Gavin Ellis and the season when time stood still -- part 14

By Ray Simpson

Gavin Ellis and the season when time stood still -- part 14

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