURN – BRAZIL 2014

 

England will fly home

Into Glasgow Airport

Thus ensuring, a heroes

Welcome of a sort

THE MAGYARS CAME TO PLAY

 

In nineteen fifty three

The Magyars came to play

Bamboozling Billy Wright

The Beckham of his day

When Puskás dragged back

He made Billy Wright esquire

Look like a fire engine

Heading towards the wrong fire

 

On 25 November 1953, at Wembley Stadium

England 3 Hungary 6, Ferenc Puskás scored twice

BEND IT LIKE URI –BRAZIL 2014

 

The reason England failed

So says a guy in a Favela

“It’s all the fault of that

Spoon bending fella”

“We’d have won if we hadn’t

Snubbed Uri Gellar”

ENGLAND IN BRAZIL 2014

 

 2010You should always have a plan B

In Completive football I’d say

Unfortunately for England though

They neglected to have a plan A

BACK IN 1966

 

Back in 1966

When I was just a boy

I was full of pride

Watching Nobby’s jig of joy

And when Bobby Moore

Was raised shoulder high

Holding the World Cup

We all began to cry

THE LAST OF THE SUMMER WHINE

No sooner had the stumps been pulled

Then the Vintage Aussie Whine was served

Made from their abundant sour grapes

It was to toast an English victory well deserved 

THE SIXTIES

 

The sixties, what a decade

I was only five, when in 1960

The Beatles hit the scene

And the following year

JFK took office as President

In 1962 a very significant appointment,

That of Alf Ramsey as England Manager,

Who brought us the Wingless Wonders.

The reborn Manchester United

Rising phoenix like from the ashes of Munich

Won the FA Cup in 1963.

In 1964 I held hands with Carole Duffy,

A very wonderful event at the time,

1965 saw United win the League title

And the mini skirt first appeared

The latter was less significant when I was 10

Then in 66 England won the world cup

(And yes, the ball did cross the line)

United won the League again the following year

And then fulfilling the dream,

So cruelly crushed 10 years before,

Manchester United won the European cup in 1968.

1969 was famously the year

That Linda McMahon first kissed me

Oh, and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

For me it was a decade of dreams coming true

A time when I thought life just couldn’t get any better

And I was right, because then came the 70s

DON CAPELLO - SOUTH AFRICA 2010

 

Don Capello spoke of the “Big Mistake”

And a big performance is his wish

But sadly, the outspoken John Terry

Will tonight be sleeping with the fish

BRITISH BULLDOG

 

Diego Maradona

He of the infamous

Hand of God

Has been savaged

By his new pet

The hound of God

HOWARDS END - SOUTH AFRICA 2010

 

Well England made it to the final

Though alas only the refereeing chap

But like the England team before him

Howard Webb was really crap

BACK IN 66

 

Back in 66

When I was just a boy

I was full of pride

Watching Nobby’s jig of joy

And when Bobby Moore

Was raised shoulder high

Holding the World Cup

It made every Scotsman cry

BACK IN 1966

 

Back in 1966

When I was just a boy

I was full of pride

Watching Nobby’s jig of joy

And when Bobby Moore

Was raised shoulder high

Holding the World Cup

We all began to cry

ENGLAND INEPT IN BRAZIL 2014

 

There has only been one thing

More inept than England and it 

Is Alan Shearer’s pompously

Hapless performance as a pundit

HEROES RETURN – BRAZIL 2014

England will fly home

Into Glasgow Airport

Thus ensuring, a heroes

Welcome of a sort 

BEND IT LIKE URI –BRAZIL 2014

 

The reason England failed

So says a guy in a Favela

“It’s all the fault of that

Spoon bending fella”

“We’d have won if we hadn’t

Snubbed Uri Gellar”

ENGLAND IN BRAZIL 2014

 

You should always have a plan B

In Completive football I’d say

Unfortunately for England though

They neglected to have a plan A

AN ENGLISHMAN WALKED INTO A PUB

 

An Englishman walked into a pub

But something was definitely up

There were no Irish, Welsh or Scots

Because they were still in the cup

ALADDIN’S WISH

 

Aladdin rubbed his lamp

And a Genie did appear

You can have one wish

But only one he made clear

 

“I want to live forever”

Aladdin told the genie.
“I’m sorry” Came the reply

“You can’t wish for immortality”

 

“Living forever

Is against the regulations

You must think again

And revise your expectation”

 

“Do you have your wish?”

Aladdin answered “Yup”

“I want to live to see

England win the World Cup”

WORLD CUP RUSSIA 2018 – ENGLAND 0, BELGIUM 1

 

The old England are back,

I don’t know where they’ve bin’

But from a position of strength

They fucked up agin’

They’ve managed to lose,

Very much to their chagrin,

To a weak Belgium team,

Who didn’t even want to win