50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems

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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. Christopher Vaughan got the ball rolling with an example from back when Manchester City were a comedic shambles instead of today’s Pep-fuelled turbo-elite Premier League champions.And to my mind the best ever football record, Pam Pam Cameroon by Macka B, includes references to Maradona and Roger Milla and the refrain ‘against the Cameroon England were lucky, lucky! In this article, you’ll find a selection of poems on football and death, as well as some inspirational football funeral readings from literature. It’s a playful, humorous take on the Lord’s Prayer, where ‘Hallowed be thy name’ becomes ‘Hallowed be thy game’ and ‘Amen’ becomes ‘Full time’.

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 2011 Kirin Cup ended with ZERO goals with the three teams sharing the trophy - Japan, Czech Republic and Peru. The Hampden Collection created its poetry section on 26th March 2018, with Stephen Watt as its inaugural Poet In Chief. The power of football as a way of ‘fighting sorrow’ also chimes with the message we find elsewhere in A Shropshire Lad: that male bonding, friendship, and neighbourly solidarity are all features of rural village life. Full of poems that will make you giggle about all things football, including being left out of the World Cup squad, mum's opinion on Messi vs Ronaldo, or those unmissable fixtures:I?Yes, in our case, with two going down to the Conference, it could be entitled ‘Two Teams Worse Than Us’, but three would make us feel even safer.

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. That becomes clear when you read Findlay’s latest work, 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems, an edited odyssey through the nation’s cultural history, seen through the prisms of poetry and football. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge.This mini-anthology demonstrates that the beautiful game is entirely worthy of the beautiful language of poetry. Back in the glory days when football was new, Sky used to give their man of the match a bottle of bubbly.

Have there been any examples of two ‘unrelegated teams’ playing each other and both going down at full time? You can read as many as you want, and also submit your own poems to share your writings with all our poets, members, and visitors. Ranging from the 1580 poem The Bewteis of the Fute-ball to poems by many of Scotland's best-known contemporary poets, including Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan, the long and fascinating relationship between Scotland and football has never been encapsulated so well, nor has it meant so much. There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.