Month: June 2018

Summer of Sixty Six – Part Twelve

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Now the excitement is mounting

Who can deny

But the signs are quite subtle

And not as you’d think.

 

Merchandising’s not yet born

There’s no cars bearing English flags

Or for that matter German

But TV and papers are full of the game.

 

It’s in the shops

On everyone’s lips.

There’s World Cup Willie cups and bits

But barely a sign of replica kits

And only ever worn by kids.

 

Flags came out but mostly at matches

And the flag of choice is the Union Jack

With barely a sign of red on white;

St. George’s Cross, the cross of hurt.

 

The day is soon here

The game begun

The TV gathers

Everyone.

 

We watch with neighbours from down the hall;

Ugo his dad and his

German mother.

Tension mounts with the familiar chant:

Clap, clap

Clap, clap, clap

Clap, clap, clap, clap

England!

 

The Germans score first

Through Helmut Haller

It’s the first time England

Have been behind.

 

But on 19 minutes

We’re right back in it

Moore with a cross

A header from Hurst

And it’s one apiece.

 

We’ve waited so long

The time goes quickly

But half time comes

With no more goals.

 

One one, all even.

The first half over

We don’t know yet

What’s still to come.

Vehement Triolet

It’s hard to be too vehement

When writing formal triolets

They can be sincere, of clear intent

But it’s hard to be too vehement.

You can be quite clear and say what’s meant

But structural rules must still be met

It’s hard to be too vehement

When writing formal triolets.

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Summer of Sixty Six – Part Eleven

Time to forget the ‘argie bargie’

And move on to a match

That was far more worthy.

90,000 held in thrall

As England take on Portugal

England’s defence is sorely tested

But still that defence has not been bested.

Half an hour in

We mount an attack

And truth to tell

It starts from the back.

Wilson passes it forward to Hunt

A shot from him

Is stopped by the keeper

But Charlton’s there

To knock it back in.

The crowd noise swells

With waves of emotion

And ten minutes to go

We rise as one nation.

A shot from Peters

Gets charged down

But it’s Charlton again

Who hammers it home.

Three minutes later

And the other Charlton

Responds to a moment

Of sheer desperation.

As a header from Torres

Makes for the net

Big Jackie Charlton

Puts it out with his hand.

So Eusabio scored

With a penalty blast

And England’s defence

Is breached at last.

But the match was over

The game had been won

Time to bring

The Germans on!

Thanks for sticking with this. Building to our climax now…. And our cameo role in the saga.

Vehemently

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Summer of Sixty Six – Part Ten

Next up for England was Portugal

And that phenomenal striker: Eusebio.

He was the winner of the golden boot

Nine goals through all the tournament.

He scored two goals against Brazil

Four  against Korea

Coming back from three nil down

To win the game 5-3.

So this was the team

That we would play next

What could we expect?

Who do you think will

End on top?

He just keeps scoring

Can we make him stop?

Summer of Sixty Six – Part Nine

Elsewhere in the tournament

The Germans went through

4-0 they won their game

But quite a to do.

Uruguay finished with only nine men

Two down the tunnel

So all over then.

There’s mounting excitement

Round Wickrath by then

But the rivalry’s unspoken.

You must understand

As we build to that match

That we lived side by side

But wouldn’t mix much.

Before we go further

I ought to explain

That we travelled a lot

Each place felt the same.

Every place a cLike our Aldershot home

Rheindahlen,

where we went to school was big as it got,

Joint Headquarters for Allied Troops.

We’d bus there from Wickrath

Most every day

But only meet one German

As we went on our way.

We’d wait till everyone

Was on the bus

Then someone we’d say,

‘Alles Farah’

And he’d drive us away.

So we hardly saw Germans

And spoke to them less.

There’s a story about this

That still makes me cross

Of how at school

When they gave us a ‘choice’

They made me learn Latin

No German at all.

So what German I learned

I picked up here and there

Or got out of comics

And stories of war.

So think back to our leisure

When we’re kicking a ball

It’d just all us English

No Germans at all.

Epiphany

Epiphany – a eevelation

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Summer of Sixty Six Part Eigh

Next up was a game

That should have been cleaner

That infamous game

Against Argentina.

Alf at the end wouldn’t 

Let them swop shirts

The story goes Ramsey got shirty

The tackling too rough

And the tactics plain dirty.

Rattin went off 

For abusing the ref

It took them ten minutes

To get the guy off.

Alf called them ‘animals’

And got in hot water.

But, despite the kerfuffle

And mighty great fuss

1-0 to the English 

The win went to us.

1-0 was sufficient

One goal would do.

But who was it scored it?

I’ll tell you who.

Greavsie was injured

As I’ve told you before

So the scorer that day

Was the famous Geoff Hurst.

Of whom more to follow.

A Possibilty

Possibly, improbably

You’ll maybe fall

in love with me.

 

I’ll love you

And you’ll love me

Life will be sheer poetry.

 

Possibly, incredibly

The likes of you

Will fall for me.

 

I’ll clap my hands

I’ll dance with glee

If such a thing

Should ever be.

 

 

 

 

POSSIBILITY

Possibility? Maybe…

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