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Profit and (yet more) loss

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Winning at the bank while losing on the pitch
Results are poor but the owner’s rich
Beware false profits on the Tyne
They only worship the bottom line

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 But 30 million in the black
With relegation rivals will cut no slack
Remember this, come the next defeat
You can’t tie ribbons to a balance sheet

Notes

A few words on the day that Newcastle United, firmly anchored second from bottom in the Premier League, proudly announced to the world they had made a £30million profit. Only in modern football does such institutionalised failure reap such grotesque reward.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/profit-and-yet-more-loss/