a shot smashed in goal
release of all frustrated
tribal emotions
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CLP 11/09/2021
Last Minute Winner
Tag Archives: Football
August vii
seasons overlap
cricket runs into football
what a load of balls
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CLP 14/08/2021
On Absence
my head is elsewhere
new season begins today
schoolboy excitement
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On Football
grass boot ball goal net
nations, flags, identity
complicated game
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CLP 11/07/2021
On Dreams xi
One hundred thirty
seven years and five attempts
Youri Tielemans!
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n.b. Better LCFC than CFC imo. Fab goal too.
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CLP 16/05/2021
TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY
will be much like yesterday’s
not so different from that to be
disseminated the day after tomorrow
.
World’s Biggest Rabbit still stolen
very old Greek man still awaits burial
.
Pyroclastic clouds over St Vincent
as La Soufrière fumes
.
latest football results
different combinations same names
reconfigured numbers
keep population happy with games
.
wealth to be redistributed
amongst wealthy
more bread at food-banks for needy
acts of charity headlined
prove rich are not really so greedy
.
China, Russia, USA military manoeuvres
under-stated
news must not be too scary
.
English lambing season
cute pictures abound
wobbly woolly legs and tails
bottle-fed by volunteer
shepherdess called, Mary
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variants of Covid-19 and subsequent vaccinations
analysed at length expanded in fine detail
opinion pieces and ten top tips
how to keep fit and healthy
thoughts on how to keep strong and mentally stable
millions google for places they can spend vacation
.
Minneapolis trial progresses
horrors carried out by men with guns multiply
in each of planet’s broken-hearted nations
.
plastics still simple and cheap
flooding oceans
ice caps continue to melt
opinion is polar bears might soon have something
on which they still can float
.
tomorrow’s news is just today’s
as read and heard and seen
every story nuanced and massaged
to keep people balanced
on knife-edge of fear
nothing different from past years
.
without the news boring into our minds
without the thud and blunder
all the patronising advice
do you think we might see a bold head-line
one dawn that simply reads:
EVERYONE WORKING HARD
EVERYONE IS BEING NICE
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CLP 13/04/2021
On Light
impressive structure
floodlights stand proud of stadium
still waiting on green
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n.b. Television can never replace the real deal. Plan to be there or expect to be square (eyed)…whenever being there, or anywhere is allowed.
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CLP 09/04/2021
L3 (Day 66) Wembley – Virtually
There is nothing else in your life is there, that you do or have done, that brings every emotion like football can, is there?
No. No, I know.
Nothing.
But you need your mates.
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n.b. The wisdom of Kev.
There was a fine example of this today when every emotion from disappointment to frustration, from embarrassment to humiliation and finally anger, was felt during an abject display by Pompey broadcast from Wembley Stadium.
Well done, Salford City. The best team won.
The antidote, Pompey v Spurs FA Cup Semi-final, Wembley, 2010.
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CLP13/03/2021
On Ballet / Football
With grace, strength, agility
running, leaping, stretching
a staged performance
coached to perform
Our instrument is our body
The ball, decisions
freedom to play
without fear
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n.b. Quoting Carlos Acosta, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Tony Cliss, The Posh and The Alex. Football is unscripted drama, an art in itself.
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CLP 28/02/2021
On the Aerodrome
Jet engines idle
Holiday bookings increase
Hope is an aircraft
.
n.b. Just under ten months to Boxing Day football! No need to fly anywhere to be optimistic.
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CLP 27/02/2021
