Farewell, Old Friend: The Old Grandstand, 1926 - 2017 | Exeter City Football Club

We’ve all got that one friend.
The one on which we can depend
for two things, at least:
firstly, they’re always there.
Secondly, they help us feel much better
about our own appearance,
if only by comparison.
While some are best aesthetically,
which doesn’t help our self-esteem,
possessing personality is,
in a friend, the perfect dream.
That thing called ‘character’:
a form of protection
from years of rejection.
You might have felt it building.
‘Cos hey, it’s what’s on the inside
that counts, right?
Or am I just being polite?
They might be more, say, sewage waste silo
than a classical statue of Venus de Milo.
Perhaps, instead, more frothing and rabid
than Michelangelo’s sculpture of David.
And how they ever managed
to be greeted down the aisle
is more of an enigma
than the Mona Lisa smile.
We’ve all got one friend like them,
maybe more.
And to some, we are that friend.
More oily rag than oil painting.
More riled goblin than Ryan Gosling.
Not known, shall we say,
to be a head-turner.
No whiplash claims here, thanks.
Yet, though we’d never want to
see them ever in the nuddy,
(and NEVER while we’re eating),
they will always be our buddy.
Our oldest friend. Our strongest connection.
The mate who claims our greatest affection.
So we will miss them.
Having teased and tormented them
when they were present,
the thought of their absence
now not quite as pleasant.
And the same goes for stands.
For so long a home to families of fans.
Many generations of celebrations.
Though, no longer in the plans.
It’s time to say farewell.
And if we’re honest,
yes, it’s due.
But one thing won’t be lost
once we’ve made way for the new.
Old friends won’t live forever.
Their passing can’t be spared.
But what lives on, when they have gone
(apart from the aches):
the memories we’ve shared.

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Lovely club and lovely people, you have a fan here in Portugal! Love you guys!

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Excellent vid - awesome like 👍🤘

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Genuinely loved that stand, was in there behind the home dugout every game I went to

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#rip

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