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Minnow Mania

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 The early rounds of the FA Cup
look so frenetic,
but the scale and the range
make it dramatic,
turn it poetic.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Hallam or Irlam
will play
Thackley or Goole, while
City of Liverpool
or Penistone Church
will play
Prestwich Heys or Bootle.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Padiham or Silsden
will travel to
Clitheroe, while
the towns of
Belper and Leek
will meet toe to toe.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 I could go on…

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Some cracking names
I’ve never heard before.
I do hope Hereford Lads Club
get to meet Wolverhampton Casuals.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 And Coventry Sphinx
draw Leicester Nirvana.
A better tale of two cities
with less Midlands melodrama.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 I’m still waiting for Charlton v Histon
like Forfar 4 East Fife 5 and
Lillee c Willey b Dilley
one day, they’re all going to happen.

Notes

Inspired by the early rounds of the FA Cup and the Joe Morris poem ‘The FA Cup in September’.

Thanks to Guy Lamming for some of the words.

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/minnow-mania/