A Few Words: River Severn. Football Analysis

 A Few Words

A few words.


 make big pictures


 Big pictures can be 

sliced and framed,


Into motion video.


Video needs sounds.


Sounds can make music. 


Music and video can inspire 

Films.


Films need a few words 

of explanation.



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Rising in the mountains


Inspiring painters and poets


Very strong currents


Enveloping, at times the


River bank.



Sinuous and serpentine


Each bend and curve; becoming  more


Voluptuous as the Lady River



Enters her  last passage and


Returns to the sea 


Necessary for ensuring tidal flow.


River Severn  08/08/'20.



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With the new football season only five weeks away ( can you believe it ? )
Thought i'd better look at last year's predictions.

Premiership      prediction                actual finish


1 Man City                   1st                                    2nd

2 Liverpool                   2nd                                  1st

3 Tottenham                 3rd                                   6th

4 Chelsea                     4th                                    4th



Liverpool were the outright and throughly deserved winners.

Man City lost their way slightly  at the onset, but came strongly after lockdown.

Spurs were the big losers. A season to forget for the ' Special One `'

Chelsea had a good season. Enterprising start under Frank Lampard.




Championship


1Leeds              1st                                        1st.

2 Cardiff City      2nd                                      5th

3 West Brom       3rd                                      2nd

4 Middlesborough  4th                                  17th



Leeds were always likely to win staying upfront all season.

Cardiff never got act together. Made and failed in the playoffs 
From a long way off it looked like a match between the 'baggies ' and Leeds.
Good year for the Serbian manager.
With only Newcastle holding an increasingly bedraggled  flag for the north east,
'Boro and Hull just seem to have lost it. Not bothering with ' Boro for a while ;
especially , when my old friend Fulham, 
 made it through the playoffs to  secure the
Premiership.


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"Solitude is a great thing, provided you have some-one to talk about it afterwards."


From ' The Infinite Monkey Cage '  Podcast.


Wifi for now.
Ck.





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