Tuesday, 12 February 2019

GORDON BANKS - a tribute to the greatest goalkeeper ever

I felt like crying

                       it came like a ripple through the head

      like a puff of wind on a stillwaterpond

                       it came

                                   gone in a moment

                                   a moment of passing

 a fleeting pass on my mortality

                                                 the thought never ending until

                                                                                                 we reflect on our own

reminded by the passing of another

his job 

            to keep the ball out of the net

                                                           our job to see
   
                                                            be there

and now no muddy shorts

                                         referees whistles

                                                                    Pelé with his head in his hands

Gordon Banks dead at 81

                                        an icon gone in a mad world



john edwards 12th February, 2019

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