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Euro 2024: Sufferfest!

U Rowe

Wednesday, July 10th, 2024

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 I could not sleep
I could not work
all this pent-up nervousness
just drove me berserk!

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 And so I tried listening to Bob Dylan….
“the nerves, they are a-changing”
yes indeed they are…. escalating upwards!

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 And so I tried listening to Queen….
“We are the Champions, we are the…..”
no,no,no, too soon, don’t want to jinx the lads!

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 And then I tried listening to the Stones….
“I can’t get no, oh no, no, no”
“Hey, hey, hey, that’s what I say”
“I can’t get no, satisfaction…”
And confusingly, we didn’t, 
even though
we’ve reached the semi!!!

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 I tried to get all contemporary, by listening to Taylor Swift….
“I could build a castle out of all
the bricks  they threw at me!”…..
oh yes, how that would truly resonate
with the much maligned, “Garrison” Southgate!

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 So, as the kick-off draws near
we’re filled with hope, yet filled with fear
which we’ll doubtless rebuff
with copious amounts of beer!

Notes

A duet from U Rowe & Apollo Gees!

Obviously with apologies to all the aforementioned artists.

The title?
Outside of football, as a covert Mamil, my biggest hero is Mark Cavendish.
So it has been an incredible week for the cycling fraternity, where Mark has finally broken Eddy Merck’s record of individual stage wins at the Tour de France.

The title was gleaned from listening to Mark being interviewed afterwards, when he was commenting on his desire to make it to the very last day of this year’s tour, to which he will have to suffer every single day through the arduous stages of the mountains!
“a real sufferfest!”

Chapeau!!!

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