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Sunderland 0 – 2 Everton, FA Cup QF 2011-12

Simon Moore

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Earlier, office-bound on a web-skim,
A Jonathan Wilson piece suggested
Pace Billy Beane, that stats once digested
Offer thin explanation of Post-Bruce wins;
The piece gave succour to those who think
That current football discourse, chalk-boarded
And numberfied, is of passion denuded,
Exchanging emotion for geeky metrics.
Which is not to say, sir, you’re not a dick.
Are players quantum entities, to be
Both middle & wing simultaneously?
What does ‘shove it’ mean? I know James Maclean’s
Name you know, any others? At seventy
Mins I’ll snap: pedant you up, hard & quick.

Notes

Hello there, I have a site called sonnetreviews.tumblr.com, where I quite often review football matches – mainly games I go to at the Stadium of Light, but sometimes key games on TV too.

Editor’s note:

Welcome Simon!

Feel free to share your football sonnets here. 🙂

For the readers’ benefit…

Billy Beane is a former US Baseball player, now executive, who was portrayed by Brad Pitt in the movie ‘Moneyball’.

Beane’s application of statistical analysis on players, known as sabermetrics, is the basis of the notion of ‘Moneyball’.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/sunderland-0-2-everton-fa-cup-qf-2011-12/