Nostalgia: A Snapshot of 1955
¶ 1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 On Sundays after tea we kicked a ball
¶ 2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Around outside until it got dark in the street,
¶ 3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Maybe listened to the wireless for an hour
¶ 4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 (“Take it from here” or “Journey into space”).
¶ 5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 But tonight I curled myself around a book,
¶ 6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 The “Big Book of Football Champions 1955”
¶ 7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 In front of the fire. England versus Spain,
¶ 8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 At the palatial home of FC Real Madrid.
¶ 9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Evocative names – Lofthouse, Matthews, Wright
¶ 10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 Duncan Edwards playing in front of Roger Byrne,
¶ 11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 And Chelsea’s Bentley (scorer of the goal).
¶ 12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 But the score for me was neither here nor there.
¶ 13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 It was the crowd,
¶ 14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 The crowd I saw, soaring.
¶ 15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 Someone took a photo behind the goal
¶ 16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 Of a blonde Yorkshireman called Albert
¶ 17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 Quixall, his gaze going heavenward
¶ 18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 As the ball flies up into the higher realms
¶ 19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 Above the grada, the gradería, the tribuna mayor
¶ 20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 Where the aficionados gaze down like emperors
¶ 21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 Making opulent cigar-gestures, and their smoke
¶ 22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 Is borne aloft into the Castillian sky,
¶ 23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 While we watch fixtures trudging through the rain
¶ 24 Leave a comment on verse 24 0 And peer round pillars beneath corrugated roofs
¶ 25 Leave a comment on verse 25 0 On English grounds.
¶ 26 Leave a comment on verse 26 0 I close the book quietly
¶ 27 Leave a comment on verse 27 0 And dream of Spain.
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