Sunday, 19 April 2015

Football (April)

A quadri-lanceolate oval employed by a quarantine of wills upon a cornerless field. Its indented heads serve unpredictability, point being to bounce opposite to the course of play. Stitched tight by fearsome egos, laced for loss, it upends the April Premiers’ arrogant marks, rolls clear of princely pretensions, floats mysteriously to a passing rover, watched on high by thousands near a goalpost. The bladder is no possum intestine but imperial rubber: intestinal fortitude combines imported British optimism, purple emotions, and a load of pressurized hot air. Placed, dropped, torpedoed, punted, or stabbed, it’s the game’s one element no-one argues with.  

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