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Football with TV Subtitles for the Deaf

Graham Salter

Monday, July 13th, 2026

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Yes. It’s the Sensational Fee for World Cup, with forty-eight competing nations, three hosed countries, and a welcome break for re-monetization.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 The England game, held up for an hour due to Sevilla Storms, starts in a constant car-coffonee of sound in the Azteca fortress.
Ah, but disaster strikes! A wild challenge by Jarrell Quansah, and a straight wrecked car.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Now, with England under Prussia, Kane gives away a penalty. Sky cameras give us a drone’s eye view of the resulting sputnik.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 And as we watch in the tequila sunrise, Jordan Pickford faces a barrage of shots. But the Mexicans cannot get it over the lion.
Despite the front-a-cat-must fear, full of raw emulsion, England maintain a cool veneer, and go on to set up a quart-of-vinyl against Norway.
And we say Good Luck for the future to the battling Tree Lines!

Notes

Comment: Have you noticed how the subtitles on TV don’t always get it right, and sometimes throw up funny mis-hearings? This is how I imagine James Joyce, of “Finnegan’s Wake” fame, might have put together a report on the England-Mexico match.

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/football-with-tv-subtitles-for-the-deaf/