LTLF Topic: poetry

The Ballad of Seven-Three

by , March 23, 2012
It was a dull and dreary night But not one week before When ’gainst opponents dressed in white The Forest failed to score Nor even make a half a chance To satisfy their fans And stood as if put in a trance To lose against the Rams [...]

Stranger than fiction

by , August 5, 2011
Sometimes in football it's no contradiction To say that fact is stranger than fiction, For no author could have ever prophesised The summer's events down on Trentside. No wonder they call it silly season As events unfold without rhyme nor reason [...]

Summer’s here

by , June 6, 2011
Summer’s here, hip-hip-horay! We’ve earned ourselves a long holiday After yet another year of lows and highs Thank God for no football in June and July [...]

Thirty-six; an ode to the unbeaten

by , March 8, 2011
Scunthorpe were the first in October ’09 Then we beat Newcastle live on Sky Next up at home were the Barnsley Tykes Who fell to a last-gasp Moussi strike [...]

An Ode to Darren Deadman

by , February 24, 2011
There’s a dead man walking, walking the pitch When there’s been contact his nose starts to twitch He’s got a sixth sense so he always knows For the least little thing his whistle blows [...]