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Water and Football

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Water and football
Thirst is the paradigm perhaps
But water influences football
In more ways than one
Tom Finney’s The Splash
Diouf spitting
Turf Moor’s mud mire
Players soaked in sweat
The biblical blood of passion
And injustice
And most of all the referee as God:
“Rain stopped play”
“Match abandoned rain on the pitch”
“Match postponed due to flooding”
Noah puts his players back on the coach
And one by one the fans trudge home.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/water-and-football/