Anyone for Menace?

Oh! Den,

has there ever been

a bouffant with more oomph

than the one you wore

six years afore

on Final Score?

I simply adored it:

shiny, sleek and sweeping.

Black as La Brea Tar Pits.

Like a snippet from the Seventies -

the smart barnet

of an off-duty Borders policeman,

readied for the Round Table.

Monsignor Allan Ross, sporting Blue Stratos.

Camembert, Lambrusco and Black Forest gâteau.

Never seen before or since.

Tell me, where did it go?

To a rest home

for the retired wigs

of retired footballers?

Or does it lurk

in some murky corner

of the Millwall Hall of Shame,

in a shrine to the dark side

of the beautiful game?

B.R. 27/01/2021

Former Wimbledon, Chelsea and Millwall central midfielder Dennis Wise and his confounding side-parting of 2015. To my knowledge, a proper explanation has never been given. B.R.