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A pride of Lionesses (and all the other teams)

Parade of the pony-tails.

No wrestling in the box;

getting up and getting on with it.

Football as it should be played.

 

Showing the men how to entertain,

putting them to shame.

The spirit of sport. Someone

should have a word with them. 

 

All those young girls cheering goals,

singing Football’s Coming Home.

I’m not being leery - I hope -

but the game just got beautiful again.   

 

 

◄ Watching England with Carol Ann Duffy

1976! ►

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Greg Freeman

Tue 19th Jul 2022 12:59

Thanks for your comment, Russell. And for the Likes, the two Toms, the two Stephens, and Holden. The Lionesses play again tomorrow night! I should add that this poem also features on the excellent Football Poets site http://footballpoets.org/poems/a-pride-of-lionesses-and-all-the-other-teams/

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Russell Jacklin

Sat 16th Jul 2022 13:39

enjoyed the match for the same reasons

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