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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=542963" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Memory From 85</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've always thought that Gaelic Football was a grand and a sporting game<br>But after witnessing a match between Rockchapel and Kiskeam<br>Played in the Gaelic Playing Field half a mile from Knocknagree<br>The uglier side of Gaelic Football was all brought home to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas Duhallow B league final on an evening in July<br>And with little to enthuse about for a neutral such as I<br>A scrappy game of football and the language it was crude<br>And both sets of supporters were mouthing loud and rude</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I watched on in silence and I could not feel amused<br>When a linesman by an old Rockchapel mentor was abused<br>And one could feel the tension rising and things were boiling to a brawl<br>And 'twould not be a night for sportsmanship or classical football.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And worse was to come later and an ugly sight to see<br>A young Rockchapel player assaulting the referee<br>And when he received his marching orders and refused to leave the field<br>The ref to intimidation rightly refused to yield.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ref blew the final whistle with Kiskeam to the fore<br>They had won a tarnished victory by a mere five points to four<br>In a brutal game of football they'd survived a gruelling test<br>But at kicking and at mouthing they had come out second best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas a sad night for Gaelic Football and Duhallow's night of shame<br>And I'm not pardoning Kiskeam they must partly share the blame<br>But for a cup and set of medals and with little else at stake<br>For their attitude and thuggery Rockchapel took the cake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ref's motor van was interfered with and a door lock it got broke<br>By a wild man from Rockchapel a half crazed gray haired bloke<br>And this rowdy behaviour over a game of ball<br>It's no wonder I felt sickened fairly sickened by it all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've always thought that Gaelic football did not have an ugly side<br>That the players and spectators on their native game took pride<br>But now I know quite different and I see things differently<br>Since that Duhallow local derby game that was played in Knocknagree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q>
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