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The Goal That Saved A Season

Robert Clucas-Tomlinson

Monday, January 16th, 2006

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 The goal that saved a season woke a legend
From barren winters
In Roman amphitheatres.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 That shot,

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Drilled hard into a gasping net
From a trademark spot at the edge of the D,
Let sunlight in on Londoners faces

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Who dreamed again of midweek explorations
To post-Soviet wastelands, long Spanish beaches,
Grey German cities where nothing was left standing,
Auxerre again in a bitter wind.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 That goal,

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Placed a hero on a golden trail
To crescendos louder even than this
Tumultuous shaking of hearts and rafters.
His wonderland.

Notes

Arsenal 2 Bolton 1, May 96. That man Dennis again, sending us into the UEFA Cup with eight minutes of a transitional season remaining. At Milan, the previous season, he couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a banjo, but here he was on new turf, scoring a sizzler, finding his home.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-goal-that-saved-a-season/