STEPHEN WATT DUMBARTON FC
‘ Football chants are absolutely brilliant. I love the way fans find ways of reworking pop songs
STEPHEN WATT doesn’t feel like he’s introducing poetry to Scottish football – he thinks it’s already there.
He’s the poet for Championship side Dumbarton FC. “Football chants are absolutely brilliant, I love the way contemporary pop songs are reworked. “One of my favourites was when Steve Lovell played for Aberdeen, and the Dons fans sang ‘Lovell tear you apart, again’, to the tune of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.
“Poetic? Maybe. Clever? Certainly.”
His club may be only a point off the bottom of the league, but award-winning writer Stephen is celebrating landing Dumbarton’s first trophy this season – the Poetry and Penalties Cup in Stow last week.
“I didn’t practice except to hit a few wind-floater penalties with my little niece using a pair of trainers as goalposts.
“I don’t think practice was necessary for the tournament – just a good sense of humour and not to embarrass oneself too much.
“Will there be an international tournament? It’s a possibility.
“I notice punk poet Attila The Stockbroker, Brighton & Hove Albion’s poet, liked our penalty tournament and asked Ian McMillan, (Barnsley’s poet), about making it international.
“Typical of the south of the Border to follow Scotland’s lead, of course...”