Oh what a night, late-ish May in twenty twenty… five
Oh that night that made me come alive
What a feeling, what a night.

Oh what a night, set in Bilbao with which nothing rhymes,
United and Spurs had such a happy time,
UEFA League final, such a night.

Oh what a night, two hapless teams with little skill or fight,
Falling over, mis-timing, flailing bright
Til Spurs did score in a game so tight.

Oh what a night, now Man United pulled out all the stops
They had to score to avoid being top of the flops,
But the goal was hard to find.

The game moved on, the time passing at snail speed
With Lila and Joey we were nervy indeed
We replaced the beer with snacks to feed
But still United wouldn’t concede.

United pressure, relentless, pressing
Our defence strong, what a blessing
A shot at goal, surely in our net!!!
But Micky Van der Ven flies airwards, the ball to get

Later on a headed attempt surely bound to go in!!!
Vicario saves, I swore a lot, is that really a sin?
The final whistle, the Cup, the glory,
And that, my friend, is part of the story.

“Your trophy cabinet’s empty”, so the tossers cried
For years and years that mantra, an assault on our pride?
I never cared, not one bit, ending high in the league, that was it.
Trophies come or not, that was a secondary bit.

But now we have a trophy, and I’m pleased as Punch
going to go with the Legend to have champagne with our lunch.
But all those who now have no song to sing
Seem to be deprived of silverware themselves, that’s the thing.

By their criteria, they have miserably failed
Whilst by finishing seventeenth, our stock has sailed.
And what to do with Ange?, that’s now what we ask
He promised a trophy, was equal to the task

Champions league awaits us: (God help us all)
I hope this won’t be pride before the fall.
But we have some cash, and we’ve become a desirable team,
Is Ange the man to take us to highs we’ve never seen?

So much to enjoy, so much more pleasure
I’m just going to enjoy these days, take it at my leisure.
Next season’s a mile away, loads of time to go,
Meanwhile, I might just polish ‘my’ trophy, but literally so.

Very, ecstatically, deleriously Happy Thursday

A xxxx