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In the bleak mid-table (Feethams, 1999)

Tom Pine

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Four shining spades
shovel back the gloom:
the sometime sodden shroud
dusks the winter skyline

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 A huddle of stands
shirk the prying Skerne:
Quakers versus Stags,
in the bleak mid-table.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Gabbiadini glides and gleams
as an uninhibited stream
cuts across a misty moorland and
the ball simply follows

© Tom Pine, 2006

Notes

Feethams and its often-waterlogged pitch closed in 2003 and is now undergoing demolition, having been replaced by a new plastic stadium on the edge of town. Marco Gabbiadini became unhappy at the club and joined Northampton Town in 2001, but remains a Darlington legend. He scored a hat-trick against the Stags of Mansfield Town. For his third, he collected the ball out wide and beat two men before curling a shot just inside the far post from 20 yards. The match ended 5-1.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/in-the-bleak-mid-table-feethams-1999/