As football poems always do well on here...?

I thought I'd torture you with this one I wrote about the best club in England ?

 

On Sunderland docks 

They riveted iron & steel 

In surrounding villages 

Whirred the pulley wheel 

 

Graft and toil made 

The industrial North East 

Sweat and blood spilled 

All with little release 

 

But teaching minds resolved 

To mould men into a team

So workers of iron & coal 

Forgot the rivets & the seam 

 

And they came to cheer on 

Those men at Blue House Field 

James Allen laying the seeds 

Of a talented crop to yield 

 

It was 1879 

Times were hard 

And life was short 

But a frail nirvana could be found 

Through every ticket bought 

 

And they tore up many grounds 

Before finding new abode 

But it couldn't last forever 

For it was at NEWCASTLE Road! 

 

But, 

From a distance came a rumble 

That would soon become a roar 

As Roker lay in waiting 

To change all that went before...

 

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