Despair

Despair

Sometimes I get the feeling where

In order to write I need despair

Cue Bolton away

Last Saturday

And clumps of my remaining hair.

Glen Johnsons defensively weak

Maxi’s too scared and too meek

Charlie Adam, not pretty

Andy Carroll, a pity

That’s just my shortened critique

Dirk and Pepe, our always secure

Looking out of form and unsure

Not fatalistic,

Uncharacteristic,

It’s all quite hard to endure

Tactics must be stared in the face

A defensive midfielder replaced

Standards need mending

The Season is ending

Will the Carling Cup save us from grace?

Top 10 songs of 2011

At Number 10 it's Ghostpoet, he was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize this year and rightly so, this song Liines is from his album Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam.



Number 9 is Swedish songstress Lykke Li, her album Wounded Rhymes was one of the albums of 2011 and this for is the best song on it, called Rich Kids Blues.



Loved Number 8 the second I heard it, it's called Goldstar and is by Belfast band Cashier No 9.



At Number 7 are Pete and the Pirates who released a super album in 2011 called One Thousand Pictures, this song called Half Moon Street.



The Strokes came back in 2011 with a new album called Angles and while it didn't set the world alight for me there were a few stand out songs.
and in at Number 6 pop pickers, is Call Me Back.



Metronomy had quite a few nice tunes out this year on their album The English Riviera, this for me was by far the best, The Look at Number 5.



Number 4 appeared quite late in the year but love this song,
Daughter and Home.



Heard Number 3 first when they played it at Glastonbury and while I wasn't a huge fan of them before this I thought this was amazing.
The Horrors and Still Life



Number 2 is The Drums and Money from their difficult second album Portamento.
The kids love this one and so do I.



and finally Number 1 tune for 2011 is The Vaccines and Post Break Up Sex.
One of the most beautiful songs I've heard in manys a year.

No time to write poetry

My favourite song this week by Daughter called Home.




Here's another super choon from Pete and the Pirates.
She doesn't belong to me.

This week I've been mostly listening to........

Nice little tune from DJ Shadow with Little Dragon.



and also this little ditty by I Break Horses, called Wired.

You reap what you sow.

You reap what you sow.

We all kind of knew it would come to this day

We went in our thousands for Shelbourne away

A tremendous season, correct curtain call

The buses were filled up in no time at all

A convoy of sorts, support would be vital

We’d have taken promotion but wanted the title

Holy trinity guarded pub door command post

The father, the son and the clubs holy ghost

There redgav and dunnocks and tiktok ran rule

You can make up your own mind as to who was who

Slightly surreal but I just couldn’t tell

Would this be the gates of heaven or hell?

Into the ground, we joined our merry band

As we pretty much filled their Riverside Stand

The rest of the ground looked quite sparse to compare

As two thousand City fans gathered in prayer

Four minutes in and that roof it was lifted

Duffer slammed home, into dreamland we drifted

Then who came along and unloaded his cartridge

But that handsome young lad from the family Partridge

Though Shels were on top, we survived the critique

Chocolate wrists had been kept in the freezer all week

Them winning the league, it would sting like a thistle

We were secretly wishing “Blow the bloody whistle”

Derek ran in the corner, I couldn’t quite see

How would he cross, with his hands on his knees?

He traversed to perfection that spherical threat

 Which Graham directed right into the net

That was the point it all went to slow motion

Trepidation followed by frenzied commotion

Missing person announcement throughout the ground

The run of myself was nowhere to be found

Jumping and screaming we all did embrace

Elation as tears they just flowed down my face

The repetitive stadium announcer ignored

As onto the pitch the City fans poured

Wandering around hugging friends, hugging strangers

Despite my dear mother having warned of the dangers

Last time I hugged Moses twas in May ninety three

This time he ne’er squeezed all the life out of me

To stop off in Durrow, driver we did sweeten

For the nicest bag of chips I ever had eaten

The following morning slightly under the weather

Trying to piece the night before together

All the memories about my head they did roam

No idea of the hour or what time I got home

But I knew this is our club, that bit was vital

This Foras run club had just lifted the title

We did it, we went to Shelbourne and won 2-1 with a goal in the 94th minute.
A complete fairy tale, justification for all the hard work.

I hope this goes a little way to conveying how the evening went.
If not, then watch this.

Out of the Blue

This song came into my head this morning from absolutely nowhere.
A blast from the past and what a beautiful song.



and for my beloved Cork City as we bid to win the First Division title in Dublin tomorrow night.

The Final Push

The Final Push

What a season this has been

Defeats for us were seldom seen

And while our sheets weren’t always clean

Victories numbering eighteen

What can I do? You might say

To help our club along the way

Buy the gear, watch City play

And join our Foras trust today

Sincerest thanks go to our BOM

Who keep things running with aplomb

To each and every volunteer

Who give each week and persevere

Such positivity we transmit

Premier door, us please admit

Promotion within our remit

We’ve got a job, now go do it

If we don’t quite lift that cup

And even if we don’t go up

Some the club will bid goodbye

We’ll see whose City till they die.

Two games left of our second season as a fan run club.

A win at home to Longford tomorrow night guarantees us at least a play off and means we'll be going into our last game away to Shels needing a win for automatic promotion.

Who knows , if results go our way a final day win might even take the title.

In other news this week, a Supporters Direct project (including FORAS, our supporters trust) has been chosen to receive funding by the European Commission.

The title of the project is Improving Football Governance through Supporter Involvement and Community Ownership, more details can be found here