There's a dog in the playground!

This was written during the Holland v Uruguay game, when Uruguay needed a goal during injury time. I wanted the keeper to go up front. That's the main reason people watch football. This is a clip of Jimmy Glass, the Carlisle goalkeeper who scored in the 4th minute of injury time and meant Carlisle didn't get relegated from the Football League.



This poem's called There's a dog in the playground. 'A baker falls over' is a line taken from Tim Clare's project where he wrote one hundred poems in a day.

There's a dog in the playground!

I like it when life is thrown into chaos
a friend grows a beard
TV programmes are disrupted by rolling news
a goalkeeper runs up for a corner
sprinting like an escaped con
the defenders all look at each other
'We've not got a plan for this.'

There's a dog in the playground!
For months everyone in school says
Do you remember when there was a dog in the playground!
wiping away tears of joy.

Once I was in the marketplace
and a baker fell over
me and another man helped him to his feet
walked him to the bakery
and the next day when I went to buy bread
the shop was shut
and there were sirens in the distance.