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The REAL Questions of Sport

Arnold Coleman

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Think: what are the answers
to the hardest questions that could possibly be ?
Like, would England have won the World Cup
if Banks had passed up that beer for a nice cup of tea ?
And that if only it had been Osgood
And not Astle that was put out there by Ramsey?
Would City have won the title back in ’72
If Marsh had stayed on the bench, and they’d stuck with Summerbee ?
Would it have been sir Colin Bell
If Martin Buchan hadn’t clattered into his knee ?
And how far would George Best have gone
if he’d been chronically incapable of ingesting alcohol ?
Would Gazza be England’s best ever
If he hadn’t been such a silly beggar ?
And Q.P.R. the first London team to lift the European Cup
If, against Norwich at home, they hadn’t slipped up ?
Alas and woe: we can never ever know
the true questions of sport.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-real-questions-of-sport/