FOOTBALL commentary IS POETRY
Football commentary can make moments of excellence stay with you forever. We watch it and drink in the beautiful game, but for me, commentary is the constant icing on the cake. It builds on our present feeling of jubilation, connecting us in the moment and changing how long it is celebrated. There’s a beauty within commentary that’s under-appreciated. Football fans are fans of football, yet the story of any game can be felt through a few words. Literal poetry that brings goosebumps to our body, building on the occasion in its own mercurial magic. Our suspense is felt through their voice but seen through our eyes. This beautiful game needs those beautiful quotes because I swear we’ll never see anything like this ever again.
Argentina champions of the world,
And the nation will tango all night long.
36 years since Maradona and Mexico
Here finally,
Is the nation’s new throne of immortals.
Messi will be sainted.
France this time denied, defied.
And in 2022,
The world champions, Are Argentina.
Lionel Messi has conquered his final peak.
Lionel Messi has shaken hands with paradise.
The little boy from Rosario, Santa Fe,
Has just pitched up in heaven.
He climbs into a galaxy of his own.
He has his crowning moments,
And of course he is not alone.
He was beautiful,
He was the point of difference.
He has always been the point of difference.
Unparalleled.
And maybe today there will, of course, always be those who argue,
Always be those who debate.
And the debate can rage on, if you like.
But as he falls in love.
With the object in the world that his heart most desired,
It is hard to escape the supposition that he has rendered himself today,
The greatest of all time.
