Perhaps the greatest combat in steel land
All nations watched Wembley
Red Blades took on the blue Owls
In the South Yorkshire derby
On a very warm day in April
With the big cheese ambassadorial
Sheffielders invaded London
Descending en masse on the capital
Crammed into the famous old stadium
Just who’d be at the Cup final?
Bragging rights in neighbourly disputes
Be it school, streets, the public urinal
A belter from Waddle streaked in
Hysterics from Stanmore to York
But the Blades scythed away the lead
Courtesy of the veteran Alan Cork
It wasn’t to be the United
As Brightey struck home the winner
To send the blue-and-whites into rhapsody
And the Blades home to their boiled dinner
Woods, Harkes, Warhurst, Nilsson
Hirst, Palmer, Pearson
Bright, Waddle, Worthy, Wilson
Do the Bart man, Sheridan
The Hillsborough Kop and clever Trev
Steel city’s greatest Wednesday team
Ambrosial delectable delight
Like luscious strawberry and cream
Number 7
© Emdad Rahman
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