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When Football Stops

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Now’s the time
when football
stops on the pitch.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Now’s the time
when football
stops on the telly.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Now’s the time
when the parks
go quiet.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Now’s the time
the grass
starts recovery.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Now’s the time
my to do list gets sorted.
Tidy under the stairs,
old shoes get booted.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Make hollandaise sauce,
buy a horse, rearrange
the tablecloths.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Now’s the time
I don’t travel.
No Birmingham, or
away to Newcastle.

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 No M6 to M40 interchange
hassle. No video assistant
referee panels.

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Loads to do
in the coming weeks,
before the transfer window
opens in fourteen sleeps.

Notes

That glorious couple of weeks between the end of the season and the start of the transfer window, when ‘normal’ life can return.

e.g. the final round of fixtures in the 2022-2023 English Premier League season will be held on Sunday 28 May 2023…the 2023 English football summer transfer window runs from 14 Jun to 1 Sep 2023”.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/time-when-football-stops/