STICK
stick to football Gary
and
over and above that
stick to your job
(not down
the left
wing but
finisher in
the middle)
stop
sticking it to
all those true
Britons, guardians
of the long
ball game
who never won
a sweaty sock or
dinged
shin pad
no thought
of golden boots and
golden goals
won
against Beckenbauer’s
band, Maradona’s
mob
serious rivals, experts
in dishing out
national
humiliation
nor
are they ever
likely to, spending their
careers on the pitch
like demented ducks
lacking
all
sense of the game, worse
than headless
chickens
scoring goal after goal
after crazy own goal
from
every outrageous angle
and somehow
always what
is contrived to be
a totally illogical
offside position