https://i.mopix.cc/BM9Pfu.jpg 足球颂 [英国] Musa Okwonga (b.1979)，罗浩原 译 这就是足球： 没错，在你家附近的公园里 两件毛衣地上左右一放标出球门 路灯就是照明灯 只有星星在当你的观众 这就是足球： 球场人员如理发师精心修剪草坪 看台上永远为喜爱的球员唱着赞歌 这就是足球： 上班日的夜晚看台上放着热咖啡 球员们挺起胸膛对峙 却从未真的打起来 这就是足球： 每场对战持续一个半小时 这是印着两队标志的长领巾的战争 你可以公平竞争，也可以扑到草坪上 这就是足球： 模仿着播报最终比分的声音 在球员转队交易期 天空体育频道宣告今天是截止日 这就是足球： 中场休息时排在上厕所、买食物的长队末端 如杰夫.赫斯特在温布利球场最後一秒的命运进击 这就是足球： 开球时哼着「今日球赛」节目主题曲 你低头不看30码线与微颤的球门横梁 这就是足球： 这就是恐慌 当意识到对手退守到大後方 其实是个陷阱 你的後卫们慌忙回防 这就是足球，这就是足球： 尽管护胫板都踢裂了 还在无辜地申诉 「裁判，我几乎没有碰到他！」 这就是足球： 不只是4-4-2或4-3-3阵型 而是当你少一人作战，然後丢分时该怎麽做 这就是足球： 在客场踢球时承受对方的嘲弄 当你在最後一分钟踢进致胜球时 他们就没那麽大声了 这就是足球： 决赛时平手 你得靠PK大战打破僵局 可你能仰仗的只有胆量 骤死战现在开始 这就是足球： 不是享用鲜虾三明治的高级包厢 而是置身各国语言混杂之处 当你的球队一比零领先 啤酒在酒吧中溢洒 这就是足球： 是言论残酷却公正的球迷杂志 是你不惜转乘巴士、飞机和火车去声援球队 这就是足球： 是对着墙练习，在礼堂中练习 在水泥操场上练动作 磨坏你所有的鞋子 这就是足球： 周日联赛後拉着全队的脏衣服回家洗 玩线上锦标赛直到睡意来袭 这就是足球： 它是头等的大事 你可以去问问老教练比尔.辛奇利 它是球场旋转闸门咔哒咔哒的响声 是绰号「加扎」的保罗.加斯科因泪洒球场 这就是足球： 英格兰足球总会出品 诞生於共济会酒馆 历经一百五十多年的发展 这就是足球： 在所有运动中，这是我们国家的最爱 我们谈论它，庆祝它 所以，如果你有酒，请举杯 Ode to Football --Musa Okwonga This is football: Yes, jumpers for goalposts in your local park, With the lamp-posts as your floodlights, And no-one watching but the stars. This is football: Where the groundstaff cut grass with a barber's care, Where the terraces forever sing hymns to their favourite players. This is football: Hot coffee in the stands on midweek nights, This is players squaring up, But never actually starting fights. This is football: Each battle lasts an hour-and-a-half, It's that war of rival scarves, You can fight fair, or plunge to grass. This is football: Imitating that voice that reads Final Score, This is transfer-window shopping, It's Deadline Day on Sky Sports. This is football: Last in that half-time queue for the loo then food, This is Sir Geoff Hurst on Wembley's turf in destiny's pursuit. This is football: Humming Match of the Day's theme tune as it starts, Keeping your head down from thirty yards, and shivering crossbars. This is football This is panic, Your defenders scrambling back, When they realised the other team sitting deep, Was just a trap. This is football, this is football: Cracked shin pads and all, It's the innocent protest, It's the "I barely touched him, ref!" This is football: This is not just 4-4-2 or 4-3-3, This is what you do when you go one player down, and then concede. This is football: This is that banter you get at away grounds, Which when you score that last-minute winning goal, Is not so loud. This is football: Cup tie, You've gone to penalties to sever the knot, But your guts are all you've got, And sudden death now marks the spot. This is football: Not prawn sandwiches, You can find it in all languages, It's your spilled pint in the pub, When your team goes one-nil up. This is football: This is that fanzine which calls it harsh but fair, This is catching coaches, planes and trains since your club needs you there. This is football: Practised against the wall, and in the hall, It's those concrete playground moves, That have ruined all your shoes. This is football: Lugging your team's laundry home from Sunday league, This is playing online tournaments until sleep intervenes. This is football: It's a very big deal, You can ask Bill Shankly, It's that click-clack of the turnstile, It's that Gazza-needs-a-hanky. This is football: Brought to you by The Football Association, Formed in the Tavern of Freemasons, One-fifty years in the making. This is football: Of all the sports, this is our nation's favourite, And we speak to celebrate it, So if you have a drink, please raise it. --

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