Football For All

by The Whitehawk Isolators

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I started going to football matches in 1966.

Southend United on a Friday evening and Upton Park or Whitehart Lane on Saturday.

I stopped going in 1970. My long hair was attracting unwanted attention from big booted, cropped hair types.

Trains I was on were trashed and I felt distinctly unsafe just getting the grounds. I narrowly avoided getting attacked several times but the stress was telling and I had to reluctantly hang up my scarf.

Others, meanwhile, will wax lyrical about the golden days of Best, Greaves, Moore et al.

Lyrics: Dick and Ollie
Music: Dick
Artwork: Ollie

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Listen to the old man as he talks about the past
Said that was football, real football for all
We had no time for anyone who wasn't hard or fast
Well that was football, real football for all

Everything was simpler then, you can hear him say
Yes that was football, real football for all
No preening prima donnas paid a hundred grand a day
Thats not football, not football at all

That's not how I remember it I never saw the wins
Intercity calling cards and zizzer zagger skins
Trashing trains and breaking heads, come on lads get in
It wasn't football, not football at all

God help you if you had long hair or the wrong colour scarf
When you went to football, was that football for all
As cocaine fuelled assassins tried to rip you in half
That was football but it was not for all

God help you if you weren't white or dressed a different way
You're going to football, you thought it was for all
I wonder if they look back now with any sense of shame
It was their football, didn't have to be for all

You might think things are better now but there's a long way still to go
When the knee is booed it's obvious that some don't want to know
Fed a warped nostalgia through rose tinted boots
Should football ever go back to its roots

Football for all
We try to do our best
FFA
but we can't win every game
FFA
We can be better than the rest
So we clean our boots and then we go again

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released December 6, 2021

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