If you're only prepared to meet the bastards halfway

how can you ever say you've won?

You haven't even drawn.

You've only called halftime,

after which they'll have moved the goalposts

(again!), dug deep pits across the pitch

and fudged the rules of the game.

They'll have planted a spy on your team too.

 

No, if you want to stand any chance of winning

you'll have to plan well, then drop the bastards

as soon and as hard as you can; you'll have to

hound and harry them, strip them of their weapons

and kill those collaborators on your own team.

Then you must repurpose the pitch

as a park, burn the goalposts

and hang the referee (he'll be in their pay too.)

 

Then start a new game,

from scratch, with just the one team

and decide on the rules between you all.

 

And last but not least, forget you'd ever

played the game any other way.