BECAUSE THEY CAN PLAY F'CKING GOOD FOOTBALL: PART 12

'flowers of springtime wilt; 'the wail of david de G'; 'what an afternoon'; previous parts below...

PARTS: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, ELEVEN

cover: Paradisio Publishing

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through the days

late summer

autumn

winter

spring

the ingot coloured afternoons and eves

of May

this:

this

is

Manchester United

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De aap komt uit de mouw

(Dutch proverb: the monkey comes out the sleeve)

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PART 12

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page 124

a loss at Brighton

the flowers of springtime

wilt

this is another defeat

sport is loss and going on

somehow

Luke says, ‘i cannot explain why my hand is up there’

but he did put his hand up there for a handball that is fatal:

result: penalty, minute No 99, 

alexis mac allister 

slots this home and 

the

result:

we are KO-ed 1-0

on the coast on the south of these lands

across the water from Erik’s homelands,

the table reads:

fuck: look at Liverpool

four points behind

they are playing as if a dream on sails skimming 

the oceans

of the world 

spurting up behind us;

we are not

playing this way;

we have a game in hand, we may need it;

we are at West Ham on Sunday.

the king’s coronation is the day before;

will Man Utd end this season again crowned in top 4 ‘glory’

which is no glory at all but the base level requirement???

we motor back to Manchester

our homes

this season in so many seasons gone before and yet to arrive and be fought;

we are the griots of manchester united;

the lost troubadours;

who want to find again the place of the team’s rightful home.

at

the very top of the mountain

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page 125

the wail of David De Gea

david, david, david, david

fucking hell

what are you doing?

west ham 1 man utd 0

david’s fault for said benrahma’s

winner -

again

his fault.

wail for david and this side that may be imploding with

only 4 games left; 

watching david commit a howler is like a rerun of a half-hilarious nightmare

that aint half-hilarious because it features us and david 

and everyone else 

who aint us and david enjoying 

mucho hilarity - full hilarity; it aint half hilarious mum, if you aint man utd;

for this is what they do - them;

they laugh

at

us;

and 

david

fucking hell david

what are you doing?

again??

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