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Moore chews toffees

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 My early football memories fade
As they’re mostly of a monochrome shade

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 But there’s one that does not fade away
A cup-tie screened on ‘Match of the Day’

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 I hail from Ireland’s Northern zone
A schoolboy Forest fan alone

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Schoolmates torn ‘tween Leeds or United
To follow Forest, I had decided

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 So the Goodison Greats had come to town
Harvey, Ball and Sandy Brown

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 A quarter-final, beside the Trent
A game the crowd, could not have dreamt

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Ken Wolstenholme was there as well
The drama he conveyed so well

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 Ian Moore we asked, ‘What was the Storey?’
Would he be the man, to grab the glory

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Or would the Toffees, wrap it up
As early on, James Husband struck

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 By half-time Forest were second best
But they re-emerged, like men possessed

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 Two goals from Moore reversed the score
Cue a sea of scarves and a deafening roar

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 From end to end, the game it swung
Amid chanting fans, both old and young

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 But alas, an equalizer came
When Husband’s second, tied the game

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 As both teams rued their chances missed
There was to be a final twist

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 Moore’s third goal, it was heaven sent
As he headed home, at the third attempt

16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 The boys in blue, went on the attack
But hairy Hennessy, held them back

17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 3-2 the score – it finished then
‘Match of the season’, said Big Ken

18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 A hat-trick hero, in the Forest jersey
The holders were out – O Lord have Mersey

19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 The Blues would have no beer that night
Their faces, a paler shade of white

20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 The year was 1967
I was 8 years old and near wild heaven

21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 I watched all in black and white
Stayed up late – then to bed GOODNIGHT

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/moore-chews-toffees/