Each team would somehow pick itself No boys were left upon the shelf No substitutions, sulks or shame If you showed up, you got a game. . Not 2-3-5 or 4-2-4 But 2-8-12 or even more Six centre-forwards, five right wings Was just the normal run of things . Lined up then in such formations […]
They have many a valiant hero, Remembered through the years: But never one whose name so oft Is named with loving tears. And his deed shall be sung by the cradle, And told to the child on the knee, So long as the dikes of Holland Divide the land from the sea! From “The Leak […]
Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green;— Willows whose Trunks beside the shadows stood Of their own higher half, and willowy swamp:— Farmhouses that at anchor seem’d—in the inland sky The fog-transfixing Spires— Water, wide water, greenness and green banks, And water seen— By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) . . . Wednesday 4th February 2015 Dutch […]
Silhouettes on a greyish day thick heavy grey sky above rainy fragrance all over no season today low hanging fog in a stew clear daylight a reaping hook on this eclipsed day by Elly Wouterse . . . Wednesday 5th February 2014 Dutch Eredivisie k.o.:- 7.45pm NEC Nijmegen […]
