Views in verse on 'sports nuts'

Aussies love their sport

"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ...Oi, Oi, Oi" ...you can say that again!!!

Just off the Soccer World Cup and now the nation 'takes a seat on the couch' for the Commonwealth Games starting this week in Glasgow. 

This is allowing for the fact that Australians actively follow three major football codes during winter: Aussie Rules, Rugby and Rugby League. Last night seventy thousand fans in Melbourne went out to see a club game (Swans v Hawthorn) and that same night forty thousand fans in Sydney went out to watch two local Super 15 Rugby teams (Waratahs and Brumbies) battle it out for a seat in the final next week. Rugby League is also a huge drawcard on the east coast coming into finals time. Free to air and Foxtel football are huge drawcards in prime time. We love our winter football codes.

But none of this will stop us sitting up and watching our athletes fighting it out in Glasgow. Australians are expecting their team to bring back about half the medals that are on offer; any contest with 'the mother country' will always guarantee a competitive response from all Aussies. So the interest will be intense.

There is no doubt that the average Aussie is a 'sports nut'. And ...we wouldn't have it any other way!!!



The Die Hard Fan

What is this light
That dances round me?
My skin is cold within
Am I watching
Am I sleeping
Is this face my kin?
I hear soft grumbling
The image mumbling
There's no clear lines I see
What's this happening
Surely dreaming
A chill sweat covers me

I try to move
But nothing's moving
Confounded by the light
I'm now awake
On that I'm clear
Fumbling in the night
Blimey! ...not Dad?
...reaching out...
...he's long past skin and bones...?
Now he's touching
I feel his breathing
I hear his gravelly tones:

"Son, we worry about things
That our life brings
We're not happy till it's done
We lock ourselves up tight
Day and night
Much like a train we're riding on
I don't know the answers
As I'm telling you this
My life was lived the same
But I need to know
before I go...
Did the Boys win that last game?"

"Did they smother Plugger
That big hard bugger?
Did Kelly make them pay?
Did Tighe do it tough
Down the guts
To steal the game away?
No apartheid fall
Nor Berlin Wall...
My life wouldn'a bin the same
I've just gotta know
before I go...
Did the Bloods win that last game?"


Sent from my IPhone - Grahame J Flynn