Orange leather footballs in the snow
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Orange leather footballs in the snow,
when struck with force from some attacker’s toe,
would sting but you could never let it show.
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Arctic troughs could change the status quo
and games that went ahead would always go
with orange leather footballs in the snow.
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Orange leather footballs in the snow
have often laid a poor defender low
when suffering a point-bank, volleyed blow.
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Half-time Bovril, warming hands, sipped slow
would make the cheeks of chilly children glow
like orange leather footballs in the snow.
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Orange leather footballs in the snow
spent many matches pinging to and fro,
for anyone with any sense would know
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that snow-clad pitches always used to slow
the daisy cutters, so no-one kept low
those orange leather footballs in the snow.
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Yes, orange leather footballs in the snow
were conjured with by Greavesie, Best and co
at temperatures of five or six below,
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a normal sight, just forty years ago
yet nowadays, alas, you will see no
bright orange leather footballs in the snow.
Such a great poem Peter… more please great to find you here… best Crispin