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The Kingz and I (An Epitaph)

Al Galbraith

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Why did God make me a Scottish football fan?
and a Kingz supporter?

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 You are by far the worst football team I have ever loved
and by far the team I have loved the worst

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 When you’re gone maybe I’ll throw it in
and give in to kids and being fat
(and pretending to give a damn about rugby)

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 but till then
bring on your best wretched game One More Time
and let the old times roll

Notes

The Kingz are New Zealand’s only professional football team, playing in the Australian national league blah blah blah. They were started in 1999. In the four seasons since, they have repeatedly broken their fans’ hearts and gradually ground to a miserable financial halt (Death throes currrently in full swing). I blame the fact that the media are a bunch of rugby-loving dunder-heads, that our chairman is a prat, and that god hates me.
Along the way they collected a small following of the far-from-home, football-obsessed and a few nutters. Long may the memories last.

editors note :
one or two ‘colloquialisms’ re-worded
but nice to see a poem all the way from New Zealand

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-kingz-and-i-an-epitaph/