INVICTUS - Let our South African environs inspire us!

[Stanley]

Steve Black should be earning his corn and plastering this all over the training ground and dressing room, from now til the end of the season, IMO.

If it worked for the Springboks in 1995, defying all the odds to defeat the mighty All Blacks through sheer team spirit and determination...it can work for Queens Park Rangers FC twenty years on!

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

[vblockranger]

Reckon you would just get a lot of blank looks apart from Joey who just pretend

[Kirill]

That poem is differcult.

[Shania]

A great poem, but how many of them can read?

[Stanley]

How predictable for two of the most negative posters to pipe up first!

[vblockranger]

Now if Mr Mittal came to the dressing room and promised them all a brand new Bentley or Aston with all the extras if we stay up then THAT they would understand and respond too.

[hal9thou]

I think you'll find the referee contributed to the outcome ;)