Monday, 23 July 2018

On-Field Arbitration


Okay, a few glasses o’ fine red with the grand meal 
my Lady suggested would be a reward well-earned 
for quietly watching live Super Rugby; deserved I’d 
guess for saving the witty, on-field repartee I’d diss 
were I there, or more accurately, not being similarly 
disposed t’ disagree with nonsensical commentary 
you’d need to be insane to let lip; but anyway, its a 
no-win situation; even when referees blow th’ coup 

Yet that’s th' case for today with two games flayed 
into insanity by rulings which technically had some 
place in realms o’ after-the-event Court cases; that 
you’d say, doesn’t add t’ on-the-paddock rulings a 
moron could contest with little to do with ‘referees’ 
being accurately the good game arbiters we grace 

Their argument misplaces an avid, on-field contest 
with antiseptic, tho dyspeptic, cross-examinations 
of suspects needing, to be fair and reasonable, 10 
minutes field-time, prior t’ making the yellow-card 
decisions that in effect, give a gratis points bonus; 
and, so where are we, who payed to watch Rugby 

Anywhere but there, is the place you’d wanna be…  
© 4 May 2018, I. D. Carswell 

No comments:

Post a Comment