The Beautiful Game, .

The Beautiful Game it seems to me

 Is a title full of irony

I can't name a player who isn't a cheat

Either on the pitch or the bed sheet

They don't seem to care about the score

Only about earning more

Every week fans invest time

And hopes and dreams and love

On teams of spoilt boys who whine

About how the results should've

Given them a win

Or at least a free kick

The ref's call was a sin

Making players feel sick

No it's never the fault

Of the guy in the strip

That wasn't assault

But good gamesmanship

In the end the winners seem  to be

The money men's bank balance

Which is wrong you must agree

So we should correct this abhorrence

And call it as it seems

A soul destroying waste of time

A raft of money making schemes

Long past its hay day at it's prime

Not beautiful but abysmal

By Izzy Silver