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WAKEFIELD Trinity's fanzine, Wally Lewis Is Coming, has a Poetry Corner. Among other gems, it offers this version of 'Away Melancholy' by Stevie Smith:
Away melancholy
Away with it, let it go
Are not the trees green,
The earth as green?
Does not the wind blow,
Fire leap and the rivers flow?
Away melancholy.
I was sure
We'd beat them
At Hilton Park.
CHANT of the week: David Seaman wears all-black, as referees are now in green. Last week Chelsea fans welcomed him with: 'Who's the bastard in the black?'
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