a Boxing Day drink
on the way to the football
strangely quiet streets

a ‘topping up’
in the Sir Robert Peel
before the match
talk of Christmas and how
we’d be pleased with a draw

outside the ground
we fuel up further
pre-match fervour
free beer and mince pies
provided by the club

our Leicester Foxes
famously beat Man City
the noisy walk home

Paul Conneally
December 26th 2018