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HAMLET AT THE WORLD CUP It goes( as it always goes, to ) : ! PENALTIES ! A chorus of "Oh Noooos'!" rises from the fans like winter breath from cattle Hamlet, places it: ...steps back to take it &. . . "Do it England!" the fanatic fans chant "Dooooo....Itttt...Angle...la...and!" Hamlet thinks ( No...nOOOO Hamlet don't . . .think! ) But it is alas -too late he has already thunked! "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come it will be now!" "Duh!" the fans think "Agggghh...just do it!" The thoughts sprout from his great big noggin like a cartoon speech bubble. "...if it be not now yet it will come!" "The readiness is all!" Hamlet runs up to the waiting ball. Hamlet hushes his thought process strikes the ball with his right foot &. . . "To be or, aggggghhhh noooooo!" After that comma that negative sentence. 'NOT TO BE!" jeer the rival fans 'GIT THEEEE...TOA...NONE...ER...EEE!" Hamlet ends it all with a bare bodkin. "O, O, O, O." Dies "Football is not...." as Shankly so succinctly put it "...a matter of life and death. It's. . . much much more important than that!" The rest. Is. silence.
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Jun 17, 2018
Jun 17, 2018 at 5:59 PM UTC
HAMLET AT THE WORLD CUP
HAMLET AT THE WORLD CUP It goes( as it always goes, to ) : ! PENALTIES ! A chorus of "Oh Noooos'!" rises from the fans like winter breath from cattle Hamlet, places it: ...steps back to take it &. . . "Do it England!" the fanatic fans chant "Dooooo....Itttt...Angle...la...and!" Hamlet thinks ( No...nOOOO Hamlet don't . . .think! ) But it is alas -too late he has already thunked! "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come it will be now!" "Duh!" the fans think "Agggghh...just do it!" The thoughts sprout from his great big noggin like a cartoon speech bubble. "...if it be not now yet it will come!" "The readiness is all!" Hamlet runs up to the waiting ball. Hamlet hushes his thought process strikes the ball with his right foot &. . . "To be or, aggggghhhh noooooo!" After that comma that negative sentence. 'NOT TO BE!" jeer the rival fans 'GIT THEEEE...TOA...NONE...ER...EEE!" Hamlet ends it all with a bare bodkin. "O, O, O, O." Dies "Football is not...." as Shankly so succinctly put it "...a matter of life and death. It's. . . much much more important than that!" The rest. Is. silence.
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Jun 17, 2018
Jun 17, 2018 at 5:59 PM UTC
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