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FREEDOM FOR FOOTBALL – NOW!

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 ok

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 so we’ve got a hillbilly refereeing for America

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 petrol crises,floods, foot and mouth,bse,

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 gms and monsanto

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 whales dying from naval sounds

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 man u bloody nited

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Taleban on the loose

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 a forty-story oil rig falling into the ocean in Brazil

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 thousands of animals being slaughtered in Europe

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 compensation for famers but not musicians,artists and poets –

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 global warming melting the first ice cap for 2 million years

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 and even worse hearsay at number one..

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 but fear not my friends

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 the sweetest goal is just before the whistle..

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 and remember well ..o children of the game..

16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 they can take away –

17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 seats from stadiums and affordable ticket prices

18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 britney spears – trainers – mobile phones -the internet

19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 24 hour shopping

20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 ali g -chris evans and ken bates

21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 terrestrial television – text messages

22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 the right to party on common land

23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 our endless rubbish in black bags

24 Leave a comment on verse 24 0 and every physical,spiritual, natural and political

25 Leave a comment on verse 25 0 right that was ever ours…

26 Leave a comment on verse 26 0 but- believe me

27 Leave a comment on verse 27 0 even if we can only play in polluted streets..

28 Leave a comment on verse 28 0 and write strange football poems with sticks in sand –

29 Leave a comment on verse 29 0 comrades -they will never take away our football !

Notes

For Stuart Butler – may my pen always be in the inspiring shadow of his boots.(Lend us a fiver Stu)….and for Dave the Webmaster for keeping this web-site and football poetry real!

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/freedom-for-football-now/