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VIVE ZAPATISTA! VIVE EASTON COWBOYS! VIVE THORNCOMBE 2001! VIVE FOOTBALL ODDITY

Loyal Suppoeter

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2001

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 What football cries of freedom there have been to stir the blood!
Citizens! Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!
Workers Of The World Unite You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chains!
From Each According To Their Ability To Each According To Their Needs!
Peace, Bread And Land! Bread And Roses!
No Pasaran! They Shall Not Pass!
And now we add another cry to this historic list!
The Zapatista cry of resistance and selflessness!
Ya Basta! Enough Is Enough!
Enough of Globalisation and Conspicuous Consumption!
Instead, Enough Is Enough! Ya Basta!
No more First World Pax Americana and Things Are Us,
Instead, A World of Many Worlds, where Enough is Enough, Ya Basta!
No more multinational cowboy prospectors ripping up the earth for gold,
Instead the Zapatistas and the Easton Cowboys sharing the pitch for goals!
Solidarity Through Football! No Pasaran! They Shall Not Pass!
First World Ha Ha Ha! Ya Basta! Enough is Enough!
Solidarity, Comradeship and Collectivism Through Football!
Isn’t It Odd That That Should Be Considered Odd?
Vive Football Oddity, Thorncombe F.C. August 2001.

Notes

Best of luck with the tournament; starts August 23rd. Check out www.hemalimodha.co.uk/eastoncowboys Try and go! Stroud Football Poets on with the football writer, Simon Inglis.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/vive-zapatista-vive-easton-cowboys-vive-thorncombe-2001-vive-football-oddity/