Sir, – I enjoyed Frank McNally’s piece (An Irishman’s Diary, August 17th) which was prompted by the start of the football season in England. He writes that it provides evidence of the unlimited capacity of most football fans to be astonished by events he has come to find entirely predictable.
Having read the piece, I took my morning walk and noticed a bus-stop advertisement for one of the pay TV channels which offers extensive football coverage. The banner reads: “Expect the unexpected”. – Yours, etc,
PAT O’BRIEN,
Rathmines,
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Dublin 6.
Sir, – Brian O’Brien (Letters, August 18th) suggest that maybe the Haiku would be a manageable poetic form for the average Premier League footballers and proposes an example incorporating “Over the moon”.
However, players also need a haiku for the bad days, something like, “We was unlucky. We should have got a result. Sick as a parrot.”– Yours, etc,
FRANK E BANNISTER,
Dublin 4.
Sir, – Brian O’ Brian’s suggestion for a haiku is good. But what about a Listowel? It’s like a Limerick but has only two lines.
“Twas a long shot bet
But it’s in the net.” – Yours, etc,
MATTIE LENNON,
Blessington,
Co Wicklow.
