Thursday, November 28, 2013

THE CONDENSED READ: VIKTORIA PLZEN



Viktoria’s fans, scant but singing, jumping, making hay (and hops) whilst proud of club’s showing, of its gritty skill. Indomitability in action, will to win, or not to go down.

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And what a show it was. Goals, a custom in this part of town, shot down on us in clouds of buckshot, mists of napalm. City, always inflictors of havoc.

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A match that could run without passion, without action, without injury or much mishap, grown into a doughty show of skillful might, staunch spirit and lusty back and forth football.

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City first , x marks spot. Small man, big spirit, broad of thigh, with a contract for accuracy, blasts ball into goal with air of an individual in utmost form.

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On top of our world, on top of all worlds. But Viktoria find solution straight away. All straight in forty six rounds of a clock. All still to play for.

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But City, and not Viktoria, carry forward thrust, hold solutions. A quick fix from a Gallic foot and again hosts find a way to command. Not for long. Two two!

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Boiling, bubbling in a glacial mist, a match to warm hand and body, mind and soul. Nasri in and out, Hart a salmon in front of his trusty goal posts.

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At last a flood of action to warm hands in polar conditions, an outpouring of joy for a crowd in wintry grasp, no stubborn chill as myriad goals fly in.

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Spanish boss is calm and placid at this grand show of harmonious attacking. Just two topics of inquiry still hold forth in our brains. First, which man will guard goal?

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And two: which four individuals, strong of arm with skill in coordination, shutting doors, bolting portcullis, barring ways of approach, can do a job of work in front of Hart?   


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.....(* Ode to Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau   *300 words    * 10 x 30 words    *No letter 'e').....






2 comments:

  1. Brilliant, Simon! But have you ever tried to read A Void? Hard bloody work, maybe even harder than writing it.

    To aid you in your conundrum: It is obvious who is in our back four: Clichy, Kompany, Matia Nastasic and Pablo Zaba. Possibly Micah Richards, Martin also, and room for Garcia, but no spot for Joleon Lescott.

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    1. Poor Georges was troubled by a number of things: loss and an inability to place the letter e anywhere meaningful. Mr Kolarov has the same problems with his crosses.

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