50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems

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Composite: Alamy/Reuters View image in fullscreen The former Labour leader Michael Foot penned a poem about Dixie Dean’s Everton.

In line with our Scottish Footballing heritage and hosted from Football’s Square Mile, our mission is inclusive, diverse and equal, and you will see our three streams of poetry make up a a remarkable collection for everyone to enjoy. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. As Grant explains, “Football is always the winner”, illustrating our mission is to encourage young people to explain their football emotions through the written word. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. There are poems by a range of authors about all kinds of football matches – including meteorite footballs, football on the moon, a witches versus wizards football match, the goalie with expanding hands, and the Stone Age man who invented football.Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1’ is a poem on football, passion and bouncing back from disappointment. It has individual meaning to each player, a meaning each kid would be hard-pressed to put into words. Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry.

Thus, along with the three you can find via the link above, I’m adding Ortolani’s poem to the Super Bowl Hall of Poetry Fame. The collection brings together popular culture with literature, fan with critic, and brings together subject matters as unlikely as the header and philosophy. Paul has compiled lots of books for Macmillan (over 500,000 copies sold to date), including The Works , and has two collections of his own poetry. The experience moved him so much that he wrote a poem about it – “Ode to Everton” – and sent it into the Liverpool Daily Post.If you polled one hundred high school football players, asking how well football and poetry go together, you’d probably find unanimous agreement that they don’t. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The truce wasn’t total, and on Christmas Day 1914 there was some fighting on the western front; but Duffy’s poem homes in on the temporary cessation of hostilities – and those parts of the trenches where the battleground was made into a football pitch. Perhaps the most famous football match in European history is the Christmas truce of 1914, when the soldiers fighting in No Man’s Land sang songs and carols at each other from their trenches, and played impromptu games of football. My own debut collection, Way More Than Luck, contains a series of poems exploring the legends and myths of Liverpool FC.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Sarah Wardle is well-known for her football poetry – she was once the poet in residence at Tottenham Hotspur FC in London.Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. My son and his Step Dad bought season tickets for Fulham before they ascended into the Premiership after Al Fayad bought the club, on the basis that eventually, they would get to see Premiership football – which worked. Guaranteed to delight, this is a perfect introduction to poetry (and football) either at home or at school. The poems in this anthology strike an altogether more subtle note and take us to the very heart of why a seemingly straightforward team sport arouses such passion and commands such lifelong devotion.