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Special Additives, Anfield, 1967

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 At Anfield for a reserves match,
we arrive in the club car park
in Uncle Bruce’s old black Ford Prefect.
We freeze in the empty stands till
half time, and the special treat:
mugs of tea laced with Johnnie Walker,
plus an eccles cake. Bruce’s merry
men: my Grandad, brother Bill the Mirth-
quake, myself, all jollied out, reinforced
for the second half, win or lose.

Notes

Ex-Liverpudlian, now resident in the United States, in Baltimore, Maryland, still a follower of Liverpool FC. My grandfather’s brother, Billy Matchett, was a Liverpool music hall comedian who styled himself “The Mirthquake.”

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/special-additives-anfield-1967/