Sincerely the Crappiest Poetry you will ever read ...

Stirring Giant

September 17, 2002

If you go down Grenoble RoadLook out for the giant who’s sleeping.In truth, it’s not much of a giant,But you’ll hear it gently weeping.You have to listen for the sound,Because you’ll never find a sign.The owners say they’ll put one up,But it’s going to take some time.Meanwhile, someone has shook things up,The ‘stars’ jump out  more ]

The summer is over: long live football!

September 1, 2002

The summer’s over: long live football!It’s back at last! Following the long dull summer, enlivened only by a circus in the Far East, and the tasters of the under-17 international tournament and the pre-season friendlies, we’re back to the blood and guts of division three football. It really couldn’t have gone on any longer; when  more ]

The Smithsonian Institute

August 20, 2002

The ancient manor once was an academy(I’m doing my best so don’t think bad of me)where ballet was the essence of a graceful sport(It’s my first effort it took a great deal of thought)But today tis bleak and darkness descendsin spite of it all we still have friendswe watch and we wince and we suffer  more ]

JANUARY

August 20, 2002

The first of January, Ninety-One,Saw the boys from Ipswich Town undone.Jimmy and John put us 2-nil aheadAnd by the time Town scored the game was dead.Then off to the Bridge the away fans went,To see Chelsea’s season given a dent.United in red were a delight to the eye,We left SW6 on an incredible high.Back to  more ]

GARRY

August 20, 2002

So Ooh Aah Garry Smart is no morefrom the London Road we used to callyour hair was short, wavy and curlybut your body was never ever burly.Some may say ‘Thank God he’s gone’but for your passing and effort I do longYou never reached those dizzy heightsof a ball in the net that was in your  more ]

The right time come?

August 11, 2002

All the pre-season games have been played; the new players have come in, the old players have left. The first game is under our belts and, three points to the good, things are looking good for United. This really must be the season that the decline of the past few years is not just halted,  more ]

The Past Seasons and Ongoing Decline

May 8, 2002

I read with interest your comments inside the front cover of the last Rage On and those on the web page.I don’t have the former in front of me now but you struck a chord with me when you referred to there being something fundamentally wrong with the club, a malaise that rests at its  more ]

Talking turkeys

April 23, 2002

This is the first Rage Online comment for some time. Not because we haven’t had anything to say, but because what could one possibly say that would do justice to the shambolic displays that we’ve been subjected to this season, which started so full of promise in the new stadium.For the first time we can  more ]

ODE TO LEE (AND WAYNE)

March 9, 2002

(Best sung to the tune of Kirsty MacColl’s ‘Walking Down Madison’!)Watching Lee MaddisonOn loan from Carlisle he has comeI swear he must be Atkins’ sonHe’s taken him wherever he’s gone!Hatswell’s been shown the doorCracking own goal he did scoreThough we won’t see him any moreThere’s still lots of hoofing, that’s for sure!Warwickshire Yellow

Just before the dawn

November 21, 2001

They say the darkest hour is just before the dawn.In the pre-season optimism abounded amongst United supporters, many predicting an immediate return to the Second Division under new manager Mark Wright, with the team at last playing in a new stadium. Rage Online generally shared this optimism and these high expectations is what makes this  more ]