David Peace - The Damned Utd
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For Jon Riley, with love and thanks
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest;
It crieth out against me, therefore have I hated it.
Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are
against her;
Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
Jeremiah, Chapter 12, Verses 79
Repetition. Repetition
Fields of loss and fields of hate, fields of blood and fields of war
Their sport upon the walls, their sport upon the floor.
Milton! Thoushouldstbe living at this hour: England hath need of thee
In her shadow time.
On our terraces, in our cages, from Purgatorio, we watch,
With our wings that cannot fly, our tongues that cannot speak:
Destroy her politics! Destroy her culture! Destroy her!
But our wings are thick with tar, tongues heavy with her coin,
On our broken backs, our broken hearts, shell dine again tonight.
In her shadow place
We are selfish men: Oh, Blake! Orwell! Raise us up, return to us again.
These civil wars of uncivil hearts, divided and now damned
The old is dying and the new cannot be born
By Elland Road, I sat down and wept; D.U.F.C.
An English Fairy Story
Wednesday 31 July Thursday 12 September 1974
First Division Final Positions, 197374
| Home | Away | Total | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | F | A | W | D | L | F | A | F | A | Pts | ||
| 1 | Leeds United | 42 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 38 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 28 | 13 | 66 | 31 | 62 |
| 2 | Liverpool | 42 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 52 | 31 | 57 |
| 3 | Derby County | 42 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 40 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 26 | 52 | 42 | 48 |
| 4 | Ipswich Town | 42 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 38 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 37 | 67 | 58 | 47 |
| 5 | Stoke City | 42 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 39 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 54 | 42 | 46 |
| 6 | Burnley | 42 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 29 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 27 | 37 | 56 | 53 | 46 |
| 7 | Everton | 42 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 29 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 34 | 50 | 48 | 44 |
| 8 | QPR | 42 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 35 | 56 | 52 | 43 |
| 9 | Leicester City | 42 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 35 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 24 | 51 | 41 | 42 |
| 10 | Arsenal | 42 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 35 | 49 | 51 | 42 |
| 11 | Tottenham H | 42 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 26 | 27 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 45 | 50 | 42 |
| 12 | Wolves | 42 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 31 | 49 | 49 | 41 |
| 13 | Sheffield Utd | 42 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 25 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 27 | 44 | 49 | 40 |
| 14 | Man. City | 42 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 29 | 39 | 46 | 40 |
| 15 | Newcastle Utd | 42 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 27 | 49 | 48 | 38 |
| 16 | Coventry City | 42 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 38 |
| 17 | Chelsea | 42 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 36 | 29 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 31 | 56 | 60 | 37 |
| 18 | West Ham Utd | 42 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 36 | 32 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 55 | 60 | 37 |
| 19 | Birmingham C | 42 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 43 | 52 | 64 | 37 |
| 20 | Southampton | 42 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 48 | 47 | 68 | 36 |
| 21 | Man. Utd | 42 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 28 | 38 | 48 | 32 |
| 22 | Norwich City | 42 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 25 | 27 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 35 | 37 | 62 | 29 |
Bottom 3 clubs relegated.
I am a Yorkshire Man and I am a Cunning Man
And I curse you! First with gift, then with loss
I curse you!
Loss and then gift, gift and then loss
Until you lose. Until you leave
I will curse you!
I see it from the motorway. Through the windscreen. The kids in the back. Fallen off the top of Beeston Hill. Are we nearly there yet, theyre saying. Are we nearly there, Dad? In a heap up against the railway and the motorway banking. Asking me about Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles. The floodlights and the stands, all fingers and fists up from the sticks and the stones, the flesh and the bones. There it is, my eldest is telling my youngest. There it is. From the motorway. Through the windscreen
Hateful, hateful place; spiteful, spiteful place
Elland Road, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.
Ive seen it before. Been here before. Played and managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away
Hateful, spiteful place, flecked in their phlegm
But not today; Wednesday 31 July 1974
Arthur Seaton. Colin Smith. Arthur Machin and Joe Lampton
Today Im no longer a visitor. No longer away
No more zombies, they whisper. No more bloody zombies, Brian
Today Im on my way to work there.
* * *
The worst winter of the twentieth century begins on Boxing Day 1962. TheBig Freeze. Postponements. The birth of the Pools Panel. The Cup Final putback three weeks. People will die in this weather today. But not at Roker Park,Sunderland. Not versus Bury. The referee walks the pitch at half past one.Middlesbrough have called their game off. But not your referee. Your refereedecides your game can go ahead
Well done, ref, you tell him. That lot down the road call off anything.
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