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Claret and blue vintage on Tyneside

joe morris

Tuesday, November 26th, 2024

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Finally the spell is broken
The witchcraft no longer present
Claret and blue vintage on
Tyneside
West Ham conquer the Newcastle blues
The drought lifts
The goal scoring famine over
Some of us were expecting
A comprehensive trouncing
The thrashing of a lifetime
Because the decline and fall
In the East End
Seemed to be darkening
Indefinitely
The skies over the London Stadium
Assuming funereal colours
Sepulchral grey
Then dropping into the murkiest pit
Of lonely gravestones of one
Defeat another defeat
But last night on a wintry night
Among the Gallowgate roar
And the Blaydon Races
The black and white stripes
Were flummoxed by a rich bouquet
Of red Hammers wine
West Ham flaring back into life
Once hovering in the dungeons
Of the bottom down and out
Hanging doom and laden
Over the relegation trapdoor
Now where have you seen and
Heard that one before?
Back in the bad old days
of Avram Grant
Who never smiled
None could blame him
West Ham
Tumbling into the Championship
For a while
West Ham stranded and marooned
On a desert island
Far out in a lagoon of woe
Then there was Gianfranco Zola
Genius festooned all over Stamford Bridge
Like a glorious Italian fresco and mosaic
But when Upton Park came calling
Zola became an author of disaster
Now Lopetegui, Spanish
Sweet as yet another bottle of sangria
But now it all appeared sour
Bland, dull, empty and desolate
Pellegrini mark two
Or so they said
But last night Julen pulled
A genie from the lamp
First Tomas Soucek
Our favourite Czech mate
Moved the knight towards
The king
A bullet of a header
From a perfect corner
Opened the Irons account
Then Pacqueta found Jarrod Bowen,
Lucas, we knew you could do it
England’s new kid on the block
Shifted the ball cunningly
Square to onrushing
Aaron Wan Bissaka
Clubbed the ball with a
Laser guided missile
Low shot flies past Pope
The Vatican silenced
Off the post
Victory sealed for our
East End favourites
Now for Arsenal on Saturday
We daren’t go anywhere
Rash predictions
After six of the best
From the firing on
All cylinders Gooners
Last season.
Still, West Ham
Keep the faith
And never give up

Notes

At long last a West Ham victory to savour at Newcastle United last night. It’s taken a while but it was worth the wait.

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