Greaves

it is said that he never missed a chance

often goals came in threes fours and fives

with his typically devastating nonchalance,

a true ‘Eastender’ 

pie and mash before each game 

but not what the Italians served up in ‘61,

Jimmy wore a cloak of invisibility

ghosting into the box

haunting defenders mercilessly

his six England hat-tricks, still a record

when football was still a man’s game

and not the pantomime it is today

RIP ‘little man’

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© Graham Sherwood 09/21