"You think you're hard?"
Charlton v Palace
Me,cultured ; him smelly
Him malice
Me jelly!
Author notes
Charlton and Crystal Palace are South London football teams. It was based on a real incident in my stormy youth, when some bloke having started some abuse, and seeing me walking off, saw an opportunity to impress his girl-friend, by yelling more abuse after me, which made my blood boil, and so we had a fight. Of course, in reality, I sorted him out big time.....
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nice 1
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I have four men, three of them are soccer crazy, (it is soccer here as football is rugby of sorts and also smelly as it Dominates the TV) so it gets stormy in here at times. And I loved it as it is so much the reality of the game and fans.
Short and neat!
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I think ....
you mean Aussie Rules...or maybe Rugby League?
One of my old neighbours wanted a girl, but had a boy, so tried again..another boy,tried again, yes, another boy. So she was hopelessly outnumbered 4-1. And it was all football boots, football socks. Sounds as though you are rather in the same boat! It did have the advantage that, as I had five children, they could get the most absorbing games going at the drop of a hat, involving sprinting up down the road, a good bit of noise-- one wa called 40-40. I never did get the rules, but nowadays I should be v prissy if children did this -- as perhaps my then neighbours were!
When my son lived in Oz he had no trouble in following football here (soccer), and I daresay yours are the same.
Re the poem, I am glad you liked it; the funny thing is that I find the comments more funny, and more revealing.
Edward
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Judith
Yes, it happened. I learnt from it. Do not engage in verbal sword-play with a man who only has 500 words in his vocabulary, as when he runs out, he will get violent. I was holding some dictionaries from Uni at the time, and did not realise I had to release them till the thing was in full swing. I was on the ground, the silly ass came after, I got my legs around his stomach and stretched them-- the soooo-called scissors- and seeing his stupid face veer into view, stuck my fingers into his eyes........ at which point, the crowd around shouted that the police were coming, and they vanished, and, thank heaven, the fight stopped. He might have been a silly ass, but no-one got really hurt, and no-one did time in pokey. I was already a father.... to think such silly things, from the blue, can change our lives.....for better, or worse! It was no fantasy, really horrid. What it is to be a man! Even the kids are stabbing each other now, at an age when I was peacefully climbing mulberry-trees!
Woe is me!
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Really? Sounds like a pleasant fantasy to me, masculine.
Enjoyed the write.
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Sparkling Wit.
Razor sharp, extremely funny.
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Football fans are, indeed, unbearably brutish and ignorant folk. I avert my eyes when I encounter them on the Tube. As one would when faced with the horror of lower-order humanity.
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Why?
Why would you say such a thing?
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LOL, I LOVE THIS, ITS JUST COMPLETELY EXCELLENT
BRAVO
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Moonsail and Match
You have just become one of my favourite people!! And think they say @Vanity thy name is Woman'!
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Good! I mean it's good that you popped him a good one and I like your poem very much because it kicks ass.
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Great, I shall come and look again when I am not watching the end of Star Trek...
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So, which one did you support? Just asking before I put my foot in it and admit I am a Palace girl I'm only teasing, although if I did support a football team it probably would be Palace as it is my local team. I know the "cultured" and "smelly" reference probably answers my question, but like I said, I'm not really into football.
"You think you're hard" - yeah, I've heard that before, not said to me of course but chanted during or after the match, and it can be very scary. Although it's not always possible, walking away is of course the best option, which is what I keep telling my son, who supports Chelsea, lol
Sorry, I ramble. I really liked this poem, it was great how you created a perfect picture in front of my eyes with just those few words. Good one!
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That made me laugh even before reading your author note, and not knowing what Charlton and Palace meant.
Ah, the good old time, when jelly boiled
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