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Do Some Of The Lads, Like A Bit Of A Drag?

kevin raymond

Monday, August 4th, 2008

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 It all went sort of pear-shaped
I thought it a bit of a joke
The day I found out, much to my dismay
That me football heroes smoked.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Our trainer had said “You’ll never run
Like The Little Bird (Garrincha) if you smoke”
It’s said Bobby Charlton loved to spark up one
So he sort of, gave us puffers hope.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Lev Yashin liked Sobranies
They didn’t do him no harm
Til Barry Davies spoiled the myth for me
Saying the great man had died destitute
And from cancer lost an arm.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 The great Dutch sides had thrived on fags
We’re told, it’s there in the football annuals
Johaan Cryuff with his anxious half time drags
Johnny Rep with his pack of Camels.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 In all them sepia pictures
Where the massive crowds touch the sky
There’s a haziness in the distance
Caused by Players, Weights and Woodbines.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Did Platini like a Gauliose
Does Henry prefer Gitanes
Would Zidane have had one on the glow
To ease pre match nerves in Spain?

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Did Juste Fontaine draw on a Disque Bleu?
He could have, I dunno
And did they affect his prowess
Or sharpness near the goal?

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 Did Der Bomber like a Lucky Strike
Or Der Kaizer roll his own
Perhaps twenty tabs a day might help sort
Newcastle’s Michael Owen?

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 You never saw yer idol in the papers
With a coffin nail on the go
So why did those football trainers
Try to tell us, way back then,
That our heroes never smoked?

© Kev 008

Notes

Always puzzled me, this. If you smoke, they used to tell us at school football training, you’ll never have enough puff (sic) to be half decent as a footballer.

Yet in the working class area and the era that I grew up in, almost everybody smoked!

Then I found out for meself as a younsgter, that (A) I loved a bit of a smoke meself and (B) that some of me idols were fond of a fag too, and it never affected their form.

So all that rubbish went right out of the window! Some of our truly great players(sic) have been smokers!

peace

kev

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