WELLS TOWN FC: there's an oystercatcher on the pitch...

 WELLS TOWN FC... 

(There’s An Oystercatcher On the Pitch…)

A dog might have made a surprise appearance

Perhaps

At Villa Park, having slipped beneath a turnstile.

Not at St Andrews 

However, 

For why would any creature

Want to tarry there awhile?

A cat has been known to evade players’ lunges,

Erstwhile

At lauded venues, having been smuggled through a turnstile on a whim.

Not at Wells-Next-The-Sea

However,

Open on all sides to north Norfolk’s gales, wild and grim.

The moorhen patrolled the technical area,

The oystercatchers checked if the pitch would take a stud;

The pheasant encroached,

The seagull approached

Like a referee sensing blood…

Pete Ray

Brilliant place. 

Wells-next-the-Sea’s football ground, early spring 2012…