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Bruised muscles and broken bones

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Bruised muscles and broken bones
Discordant strife and futile blows
Lamed in old age, then crippled withal
These are the beauties of football.

Notes

Anonymous, 16th Century, translated from Old Scots. As quoted in “The Ball – Discovering the Object of the Game” by John Fox.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/bruised-muscles-and-broken-bones/