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A Career of Two Halves

Mark Niel

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 So Beckham is doing a timeshare,
Playing for LA and Milan.
I think it’s a brilliant idea
Every player should follow his plan.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Wayne Rooney can timeshare with Watford;
Taste life outside the top flight.
Let’s see how flash his play is when
Away at Cardiff on a cold winter’s night.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Bring Ronaldo to Luton!
British football at it’s grass roots
And if, just once, he tried diving
Defenders would kick him out of his boots.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Imagine, every premiership Prima Donna
Timesharing with the game’s lower leagues,
Far away from the fame and the limelight
Just the football, training and fatigue.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Then, perhaps, at last they’d realise
They’re living every boy’s dreams,
And might learn a little humility
And lead lifestyles a little less obscene.

Notes

Written in 2009 when David Beckham started playing for Milan when the American season finished. Mark did a season as “Sports Poet Laureate” for BBC Three Counties Radio in 2009

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/a-career-of-two-halves/