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rob9872

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IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling

(I know it's really 'off-topic' but I think we could all do with a read of this at the moment :) )
 

Disenchanted

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I thought Joey Barton wrote that
 

rob9872

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He's probably claiming. It seems he uses everything from Martin Luther King to Oscar Wilde and makes no reference that they are not his. Probably some of his followers thinking the guy is profound and therefore misunderstood.
 

Godiva

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IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

'You' is SISU, right?
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
Godiva ..... how could you .......... a moment of pure class on these boards and you have to swear like that :facepalm::)
 

Godiva

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bull in a china shop.jpg

A photograph of me doing what I do best.
 

NuneatonSkyBlue

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Football manager did a version of this for the FM 2009 advert if i remember rightly.

B.O.T it's a great poem by a great writer.

EDIT: It was 2008 not 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=tF1Fov_QycQ
 
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Johnnythespider

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It's a great poem, but the last 4 lines have always stood out to me, and i can't think of anything more apt for our young sqaud.
 

Disorganised1

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Thank heavens I was afraid it would be a link to Telly Savals ~ "If a picture paints a thousand words..."
 

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