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A New Age Of Football Politics

Kyle Norbury

Thursday, October 29th, 2015

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Two games, two terrible governing bodies representing the nation,

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Both are subjective, need some perspective and don’t include the entire population,

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Football, an ideological agenda led by much-scrutinised leaders amongst other boss-men,

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Politics, a competitive game run by men, followed by men, made ludicrous by men,

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 They’re tribal games, the majority born either red or blue, you don’t choose,

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Either Manchester United or Manchester City, Labour or Tory,

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 It’s a bitter oppositional dispute in politics, it’s a rivalry for bragging rights in football,

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 In the Blue corner, Man United always have been and are the most successful,

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 The dominant Manchester team play in red but are just like the political Blues,

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 Manchester City once represented only the working class, but that’s changing rapidly,

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 One old-fashioned and old, the other newly new, liberated lefties- a tense battle of sheer fierce velocity,

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 The people are hate-ridden and divided but United in the fact they live in the same City,

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 Jeremy Corbyn is the Louis Van Gaal of the cut-throat ‘political landscape’,

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 Louis Van Gaal is the Jeremy Corbyn of the main competitive men’s game,

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 Some say he’s a thinking man, others say he’s a mad man,

16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 He may have his draw-backs but he’s a good, honest football fan,

17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 Love him or hate him, he makes the dull modern age fun and interesting,

18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 Like Pelligrini but footballing, like Cameron but far more enthralling,

19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 It was a defensive encounter, scrappy, punchy, but left neutrals snoring,

20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 It was politics combined with football- it was always going to be boring,

21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 It was either well contested contest or nothing but a bore draw,

22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 There are two sides to every coin, the two sides finding their new identities,

23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 The score stands at 0-0, level but a level ground at least, at last a level playing field,

24 Leave a comment on verse 24 0 It was even, equal, but a wholly different Reds vs Blues,

25 Leave a comment on verse 25 0 It is to be continued…

© Kyle Norbury

Notes

It is what it says. It says what it is. I would riff on Mancunians being down-to-earth and saying it like it is, unless most politicians, but you get the picture.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/a-new-age-of-football-politics/