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The Hand of God

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 After just one replay of what himself will call
‘the Hand of God’, Colin Boyce from Walsall

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 has already seen enough and blusters out
from his cousin’s house to the hot

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 and humid streets of the fervidly Loyalist
Ballybeen Estate, where a short chiming burst

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 of ‘O Sole Mio’ brings children out from cut-throughs
to queue for pokes with chocolate sauce;

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 and by the time that Colin asks for
a strawberry Cornetto, Diego Maradona

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 has left the Terries – Butcher and Fenwick –
scrabbling on the turf, and all but won it.

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-hand-of-god/