50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems

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Primo Poetica (First Poetry) was launched in 2020, with over 30 poems, encouraging football wordsmiths to share their football thoughts. There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds. And Ben Lander took us to the Madejski Stadium on 28 April 2013 when two teams, who both needed to win to stay up, set about doing absolutely nothing to help their cause. Discover more classic poetry with our pick of the best poems about sports, these classic baby poems, and these great Rudyard Kipling poems.

Given he started managing Halmstad at 29, surely the length of his career must be close to a world record? Hayes (1884-1940) was an actor as well as a poet, who is best-known for his poem ‘The Green Eye of the Yellow God’.

Back in the glory days when football was new, Sky used to give their man of the match a bottle of bubbly.

Writing poetry is a bridge that allows people to express their feelings and make others live every single word they read. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground. Away from these shores, Jordi Gomez points us towards ‘Ode to Plattkó’, in which the famous Spanish poet Rafael Alberti immortalises a Barcelona goalkeeper who played on after being knocked out in the 1928 Cup final, where Alberti was watching on from the terraces.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.