Grounds for Divorce
Highbury Stadium – once was the time
When the very mention meant Arsenal.
But you threw that away for some sponsor or other,
Your history’s turned to a farce, pal.
And White Hart Lane has hardly fared better,
And Goodison fell by the way –
Where next ? Old Trafford or Stamford Bridge,
Where memories no longer play ?
I get it, you needed to move, to expand –
And you don’t give a fig for the past.
You’d even let wither the name of the club
For a chequebook sufficiently vast.
Yet imagine Milan, but without the San Siro,
Or Barça decamped from the Nou.
And imagine your shiny new ground with an old name,
To carry your heritage through.
Rhyming Couplets 