Half Time Pie (an attempt at poetry)
A few years ago, on a visit to Scotland to see friends and family I took my eldest daughter, who would have been around fifteen at the time to see a game of football in Dundee.
It was December 29. 2007, and Dundee were playing Partick Thistle at Dens Park.
These were my notes after the game. A bit of football poetry for you!
I’m sitting in the North Stand at Dens
Watching the Dee take on the Jags
Freezing my knackers off
In a half empty stadium
Forty-five minutes of keech
First Division football at its best
Then a greasy pie at half time
And coffee to keep the hands warm
In the second half
When the goal comes in the last minute
as a scuffed effort from ten yards squirms under the keeper
I’m dancing in the aisles
‘mon Dundee!
It’s not that I support them
But I got carried away with the moment
Football does that to you.
