By Alun Robert
to the elite football restarted
though most life is in lockdown
to test their pedigree stallions
in private clinics and on grass
to engage in contact and dives
without face masks or distancing
to empty massed stadia covered
with massed adverts and insignia
to satisfy sponsors overloaded
with finance, products or debt
to the delight of media pushing
hard to invent news in sport
to fill gaps in tv programming
now that repeats are overdone
to entertain armchair followers
glued to their boxes or internet
to drink of season successes
even if nobody else is aware
to celebrate with best chums
clandestine behind locked doors
to contaminate each other for
the virus spreads through air
to mutate other strains from
South America or South Africa
to pass it on through touch of
friends, families and even foes
to frail and infirm in care homes
bereft of viral ppe but not care
to be remembered by families
who cry for their lost souls
to have been taken too early
“yet mistakes will be learned”
to the wonderment of children
who cannot return to school
to spend hours ogling football
when most life is in lockdown
