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Ted Hughes and Crow at Turf Moor (To P. Maguire)

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 In that factory land, Ted Hughes country,
with its dour names, Oswaldtwistle, Bury,
Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Heptonstall,
the ‘Pool brought their hopes

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 of FA Cup glory, but with a second string team,
all the young lads, plus an out of sorts Hyppia
and an under-scrutiny Dudek,
versus the claret and blue’s best,
our manager’s gambit
destined to fail
in the January mud.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Did Ted’s ghost smile
as Crow worked his tricks,
when Burnley’s Chaplow centered
and Traore dithered, only to fumble
the ball into his own net?

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Christopher T. George

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/ted-hughes-and-crow-at-turf-moor-to-p-maguire/