<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559115" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In The Local Football Oval</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the floodlight lit football oval each weeknight after tea<br>I hear the young men shouting as they train diligently<br>As their coach puts them through their training drills their exuberance I hear<br>They sprint about in the chill night air in the coldest time of year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some of the young players under twenty they have their dreams of fame<br>That they yet may become famous in Australia's only indigenous game<br>To play in an Australian Football League Grand final would be a dream come true<br>A dream that's dreamt by many and realized by only a few.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the well lit football oval they kick ball and sprint around<br>And in their endeavour to become match fit they cover miles of ground<br>And they perform push ups and pull ups and natural muscle in this way they gain<br>For one cannot expect sporting success if for success you do not train.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the local football oval where dreams are born and die<br>The shoutings of the young men echoes to the starry sky<br>In the chill evening air of late Autumn you hear them cheer and shout<br>As they race through the oval and chase the ball about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear them every evening from six thirty till after eight<br>In the local football oval five hundred metres from my front gate<br>The town's young budding football stars not quite yet in their prime<br>And they dream of sporting greatness that will withstand the test of time.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559115" data-title="In The Local Football Oval de Francis Duggan" data-description="In the floodlight lit football oval each weeknight after tea I hear the young men shouting as they train diligently As their coach puts them through their training drills their exuberance I hear They sprint about in the chill night air in the cold..."></div> </div> </div>

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