Is it only me - or am I just responding to the bias
in their commentary; I’d’ve sworn there were two
teams afield, both clad in distinctly different strip,
plus a referee attempting judicature, aided by an
odd-ball coterie of visible assistants - plus some
you don’t get to see, yet those stirring words we
hear relaying on-field endeavour appeared only
praiseworthy to wearing th’ green ‘n gold
I don’t mind my team winning - I am as partisan
as the fellow next to me, so if patriotism colours
what’s seen and told in xenophobic vibrations -
beware - th’ game needs impartial commentary
for dignity rather than an added anxiety - it isn’t
easy as wearing your team’s colours
So we watch th’ game without sound; its live-to-
air TV for God’s sake - you actually see what is
supposed to be said in commentary - sadly it’s
taken for granted a rare event nowadays; - yet
back a ways it was where the respect matured
into what is the meaning of fair over foul play
© 26 October 2015, I. D. Carswell
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