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A BORO SVENSATION?

George Kirby

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Football’s worst-ever secret has just been unveiled,
For McClaren the highest of heights has been scaled,
He’ll crack open the Bubbly and maybe Campari,
Having seen off the favourite: Big Phil Scolari.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 After months of bungling and great confusion,
The F.A. has arrived at the correct conclusion,
I suspect Steve was not a unanimous choice,
Now we have a McClaren and not a Rolls Royce.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 He is certainly not the entire nation’s darling,
But he brought us the Cup that was sponsored by Carling,
And few folk will doubt his ability’s been proven,
Should he bring back the UEFA Cup from Eindhoven.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 When the approach to Scolari was hastily rebuffed,
The F.A. should have told him to go and get stuffed,
Just imagine a German manager being someone foreign,
No: neither can I: and I’d bet my last florin. ***

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Those favouring a Brit must be totally delighted,
But we mustn’t expect miracles or be over-excited,
Results will determine the new manager’s fate,
Arsene Wenger may be waiting in two-thousand-and-eight.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 For so long McClaren was leading the field,
Ambitions of others was never concealed,
There was Big Sam and Pearce and Uncle Tom Cobbly,
For so long the ‘hot seat’ appeared awfully wobbly.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 At the Riverside this might be so hard to swallow,
And McClaren will prove a really hard act to follow,
So who, do you think, will most likely accede?
Could it possibly be a soon-out-of-work Swede?

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 The candidates’ list will be long, I feel sure,
And suggestions just now might be too premature,
We await therefore, eagerly, the Boro’s confirmation,
Will the announcement turn out to be an absolute SVENsation?

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Now he’s reached the position for which he has striven,
This footballing nation’s support must be given,
‘Good luck’ to McClaren, after the F.A. debacle,
May you go ever-upwards and make England’s team sparkle.

Notes

www.borobard.co.uk
*** For those of more tender years, a florin was a coin worth the
Equivalent of ten pence in today’s currency.

George Kirby

(04-05-06)

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/a-boro-svensation/