oWANDERERS' antics on the pitch have helped one fan hit the target with poetry lovers.

Lifelong supporter Dennis Swift first picked up a pen to express his footballing thoughts in verse 10 years ago.

And since then his humorous, football poems have become a feature of the team's official website message board and even been read out on Sky Sports television.

Now Dennis, a 47-year-old plasterer, is hoping his words of wisdom will reach a wider audience and is looking for someone to publish his collected footballing works in book form.

Wanderers' own poet laureate can not remember how he first came to put pen to paper, but believes the urge to rhyme words runs in the family -- both his mum and dad wrote poems.

"It was just something that really came naturally," said Dennis.

Now he just waits for inspiration to strike before composing a line or two.

"I can be plastering a wall and think of something and have to nip out to the car to write it down," said father-of-three Dennis.

"Sometimes I can be deep in thought and totally oblivious to everything around me.

"My kids just think I am crazy."

But wife Brenda is supportive of his talent, even using her artistic skill to illustrate some of his work.

Dennis, of Tyldesley Old Road, Atherton, says his favourite poems relate to the days when Wanderers used to play at Burnden Park.

But he admits his best poems come when his favourite team are not doing so well.