And I propose th’ cream o’ being a rugby fan’s
seeing your team best an Eddie Jone’s pack o’
puggish Poms - yeah, some of ‘em are players
o’ distinction - & deserving hugs rather than th’
derisive curses they usually get when they win;
but they lost t' Scotland, who’ve convinced us
there’s still more to the Six Nations series than
another dourly staged, & boorish, Pommy win
And it means our team gets the Calcutta Cup:
okay - first time in 10 years, but at Murrayfield
they wouldn’t be counting; altho’ the pleasure
seeing ‘Red Roses’ bleeding from their noses
is a pleasure t’ behold & so we’ll quietly relish
there being a lot less boisterous 'Englishness'
after-match, when they make th’ presentation
© 25 February 2018, I. D. Carswell
For the record: Scotland 25 - 13 England
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