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Sleeping with the Cup

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 I’d have done it too,
after the champagne party,
the impossible win, coming back
from three goals down,
on the world’s biggest stage,
I’d have slept with the Cup, too!
Follow your dreams, Stevie, lad!
Never let them go. . .
never ever let them go!

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Christopher T. George

Notes

Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry revealed that Gerrard woke up with the European Cup in his bed.

“The cup ended up in Steven Gerrard’s bed last night, he wouldn’t let go of it!”

Team-mate Vladimir Smicer added: “The cup ended up with Stevie G in his room. His girlfriend wasn’t here, so he had the cup in his bed instead.”

“Gerrard could stay after Euro win.” BBC News May 26, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4578603.stm

Gerrard, 24, confessed: “I slept with the trophy in my room. I did not want to let it out of my sight. When someone took it away from me this morning, it felt as though somehow I had lost a part of me.”

The England midfielder hugged the priceless cup after a champagne party which fizzed till 5am at Istanbul’s Crown Plaza Hotel.

“Gerrard: I slept with Cup”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005240504,00.html

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/sleeping-with-the-cup/