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The Premiership and the Depression

Elliott Conway

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 The Premiership, the promised land
It’s just two games away
For the Ipswich Town
It comes down to Wednseday

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Highbury, the Arsenal
Is where we’d get battered
Villa, I don’t think we’d beat
We’d probably be clattered

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Birmingham are one good side
To them we’d be mince meat
And Blackburn not a hope
We’d be well and truly beat

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 A nice trip up to Bolton
To lose to an old foe
Then down to the Valley
Charlton’d deal us a blow

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 We’d all go to the Bridge
And lose by more than ten
Chance of a tie with Palace
Maybe they’d score seven?

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 And oh, how we’d all laugh
When Everton get past
That same old feeble defence
Like Fulham would, the bast …

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Liverpool would give us
A right old rollocking
Man City, still in the north west
A bag of goals, a dollopping

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 United, well, where do I start?
We wouldn’t have a prayer
And up to the North East to see
A Boro win, s’not rare

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 We’d all stay up there overnight
As N’castle rip us up
A win against the Budgies would be good
The final of our cup

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 A visit down south next up
To see a Pompey win
Another overnight stop
How the Saints’d make a din

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 A short skip down the A12
An’ther loss at the Lane
One more trip left, at the Hawthorns
Defeat there, it’s all the same

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 So I end up asking myself
Do we want to get there?
Or could it not go so bad
Again we’d go to Europe?

© Elliott Conway

Notes

This week Ipswich face West Ham in the play-off semi-final second leg. Do we really want to go back? My heart says yes, my head says, no. We’re gonna get thumped.

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