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The Ultimate Line.

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Were you surprised they fell away in the second half?
Where was the rhythm to sustain the line?

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Seaman,
Mills, Ferdinand, Campbell, Cole,
Beckham, Scholes, Butt, Sinclair,
Owen, Heskey.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 They might just have got away with:
Seaman,
Campbell, Beckham, Heskey, Cole,
Sinclair, Mills, Owen, Scholes
Ferdinand, Butt.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Or even;
Seaman
Sinclair, Beckham, Scholes,
Butt, Owen, Campbell, Mills
Ferdinand, Heskey, Cole.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 But how could they compete
with the soar,
the sprung rhythm
of the ultimate line:
Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho?

Notes

2002 World Cup poem, post-England defeat.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-ultimate-line/