Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Boomers v Filipinos


Maybe its something to do with the surfeit 
of testosterone one’s supposed to need to 
compete efficiently - or are we gilding their 
already ragged lily; there’s this plenitude o’ 
evidence an event said to be spontaneous 
was anything but - had been painstakingly 
planned an extravagant retaliation, & must 
seem unrehearsed, yet just didn’t ring true 

So thus an on-court blue between Filipino 
basketball players and their Boomer rivals  
threw cat and bag out o’ court; Philippines 
coach Chot Reyes had exhorted his mob t’ 
hit somebody, put somebody on their arse, 
intending they reacted together, punching 

their way t' infamy, but not just players as 
Filipino officials and spectators joined the 
ruckus in its mad free-for-all too; luckily it 
proved fruitless as diversion for the game 
already lost - but the cost to basketball is 
unrecoverable - tho’ the players will pay… 
© 4 July 2018, I. D. Carswell 

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