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Bitter Blue

ap staunton

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Been on the buildings for thirty odd year ,
moving along the South Coast ,
Folkestone , Dover , Hastings , Eastbourne , Cuckmere
but always a Blue , was my boast .
Ended up in Brighton and met me Missus,
moved out of the caravan and into a flat ,
started to become civilised , doing pub quizzes ,
kissing and cuddling and all of that .
Down on the South Coast , business was booming
for all the fat cats , thanks to Maggie Thatch
but I could see black clouds on the horizon , looming
every time I said ” I’m off to the match …..”
A couple of kids later and it was ” Where you goin’?
Youre not leaving me here looking after these two ….”
So I toed the line , to keep the status quo in ,
became the thing that I dreaded , an armchair Blue .
No more scaling the walls at Goodison Park ,
like against Bolton in the 77 Semi
or using forged tickets with no watermark ,
even hung up my turnstile shutter jemmy .
No more necking ale in Munich
or filling me clogs in Rotterdam ,
or taking the mick out of the Nordic
all Red scarves and haircuts from Wham !
Now me lad’s old enough to follow the cause ,
though he looks and acts like Slim Shady ,
while I’m down here , stuck with her indoors ,
every fortnight he visits ” The Old Lady ” .

Notes

the old lady is Goodison Park
Editor Note:
Welcome to Football Poets. We’ve a few Toffee poets on here.
Some powerful straight down the line fan imagery here ap and thank you for keeping it clean mate. More please. And do check out our Football Poets on Facebook page at www.facebook.com/FootballPoets if you are on Fbook.. Will try and do sdoething ewity this image-wise.

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