About Pope and Swift
Pope and Swift, like all the best ideas, was formed in a lecture theatre.
Two sport loving friends and English undergraduates were studying Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift by Jonathan Swift, when the lecturer began to comment on the line: ‘In Pope I cannot read a line, but with a sigh, I wish it mine’. One friend turned to other and said: ‘That’s like me and you. Your a better writer than I am. You’re Pope and I’m Swift.’
Since that point, Pope and Swift have been whisked away to Euro 2008 by leading beer producer Carlsberg, became embroiled in the darkened underworld of boxing and saved just enough pennies to travel 5,500 miles to watch England’s golden generation flop at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Having left studying literature behind, they will form an inpregnable partnership (akin to Southgate and Adams at Euro 96) as student journalists at a leading university in London.
