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Glory Days

Donal O’ Driscoll

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Liverpool Football Club
Love of my youth
I follow them still
But I’ll tell you the truth
People Talk about Tommo and Ray
But I’m too young to remember
The real glory days
Their last league title
I can barely recall
my only memory
A poster on the Wall
that was my big brother’s
He loved them too
My first taste of Glory
Was the cup in 92
2-0 the score
Sunderland Slain
I remember the excitement
But the next cup final brought pain
in 96, how hard we tried
Cantona scored late
I broke down and cried
But just before that
In the year 95
We won the league cup
I felt so alive
Another trophy at last
3 years was too long
Little did I realise
The next wouldn’t come tiil 01
But we made up for lost time
With 3 Cups in a row
When I think of it now
My face it still glows

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 I’ll tell you the truth,
I lapsed for a while
Life got in the way
The pool stopped making me smile
I was still a fan
But in the background
The love that I felt
It was not as profound
As what it had been
In my wee early teens
I let the side down
You know what I mean?
But after a while I got to realise
It wasn’t a game
It was some people’s lives
2005 I missed the second half
I had an important meeting
I’m not having a laugh
But as if to say
Here’s your second chance
The comeback happened
fans started to dance
When the meeting was over
I rushed back to the pub
The cheers they were flying
For this great Football Club
My short lived desertion
I hope they’ll forgive
The aftermath I’ll remember
As long as I’ll live
Now I’m slightly older
At age 25
I think back at lapsed love
and start to realise
They call it a sport
That’s only a name
To so many people
It’s more than a game
Now over in Ireland
That’s quite hard to feel
Then I went to Anfield
That ground was unreal
I’ve returned to the flock
The prodigal son
I hope this great club
can forgive what I’ve done
I’ll love it dearly
For the rest of my life
In triumph and glory
In Pain and in strife
I so hope Stevie G
Lifts the league trophy next May
Title number 19!
They’re Back!
Glory Days

© Donal O’ Driscoll 2008

Notes

I have been a Liverpool Fan for as long as I’ve been conscious about sports. They’re not quite as big in Ireland as they are on merseyside, but it’s close. My support reached fanatical proportions from about 92 until 97 or 98. Then however, as a late teen, Politics took the place of sport in my life. I still supported them, but somehow, sport seemed frivolous. In recent years however, the feeling has come back to me, it was always there I suppose.

This year I finally got to live my dream of coming to Anfield. It was unreal and brought home to me that to so many LFC is a way of life. Since that day, I have become perhaps a bigger LFC fanatic than ever. I regret that I wasn’t the best of fans for so long. Now, having seen not just the ground, but that beautiful city, I have a new dream, to live In Liverpool some day, or at least in the North West of England. Whether that dream comes true or not, I promise to not be a stranger to Liverpool or their amazing team.

Another reason for writing the poem, was my realisation that Liverpool FC (Or any club for that matter) shouldn’t just be a fickle fancy of youth, it’s for life. Even though, Champions league, 3 FA Cups, 3 League Cups and a Uefa Cup aside (not bad consolation prizes are they?) I can’t really remember the glory days (between the ages of 0 and 7 when we were winning all round us, I wasn’t exactly conscious of it), there is only one club I would ever support. It’s not just a team, it’s history, it’s passion, it’s Liverpool FC!

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/glory-days/