Good song for Supporters trust teams (or teams like Edgware)

[lovely stuff]

By a little known act called Attila the Stockbroker http://www.attilathestockbroker.com/

 

Read carefully <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/achso.gif" alt="" />

 

 

And don’t tell me it’s only football

 

His system defines ‘ownership’ – a mess of paper shares

A slick deal, a commodity acquired

He pulls the strings and works the law so he controls the ‘wares’

Then laughs at all the anguish he’s inspired

Now we are many thousands, and he is only one

But law and state hold him in their embrace

What kind of law, what kind of state condones what he has done?

A state where social justice has no place

 

CHORUS

 

So don’t tell me it’s only football

And above all, friends, don’t tell me please

That it’s nothing to do with years of sleaze

The shattered lives and the corporate trough

Don’t tell me it’s just a sad one-off

That it’s nothing to do with politics

That politics and sport don’t mix

Don’t tell me it’s just bad luck

And don’t tell me it’s only football

 

Our grounds rose up near stations in old Victorian times

Most urban centres then were barely towns

Built for our teams, then left in trust to us across the years

By people who loved football, not just pounds

The vulture sees the soaring price of inner city land

An ailing club which he can desecrate

To us it’s pride and history, the story of our lives

To him it’s just some prime site real estate

 

CHORUS

 

Our culture has been colonised, our heritage is sold

And moneymen control our national game

It’s devil take the hindmost, all hail the Premier League

And if you can’t compete, well, that’s a shame

There’s a superstore development and it’s coming to your ground

A pinstriped butcher’s waiting with his knife

Brighton, Wrexham, anywhere, the lesson is the same

Let’s kick him out – of football, and of life!

 

CHORUS

 

[Ron Merlin]

Nice words as always from Attila.

 

Power to the people, comrade! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Father Jack]

Quote:

lovely stuff said:
By a little known act called Attila the Stockbroker http://www.attilathestockbroker.com/

Little known act my ar5e. The man once bought me a drink at the Edinburgh Festival - the man is a legend!

[Duke of York]

You're not kidding! He is adored at Brighton and Hove Albion for his prose documenting the feelings of the true footy fan!

 

In the 80's he was regularly on TV shows like the Tube.

 

A true Legend!