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Poems tagged ‘Moscow Dynamo’

Lev Yashin

That blimmin Barry Davies
I didn’t need to know
That Lev Yashin had died with one arm
As an alcoholic in Moscow

As a kid he was my idol
That awesome man in black
He was one of the reasons
I put a goalie’s jumper on my back

It was during one of the World Cup ties
That I really got pissed off
You know the one with that stunning goal
Scored by Igor Belanov

Why did Davies tell us?
Did we really need to know?
That one of the greatest keepers of all time
Died destitute and low?

I wish he’d kept it to himself
That wasn’t the right time
To tell of Lev’s sad demise
And how he had declined

They talk of all these keepers
They come and then they go
But we will never ever forgot
The man in black for Dynamo

peace.

kevin

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