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‘Hapless’

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Early season optimism dispatched
as Town crash,
thrashed 5 nil by Gills.
Score line a millstone
round Wilson’s neck.
Players branded ‘hapless’
by unimpressed hacks.
Robins toothless in attack
and hopeless in defence;
rudderless on the pitch,
a ship washed onto the rocks.
But ‘hapless’? Hang about –
hapless means unlucky
and Town were lucky
(to quote an old cliche)
to get none.

Notes

Town 0 Gillingham 5. Gutted.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/hapless/