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Euro 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Steve Pottinger<\/em><\/p>\n the bees dropping into the poppies in my garden has spun on the proverbial sixpence drunk on pollen they float in evening \u2013 or not \u2013 of Trippier at left back busy all through a penalty shootout watched a home, or if it\u2019s going there, and when the bees are humming their own tune Euro 2024 by Steve Pottinger the bees dropping into the poppies in my gardendo not care that Saka\u2019s scored a screamerthat the mood in the Red Lion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":17143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
do not care that Saka\u2019s scored a screamer
that the mood in the Red Lion over the wall<\/p>\n
that the players who were not fit to wear
the shirt are now halfway to being heroes<\/p>\n
sunlight to salvia, lavender, and lupin
ignoring the debate about the strengths<\/p>\n
Kane up front, the balance in midfield and
what the hell do pundits know and they are<\/p>\n
from between fingers, hearts in mouths
they do not care whether football has<\/p>\n
the roar goes up, the celebration,
when the chants of Eng-er-land ring out<\/p>\n
head down in the nasturtium flowers
their view on Southgate remains unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"