50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems

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It’s about the 2006 World Cup final, with the truly magnifique translated chorus: ‘Zidane hit it, Zidane beat it, headbutt! We’ve also picked out a few verses about popular football teams, such as Manchester United and Liverpool FC. The ball holds cherished memories – of his father, who gifted it to him, and of his brother who died in World War I. All submissions are carefully reviewed and the best are included within the finest collection of football poetry on the planet. 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.

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.

It covers lots of topics, but one of its main points is that football can be a powerful source of inspiration for normal, working people. Writing poetry is a bridge that allows people to express their feelings and make others live every single word they read. Here are three football-inspired poems, the last by me, and the first by people more famous than me (for me it’s 4th and 20 with a minute on the clock—but hope, and apparently Tom Brady, are eternal! 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. Three Teams Worse Than Us’ from our Toffee friend Denys in Italy, also sums up how FGR fans currently feel.

Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry.On the last day of the 1997-98 season, Manchester City beat Stoke City 5-2 to condemn them to the third flight. Stephen handed over the baton to our current leader Jim Mackintosh, who has been in charge of our Poetry Collection since 2019, with Julie McNeill taking over in late 2021. Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1’ is a poem on football, passion and bouncing back from disappointment. There’s a poem capturing the romance of children playing street football until it’s almost too dark to see the ball, and another in which going to the match is a rite of passage for an immigrant boy seeking to belong. Bilston is a magician with words' Guardian 'Someone who knows their way round both a joke and a bittersweet narrative.

out of my hands:Nigeria are playing Croatia 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems includes witty chants, a haiku or two, and fun shape poems about the beautiful game. Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads. Andy Linehan recommends two songs: “The Real Sounds of Africa’s 13-minute track Tornados v Dynamos (3-3) – it details the game in the title and includes commentary on the goals (plus the arrival of the President of Zimbabwe to watch the game).

The collection brings together popular culture with literature, fan with critic, and brings together subject matters as unlikely as the header and philosophy.

This mini-anthology demonstrates that the beautiful game is entirely worthy of the beautiful language of poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground. It focuses on memories of childhood football matches, so would make a good funeral poem for a footballer or anyone who played in their youth. Back in the glory days when football was new, Sky used to give their man of the match a bottle of bubbly.Given he started managing Halmstad at 29, surely the length of his career must be close to a world record? We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper.