I won’t be watching the World Cup this year, Because, Well it’s obvious ~ Qatar 2022 Haiku by Paul H Tubb . Saturday 3rd September 2022 FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round Eastbourne Town 0 Hanwell Town 2 Matthew MacKenzie 69, Kain Adam 90+2, Referee:- Chris Wilks. […]
The Frog . Be kind and tender to the frog And do not call him names As ‘Slimy Skin’, or ‘Polly Wig’, Or likewise ‘Ugly James’ Or ‘Gap-a-grin’ or ‘Toad-gone-wrong’, Or ‘Billy Bandy-knees’: The Frog is justly sensitive To epithets like these. No animal will more repay A treatment kind and fair; At least so […]
Saturday 1st February 2020Sky Bet EFL League 2 Swindon Town 2 Eoin Doyle 20, Hallam Hope 45+2 Exeter City 1 Randell Williams 34 Referee:- Kevin Johnson. ……………………………………………Attendance:- 13,095Admission:- OMGDS £17.00 (£25). …………………………….Programme:- £3.00The last time I was at The County Ground was for a Premier League match in 1993. Swindon drew 2-2 that day with […]
Touchline Shouting Touchline shouting, that’s all I ever hear, I’m so confused and filled with fear. I’m only ten years old and football should be fun, But with all this noise I don’t know which way to run. “Get back in defence!” my manager shouts. Dad shouts, “Get up front and deal with these louts!” […]
In honour of my first visit to Larkhall Athletic, and in remembrance of fallen soldiers from The Great War, I re-produce this poem was which part of the official programme for their match against AFC Totton (see below). The Lark From Wrath-red dawn to wrath-red dawn The guns have brayed without abate; And now the […]
Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion Now winter nights enlarge This number of their hours; And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine, Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine. Now yellow waxen lights Shall wait on honey love While youthful revels, masques, […]
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. (from ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost) Monday 7th January 2013 Baker Joiner Midland Alliance k.o.:- […]
Holiday Jinx Decided to take in a week’s holiday in a cottage just outside Colne, Lancashire, at a place a little indelicately named Foulridge. We had rented a cottage called “Toad Hall”, although the only connection with toads was a small stone effigy outside the front door. I had hoped that I might get five […]
