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Archive for December, 2002

The Best Game Ever with the Best Players Ever

Joint goalies could be Lieutenant Stewart, Of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, And his anonymous German pal, “He toured Britain last year with the Leipzig team and beat Glasgow Celtic 1-0… We arranged Boxing Day from 2-4pm for a football match. This, however, was prevented by our superiors at HQ.” At number 2 will be […]

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POETS X1

POETS X1 In goal, I would place Caedmon, For if any Viking made a raid upon His goal with a shoal of longboats, He would repel them with Anglo-Saxon wit And make them flit. At full back, Percy Bysshe Shelley could welly The ball past Castlereagh and well away From danger too, And so prevent […]

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Top X1

Thanks for Gordon Banks and Yashin was smashin’, (And feline, too; a hint of the animal, as well as madness, Is appealing in a goalie, don’t you think?) But the name that I beg is that of Harry Gregg, Who went back into the aeroplane at Munich in 1958, And pulled out the injured; No-one […]

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Different Game Altogether

Hope you’ll forgive me this little indulgence : Had this one on the back burner for a while : it started out as a paean to a Gaelic Football match here in Ireland, but then the soccer tie-in became more obvious. It’s still very relevant at time of posting (written early August 2002, posted early […]

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TOP XI – The Greatest Team Ever Told..On Paper (apart from Melchester Rovers)

eleven men inside my head and each one true and bold make up our team on paper the greatest ever told – whose keeper sat and sometimes stood as steadfast as a mast between the posts young BUDDHA smiled as ev’ry ball flew past and celebrated ev’ry goal as if it were a party and […]

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