The football scores
¶ 1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 The early April afternoon was glorious.
¶ 2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 The daffs were out, I felt Wordsworthian.
¶ 3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 You’d come down from York to look
¶ 4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 at houses. We caroused that evening
¶ 5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 with old friends in the Railway Tavern –
¶ 6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 they used to serve a lovely drop there,
¶ 7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 now apartments handy for the station –
¶ 8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 talking football as usual,
¶ 9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 about our bankrupt team’s past triumphs,
¶ 10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 and how we’d probably never fight in a war.
¶ 11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 Went back to your parents’ place for coffee.
¶ 12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 Your dad had seen placards in the tube
¶ 13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 ordering Paras to return to Aldershot.
¶ 14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 We switched on the BBC at midnight;
¶ 15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 Argies 1, England 0. Where in the world …?
¶ 16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 And then, heads swimming,
¶ 17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 the final straw; Chelsea football club
¶ 18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 had been bought for £1 by the vice-chairman
¶ 19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 of Wigan. For one beer-befuddled moment
¶ 20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 I wasn’t sure which news was more serious.
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