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Flip Flops & Wind Chimes & Cup Final Tickets

Crispin Thomas

Friday, May 11th, 2007

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 flip flops and wind chimes
and old blokes with pig-tails
Ikea flat packs
Bank Holiday sales
they drive me mad
but I’ll take what life brings
for these are not top
of my least favourite things

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 leaders that take us
away on some goose chase
dumbing down news-readers
smiles in the right place
all of that packaging
mountains of waste
carbon emissions
destroying our space
chewing gum pavements
the four wheel drive driver
motorway services
cakes for a fiver
I would ban all of them
if I was king
but these are not top
of my least favourite things

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 i-pods on tube trains
show-offs on cell phones
post office queueing
and really loud ring tones
hunger and poverty
racist remarks
spam in my e-mail
and rubbish in parks
but there is one subject
that just isn’t cricket
the way that the FA
get rid of their tickets

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 first build a stadium
masses of tiers
somehow delay it
for years and for years
build it to hold
ninety thousand odd fans
but don’t tell the public
the ticketing plans
twenty five thousand
to both of the teams
for loyal supporters
the match of their dreams
never explaining
or lettting us know
just where the rest of them
suddenly go

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 grass roots commitments
the men at the top
FA associates
where does it stop
why not reward
all the freebies and stars
with seats that are empty
for the FA Vase
or even the friendlies
that England will play
but tickets for real fans?

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 that’ll be the day*

© CT07

Notes

* or go to e-bay….(alternative ending)..

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With sincere thanks to ourworldcup.co.uk for their kind support .

If you care about the distribution of Cup Final tickets to real fans and if you would like to see a fairer allocation and an open breakdown of exactly where the other ‘missing’ 40,000′ FA Cup Final tickets go, please join us with your support. If we can be told both clubs get 25,000 each , is it not fair to expect a little more detail on where the rest end up? We do not object to the sponsors and all the other clubs in the Football League who participate in the competition having ‘a few freebies’ , but if we are to repay other ‘grass roots’ sectors of the football community/family for their sterling efforts, why must it always be at the this particularly high profile match? Why not give them decent share of the spare tickets for the lesser attended FA Vase, FA Trophy , England friendlies, play-offs and schoolboy international ?
We therefore politely demand changes next year and a fairer allocation. To make a difference , whoever you support and for your voice and opinion to be heard

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/flip-flops-wind-chimes-cup-final-tickets/