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    Jimmy Whelan posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago

    FITBA CYCLES

    It all begins with your Dad
    Following the team you adore
    An affinity with that special club
    That feeling when they score

    Teenage years you go with mates
    Singing songs and having laughs
    Travel the world to support
    Drinking beer and a few half’s

    Then you meet your girlfriend
    She tries to calm you down
    Wedding bells are on the horizon
    You have to save a few pound

    Saturday’s a day of shopping
    Out somewhere with the kids
    Your fitba days go missing
    Pub crawls are on the skids

    You can’t afford the tickets
    Money on bills and shoes
    Nothing was more important
    Than fitba and the booze

    Kids fitba becomes your life
    With Fun 4’s and 7’s
    Time you pause for breath
    Your kids are playing 11’s

    ‘Take us to the fitba’ Dad
    We’d really want to go
    ‘Ask your mother’, you reply
    You know that she’ll say No

    Time moves on, monies a plenty
    You’re back inside the stand
    Pride is bursting out you
    As you clutch your sons’ hands

    They ask if they can get a scarf
    Take a ‘selfie’ with the players
    Life is one fast moving cycle
    Thank the Lord for answering your prayers…….

    J.J. Whelan

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