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‘Disappointing’

mark merriman

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Overstated and overrated;
first coined by Sir Trev
( Brooking that is! )
who droned it nasally
in famous Essex boy tones.
Word now used by managers
and players alike to
analyse yet another
abject display.
So hackneyed it’s
become a cliche;
on a par with other
terms: nice springs to mind!
Word wheeled out by
co-commentator to describe:
striker’s glaring miss,
keeper’s comic capers,
journeyman midfielder’s misplaced pass,
defender’s shanked clearance
when under no pressure whatsoever.
Why can’t they
say it like it is?
That striker needs twenty
chances to score one goal.
The keeper couldn’t catch a cold.
That midfielder’s even more
useless than he was five years ago
and he was total shite then.
The defender’s a complete liability.
As for the team itself where do you start?
No football, just hoofball;
utterly bereft of ideas;
more passion in an episode of
‘Strictly Come Dancing’,
more excitement in the half-time Bovril;
like watching paint dry only
worse, much worse.
An insult to the shirt;
I could rant on in the same
vein as Psycho,
but at least he wouldn’t
use ‘disappointing.’
So ‘disappointed?’
Not me!
Depressed, devastated, despairing
hacked off, gutted, sad maybe.

© mark merriman sept 2004

Notes

My team, Swindon Town, had a massive relegation six pointer against Hartlepool at the County Ground today yet it looked ( at least in the first half ) that some of the players couldn’t be arsed. I want my team to play like it really matters and I certainly don’t want to hear that those same players and the manager are ‘disappointed’ when I turn the radio on after the game!! I don’t want my team to be relegated, but…………

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/disappointing/