Oscar Wilde, Eat Your Heart Out

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”

Ah, Oscar Wilde. A personal favorite. Consistently providing some of history’s greatest musings and quotations. The English in the crowd would do well to listen to him, as there is nothing more to look back on in sorrow. Now is a time to take the pain and frustration of being kicked off the magical bus to Swissaustria and use it constructively in other pursuits. The following fans from footballpoets.org have done such, and have proved to be the consummate example for fans of the Three Lions.

A couple of favorite excerpts and links to the full Monty

The Fella ‘Neath the Umbrella by S. Parr

Do you remember 2004
And we dreamed that we might even be good enough to win it?
Now it’s 2007 & we’re not even in it.
Does anyone want to buy a ticket to Vienna?
It’s yours for a tenner.

Euro 2008: it doesn’t add up by U Rowe

Could it be inferred
that qualification followed?
Nah, both hope and pride swallowed
Coz overall
In the last third
They bossed it
And we lost it

Go On Jose. Give It A Go! by k. raymond

“I’ve just had big boss Brian Barwick on the phone
Offering mois the Ingerland job
As my old big boss Roman only knows
I’ll cost a nice few bob!”

Bonus: Scotland 1 Italy 2 by P. Goulding

All in all, I really love the mindframe of these gents taking lemon and making lemonade while calling a spade a spade. Of course, I’m sure most England fans would rather take another course. As an old friend once mused:

“If life hands you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Throw those bitches back ’til you get the fucking oranges you asked for!”

Truer words have never been spoken.

The Offside Blogging Team can also be found at these Offside blogs:
Roma | World Cup | LA Galaxy | Serie A | Les Bleus | Gli Azzurri

	Soccer Forums	Team/International Results

Category: England, World Football

Tags: England, Poetry, World Football

Subscribe   The Offside RSS Feeds

Print

Share