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FOOTBALL
With Apologies to Oliver Twist
Football, glorious football.
Don't care what it looks like -.
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Fred Babbin
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Soccer: My Lover Is A Football Man
SITWOL-Soccer Is The Way Of Life by Laijon Liu
Apology to all SITWOL readers:
All my soccer works, 'SITWOL-Soccer Is Way Of Life', is currently under the contract of my Publisher, Publish America, and now it's purchasable from amazon.com
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Laijon Liu
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Football Freefall
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Michael Emine
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(Footie Widow)
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I've been abandoned,
The football is on,
Tension mounts,
With each roar
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Lynda Robson
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The Woman Five Doors Down
The woman five doors down tells me her son Ted is the best player in the school football team
And that one day he will play in an A.F.L. Grand Final and that more than once of late she's had this dream
Of watching him receive the Coleman medal for best on ground on football's biggest day
Watched by well over ninety thousand people who cheer him on with a loud hip hooray.
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Francis Duggan
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The Joy Of Their Laughter
The children are playing football in the park off of the street
The joy in their laughter it does sound so sweet
'Tis true youth is such a marvellous thing
Like the flowers of the fields that bloom lovely in Spring.
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Francis Duggan
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Young David The Under Fourteen
With the local football club he plays under fourteen
In their football colours the black, brown and green
He dreams in the A F L he will star one day
Against Australia's finest he will be picked to play.
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Francis Duggan
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Brendan Moynihan
He played football for Millstreet in his twenties
And he is one I readily can recall
Quiet spoken, down to earth and unassuming,
A powerful fellow over six foot tall.
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Francis Duggan
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The Teenager On His Bicycle
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Wearing brown shorts and a blue football jersey and with sneakers on his feet
The teenager on his bicycle he goes whistling down the street
The evening is warm and breezy the wind tosses his long brown hair
As he pedals near the sidewalk he doesn't have a care.
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Francis Duggan
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A Memory From 85
I've always thought that Gaelic Football was a grand and a sporting game
But after witnessing a match between Rockchapel and Kiskeam
Played in the Gaelic Playing Field half a mile from Knocknagree
The uglier side of Gaelic Football was all brought home to me.
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Francis Duggan