50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (23) was replaced by Ainsley Maitland-Niles (20) in the Arsenal v Leicester game. 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. The ball holds cherished memories – of his father, who gifted it to him, and of his brother who died in World War I.

This collection captures the passion Scots feel about football, covering every aspect of the game, from World Cup heartbreak to one-on-ones with the goalie. In simple terms, it finds a simple truth about football and what the game means to boys who take it seriously. On the last day of the 1997-98 season, Manchester City beat Stoke City 5-2 to condemn them to the third flight.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. Discover more classic poetry with our pick of the best poems about sports, these classic baby poems, and these great Rudyard Kipling poems. 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.

We’ve also picked out a few verses about popular football teams, such as Manchester United and Liverpool FC. He describes how every supporter feels an intense and personal type of grief when their team loses a match. As for those going to work, they will no doubt burn some water-cooler time discussing the merits of Super Bowl commercials, even to the point of grading them. Have there been any examples of two ‘unrelegated teams’ playing each other and both going down at full time? Braw Words is our latest venture, launched in 2021, for our young poets from across the country, aged 5 – 18 years of age.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! The theme of this chapbook is high school in general, which makes sense when you learn that Al Ortolani taught English for 43 years (eclipsing my record by a whopping 18 years, bless him).

My own debut collection, Way More Than Luck, contains a series of poems exploring the legends and myths of Liverpool FC. 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. My Old Football’, which was set to music in the early twentieth century, is a fine football song/poem about the singer’s/poet’s close bond to his old football, because of the football’s close associations with the poet’s brother, who is off fighting in the war (see also Duffy’s poem below).Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry.

I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground. SWNT is the world’s first National Football Team Poetry Society, launched in 2019 and contains over 40 poems.

Bilston is a magician with words' Guardian 'Someone who knows their way round both a joke and a bittersweet narrative. Perfect for football fans of all ages – from the young footie fanatic to a been-to-every-game-grandma, and every ‘I could’ve been a pro’ in between. Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems includes witty chants, a haiku or two, and fun shape poems about the beautiful game. There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds. Stream-of-consciousness and almost prose poetry in its form, ‘Football’ takes a wry and humorous look at the game.