“WE’VE got your daffodils!” sang Whitley Bay’s football fans in Poole last weekend, giving evidence of where the wit in Whitley comes from. That was last Saturday when Whitley came to play Poole Town in the first leg of the FA Vase semi-final – with the aggregate winners of the two matches going to the Wembley final.

They were a merry crowd whose daffodil chant – inspired by the Echo story about the Poole park flower-picking row – made me chuckle.

Their other customised chant to Poole fans was less original. To the tune of They’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain, they invited Poole supporters to insert our something Sandbanks up our lower digestive tract. Or words to that effect.

I was pondering over the anatomical impossibility when Whitley scored their second late goal... robbing Poole of a win they richly deserved.

And then a Whitley fan’s actions made me suspect I may have been wrong. This portly pal pulled up his Whitley Bay shirt to taunt Poole supporters with a victory roll. The undulation of his vast belly, however, was less like a Spitfire pilot’s homecoming than a rhino giving birth. Painfully. To quads. It looked as if he’d not only visited Sandbanks but had managed to swallow it whole.

Tomorrow, the Echo will preview Saturday’s crunch semi-final second leg when Poole supporters will head to Whitley in the hope of seeing the 2-1 deficit overturned. Can they do it?

It’s a big ask but the team and fans’ concentration won’t be on any lower gastrointestinal challenges of what the rival fans can do with Whitley Bay’s own fine beaches but the football.

And from what I saw on Saturday, Poole have the talent – and the guts – to have ’em for breakfast.