Gavin Ellis and the season when time stood still -- part 14
By Ray Simpson
More poetry from the Darlo bard
Darlo fan Gavin Ellis has written some prose about the 2019-20 season which finished early because of Covid.
Here, he's written about our goal of the season at Kidderminster.
LACK OF WILL
Guiseley come to Blackwell and they’ve got a point to prove
And we start the game lacklustre, just not in the groove
Connell concedes a free kick, though he didn’t hold the ball
Guiseley then go one-nil up, what happened to the wall?
The tackles fly in high and wild, we’ve lost our heads completely
A Guiseley player in midfield is cleaned out by Joe Wheatley
The Guiseley players go berserk, send him off they bellow
The Darlo bench are quite relieved when the ref shows yellow
Guiseley then go two-nil up from a dodgy penalty
Before the game’s concluded they slam in number three
I think that we upset them when we won at Nethermoor
Although the lads got smashed today, the ref was just as poor
AGGBOROUGH BROTH
We always enjoy our treks to Kidderminster Harriers
Friendly pre-match social club with no dividing barriers
The best food in the Conference North, the cottage pie delicious
And the famous Aggborough Broth is also quite nutritious
With two bad defeats behind us the first half is quite flat
The stadium’s as quiet as a soundly sleeping cat
But as the second half begins our fans all take to Twitter
To tell of Harriers’ forwards missing an absolute sitter
When Hatfield shoots from forty yards we think that’s not too clever
But when the ball hits the roof of the net, we bet that’s his best goal ever
Then Harriers score a worldy, too, to level up the score
We leave Aggborough with a point, a battling one-one draw
NO BULL
The Quakers head to Hereford, our longest trip by far
Supporters down some pre-match drinks in Ronnie Radford’s bar
The game gets going at Edgar Street, Darlo in black and red
And half way through the first half The Quakers go ahead
Justin Donawa on the wing goes flying down the right
Hereford can’t stop him, at least not in full flight
His cross flies through The Bulls’ defence and gives them spinal shivers
The ball has reached the far back post and is slotted home by Rivers
Hereford then equalise, a shot meant as a cross
And when they score a second fluke, we think this is a loss
Then Holness scores a leveller with ninety seconds on the clock
And knocks miles off the journey home for The Quakers’ travelling flock