Kipling inspires Luton Win

[Hannibal smith]

"I pinned the poem, 'If', by Rudyard Kipling, up in the dressing room but I don't think any of the players could make head or tail of it. I left it up for an hour but took it down before it got defaced."

Luton manager Mike Newell thanks Kipling for ending his side's run of seven successive defeats with victory over leaders Preston.

"I certainly knew the gaffer didn't write it!"

Luton captain Steve Robinson on the poem.

"I didn't know what it was. I thought it might be an angry letter from a fan so I kept well away from it."

Striker Rowan Vine gives his verdict on the prose.

 

[surrey jim]

I thought it was a thread about half time cakes

(60 second rule )

 

[Moshe Gariani]

The England cricket team were apparently inspired by this before the second test...


The Guy in the Glass

by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934



When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf,

And the world makes you King for a day,

Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,

And see what that guy has to say.



For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,

Who judgement upon you must pass.

The feller whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the guy staring back from the glass.



He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear up to the end,

And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test

If the guy in the glass is your friend.



You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,

And think you're a wonderful guy,

But the man in the glass says you're only a bum

If you can't look him straight in the eye.



You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,

And get pats on the back as you pass,

But your final reward will be heartaches and tears

If you've cheated the guy in the glass.