Sport

More info about our cricket team here.

We're Lewes Lightning
We're a little bit frightening
We're hitting up a storm

We roar like thunder
Over and under
When we are on form

We're young and older
Fierce and bolder
Than you might have thought us

- a villanelle about this.

Kids needed somewhere safe to swim
so locals raised funds for a pool,
got sponsor forms and filled them in

Again they shook donation tins
to keep aquatics at the school,
to keep the children safe to swim

We only needed a draw.
We didn't even need to score
unless we let one in.
We didn't even need to win,

Just make sure they didn't.
The point the draw would have given
and the two it would take away
from the rivals we happened to be playing that day

would have been enough.
Surely an ask that's not too tough.
Surely a task even we couldn't fluff.

Published in Solidarity 589, 21 April 2021.

Europe’s richest football clubs have announced an exclusive Super League, but have met with near-unanimous opposition.

This article was published under a different title in Solidarity 587.

Nicola Adams

Is dancing with Madams

Instead of with Misters

Ten points for the sisters

Referring to this.

You've won the Women's Ballon d'Or
You dribble, tackle, shoot and score
But do you twerk?

You strike a hard and well-aimed ball
Around a wide defensive wall
But do you twerk?

Top scorer in the Champions League
But one thing fills me with intrigue:
Do you twerk?

Keep politics out of sport
Black lives may matter
but all that matters here
is the score

Keep politics out of football
because standing up for the national anthem 
is not political
but kneeling for it is

Keep politics off the pitch
Offence and defence 
are matters for the field of play
not for the field of struggle

Roll up, roll up for the Sexism Olympics
Medals to be won!
It's not about your skill or fitness
But your husband or your son!