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One of yer Norvern Saints

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Apr 15, 2019
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April 15. A day to remember that football is only a game, and that people should be able to go and enjoy a game and come home again.

I was sent this poem this morning and thought I'd share it.

"The Sun's dead sound, it's got birds with big knockers.
Take them in work and decorate your lockers.
The sport in it's boss, especially the racin'.
And the 'oroscopes tell us the day we're all facin'"
."Don't you remember, you ignorant swine?
All the lies they told in eighty-nine.
Let me remind you just what they said.
We pissed on the bizzies and robbed our own dead.
""But the telly page's sound, they've got bingo and lotto.
And on one of the pages there's a nice little motto.
Anyway Evo I just didn't know.
It doesn't matter now it was so long ago."
"It does ****in' matter!
It matters a lot.
People had children they've no longer got.
People had fathers they'll no longer see.
They said that I killed them, they said it was me!""
Shut up will you Evo. You're always bangin' on.
Hillsborough and justice, all that carry on.
Anyway Evo get out of me face.
It's only a newspaper in any case."
"It's not a newspaper. A newspaper has news.
Not made up stories with which to abuse.
What they said was "The Truth" were all scurrilous lies.
We got no apology. What a surprise!""
All right then Evo what should I buy?
"Tell me one, give me the reason why.
Which one do you think stands out from the rest?
The Mirror, The Echo, which one's the best?""
Don't buy the Sun. It's fit only to burn.
Don't buy the Sun. There's nothing you'll learn.
I'll say it once more and then I'll be done.
Buy what you want but
DON'T BUY THE SUN."
 
Akways loved Benjamin Zephaniah's poem 'I read it in The Sun.' Made me laugh when i heard it but never managed to find it since.

Anything for you, Ian!

The Sun, Benjamin Zephaniah

I believe the Blacks are bad
...The Left is loony
God is Mad
The government’s the best we’ve had
So I read The SUN.
I believe Britain is great
And other countries imitate
I am friendly with The State,
Daily, I read The Sun
I am not too keen on foreign ones
But I don’t mind some foreign bombs
Jungle bunnies and play tom-toms,
But, I read The SUN
Man, I don’t like those Russian spies
But we don’t have none
I love lies,
I really do love Princess Di
I bet she reads The Sun
Black people rob
Women should cook
And every poet is a crook
I am told -so I don’t need to look
It’s easy in The SUN
Every hippie carries nits
And every Englishman loves tits
I love page three and other bits,
I stare into The SUN
I like playing bingo games
And witch-hunting to shame a name
But why aren’t newspapers all the same?
So why not read The SUN.
Don’t give me the truth, just give me gossip
And skeletons from people’s closets
I wanna be normal
And millions buy it,
I am blinded by The SUN
 
Anything for you, Ian!

The Sun, Benjamin Zephaniah

I believe the Blacks are bad
...The Left is loony
God is Mad
The government’s the best we’ve had
So I read The SUN.
I believe Britain is great
And other countries imitate
I am friendly with The State,
Daily, I read The Sun
I am not too keen on foreign ones
But I don’t mind some foreign bombs
Jungle bunnies and play tom-toms,
But, I read The SUN
Man, I don’t like those Russian spies
But we don’t have none
I love lies,
I really do love Princess Di
I bet she reads The Sun
Black people rob
Women should cook
And every poet is a crook
I am told -so I don’t need to look
It’s easy in The SUN
Every hippie carries nits
And every Englishman loves tits
I love page three and other bits,
I stare into The SUN
I like playing bingo games
And witch-hunting to shame a name
But why aren’t newspapers all the same?
So why not read The SUN.
Don’t give me the truth, just give me gossip
And skeletons from people’s closets
I wanna be normal
And millions buy it,
I am blinded by The SUN

Brilliant, and would love to see him update that for X.

EDIT - though I guess that would be rather difficult for him now. I keep forgetting he died recently!
 
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Thanks for posting this. I have been searching on line for it for about 20 y3ars but never managed to find it. Not sure which book it cimes from. Really appreciated.

He wrote some mazing poems. Funny but hard hitting. There is a brilliant one about supporting Villa. Much missed.
 
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