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Anti Football

mark merriman

Sunday, April 21st, 2013

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 New brand of footie invented
in the early nineties by
Cambridge manager Beck:
ball blasted high into the sky
or fired towards the touchline
where it could be dried
and then launched like an exocet
into the box for a giant
to head goalwards.
The Premiership Potters from Stoke
have become exponents,
throw-ins becoming an art form:
step forward messrs Delap, Shotton, Huth
in their attempts to find the forehead
of a fellow skyscraper.
Stevenage gaffer Westley is clearly
not an advocate of the beautiful game:
his players 6’4″ to a man,
intent on kicking anything that moves
even the ball…….sometimes.
What would old Big ‘ead have said
about all this malarkey?
‘Young man, keep passing it
on the grass!’

© mark merriman september 2004

Notes

Watching certain teams play a ‘direct’ style does nothing for me. It really does feel like a totally different game.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/anti-football/