The Bard and C.A.R.D.

Alex Wright

Saturday will be notable for three things:
The huge protest at the Valley against the Regime.
St Georges Day.
The anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth.

The three events are connected by the Bard's immortal words:

"This day is called the feast of St George.

He that protests this day, and comes safe home, will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, and rouse him at the name of St George. He that shall protest this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours and say "To-morrow is Saint George’s Day.". Then will he strip his sleeve and show his #WeWantOurCharltonBack stickers and say "These stickers I had on St George's day."

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot but he'll remember, with advantages, what feats he did that day. Then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words— Afka the King, Irving and Airman, Addicted and Plum, Davo and Curb-it — be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.

This story shall the good man teach his son, and St Georges Day shall never go by, from this day to the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For they to-day that protests with me shall be my brother; be he never so vile this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England not at The Valley shall think themselves accursed they were not here and hold themselves cheap while any speak that protested with us upon Saint George's day."

Anna_Kissed

And, amidst all the howling, gnashing of teeth and a sea of black and white, one recalls the words of Polonius in Hamlet:

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Lewis Coaches

Do not forget the gentlemen with the STVV fans not only in England, but the arm of Saint George will reach out to Belgium tonight.

Alex Wright

Lewis Coaches said:

Do not forget the gentlemen with the STVV fans not only in England, but the arm of Saint George will reach out to Belgium tonight.

I sense you are "Greyhounds, straining in the slips"

Set fair the wind for Belgium. Good luck to all.

NornIrishAddick

So, Roland as King Lear, anyone???

GlassHalfFull

NornIrishAddick said:

So, Roland as King Lear, anyone???

Lear and RD on the same page - How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child/ungrateful fans ....

Tunwellsaddick

Sterling stuff on St George's Day. Fans up for the fight.

Stig

The Bard on Duchatelet:

You are a tedious fool. Measure for Measure

Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice. Measure for Measure


The Bard on Meire:

Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all! The Comedy of Errors

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. Othello


The Bard on Murray:

Thou mis-shapen dick! Henry VI


The Bard on the Board:

A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers. Richard III


The Bard on Keohane:

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster! The Tempest


The Bard on Fraeye:

Your abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone. Coriolanus


The Bard on Two Shat's collection of cut-price puppet coaches:

They are hare-brain'd slaves. Henry VI


The Bard on seeing That picture of Two Shats at The Valley:

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. Coriolanus


The Bard on what Two Shats should do now:

Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!: Troilus and Cressida

letthegoodtimesroll

'Time, gentlemen please, haven't you got a home to go to' ...Shakespeare pub

Eynsfordaddick

Prince Hamlet's advice to Ophelia, KM: 'Get thee to a nunnery!'

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

How now, what news?
Stands Scotland Belgium where it did?