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Poems tagged ‘Norwich City’

Norwich City’s Saviour

Jeremy Smith

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022

We turned up for the dance, but we didn’t stand a chance.
We leaked ‘em like a sieve, then lost the will to live.
We’re going down again, our season was so lame,
We hardly had a shot,  and we’re worst of the lot!

We’re up then down then up, and then we get beat up,
We’re down then up then down, we’re worse than Ipswich Town.
Delia she cooked our goose, the goose ran out of juice.
The faithful at the Carra, bid the PL ‘Sayonara’.

We need a saviour now, someone to man the prow,
Not like the bone-saw boys, the sport washing cowboys,
Just someone warm and kind, maybe a little blind.
We need a big investor, maybe just like Leicester.

So Saviour, where you be, just take us on your knee,
No need to be so wary, we’re just cute green Canaries,
We want a little dosh, so Watford may we squash
O please O please O please, we’re begging on our knees.

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Season 2019/2020 – Missing Presumed Lost

S B Ingle

Monday, April 13th, 2020

Days stretched into weeks
No football, at all
Football is just a game, say those who don’t get it
To us, it’s all we’ve ever known
the centre of everything we’ve planned
Friendlies, cup, home and away,
Life on the calender was H A AHA HAA – not laughing any more
it’s all H H H H H H H H H home home home
no win situation, no draw
just loss (no change there then Norwich City fans)
Stay home – easy when we’ve got live football on TV – but now?

It’s a contact sport, being a football fan
We know each other, every child, woman and man
Some fans, we know by name
Others are ‘the man on the end of the row’ (yeah, catchy)
or the bloke who sits behind Peter
but now they’re all absent friends

The people you used to work with
The one you talk Only Connect with
Old neighbours you sometimes bump into
Not-quite-strangers give you a nod, or a wave
Others you look out for, to give them space to cross your path
With their age, their crutches or frame
It’s football – of course they still came

The one with a glowering, granite face who taunts the ref
But when we score it’s like dawn breaking
Beaming, he hugs two rows, but, first, his dad

People from down our road
fellow sardines on the 1.15pm train
Those we went to school with
the ones who share our load
Good to see you, all right mate
How’s the missus, take care
People no longer here, in this life
Still always in the crowd

Yeah, course we’re all hooligans to some
But there’s only love here, never hate
People of all shirts, giving banter, taking bait
It’s all been snatched away till we don’t know when
Who knows what next, some we’ll never see again

Its changed us for ever, this vicious virus
Our lives have changed, and yeah it is only football, but I miss it
To end, I’m mangling words from Billy Ray Cyrus
It broke my heart, my achy-breaky heart
And I just think you fans will understand.

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Canaries creamed in season’s opener

Emdad Rahman

Sunday, October 6th, 2019

There’s something about Jumuah
When Salah hunts his prey
Six goals in five games
All this on a Friday

Grant Hanley scores the seasons first
As he slices Origi’s cross
Firmino turns provider
Salah adds his gloss

Virgil van Dijk from Salah’s cross
Origi heads to make it worse
Canny Pukki reduces the deficit
It’s time to break that second place curse

09 08 19

number7
© emdad rahman

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Norwich

Gacina Bozidar

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

Norfolk Breweries
Bavaria Breweries

Bayern and Norwich
met in Munich
long time ago

Yellow submarine was
constructed in Munich

Norwich won 2-1 at Bayern

Norfolk saw their canaries
becoming glorious

All Bird Flocks congratulated
the most singing brothers: The Canaries

All Bird Flocks
celebrated Norwich victory
at Bayern

The 11 Norfolk knights
showed the knighthood

The Premiership was
only one year old

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Barry Joy – One of Our Own – NCFC

S B Ingle

Monday, August 10th, 2015

He watched us lose, he watched us win
Supported us through thick and thin
Enjoyed the wins, shrugged off defeat
Enjoyed his season ticket seat

One of us, he loved the game
Whatever the score, he sang our City name
Then came the match only dreams could choose
Play-off Semi against Ipswich blues

We beat them over two legs this May
To reach the final via Wembley Way
We sang our hearts out for the lads
In our yellow and green, we waved our flags

Back to the big time after one season out
Our capacity crowd believe we’re in with a shout
That surreal Wembley final was such a thrill
Our best match of last season, beating ‘Boro two-nil

***

Like us, he cheered, he clapped, he sang
One of our loyal army of Canary fans
One of the good guys, now at rest
Heavens Dream Team only takes the best

No more your friendly face to greet
Sadly we mourn your empty seat
We’ll remember you as the green flag flies
As we stand and sing, ‘City ‘Til I die’ …

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