Anfield Blues – Liverpool 2-2 Birmingham City

Mcleish’s men travel up from the Midlands
Kop hammer the Anfield bass drum
Now to reduce the 12 point gap
With a good kick up the Brum

Unrelenting pressure stirs the hordes
Not that anyone needed any proof
Clinical finish with a far post volley
David Ngog lifting the roof

But then the wrath of Benitez descends
No known blood ties with the gaffer
Thumped hard by the preaching Christian
Aghast stood his namesake Rafa

Home crowd go eerily silent
Jerome chooses to hit a cracker
Missing again the spine of the team
And a mega Moneybags backer

Reds welcome in two icons
Il Principe Alberto Aquilani
Converting the fruits of Ngog’s dive
All rise for the return of the Big G

Another discouraging home draw
More ambience at a recital
Euro dream all but damned
Is it also goodbye to the title?

09.11.09

Number 7
© Emdad Rahman
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