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50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems

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The collection brings together popular culture with literature, fan with critic, and brings together subject matters as unlikely as the header and philosophy. The away fans serenaded the Stoke faithful with: “Going down, going down, going down … so are we, so are we, so are weeee-eeee! By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.

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 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.

Stream-of-consciousness and almost prose poetry in its form, ‘Football’ takes a wry and humorous look at the game. You could start by looking for poems and readings that reflect their favourite hobby – whether that’s music, history or their local football team. The poet takes his son to a Liverpool game and thinks back about his own youth, when tea was cheap and supporters didn’t wear jester’s hats. Julie McNeill leads our mission to encourage the masses to put ‘pen to paper’ and submit their work into our growing poetry collection, heralding their football heroes. SWNT is the world’s first National Football Team Poetry Society, launched in 2019 and contains over 40 poems.

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. Guaranteed to delight, this is a perfect introduction to poetry (and football) either at home or at school. It’s about the 2006 World Cup final, with the truly magnifique translated chorus: ‘Zidane hit it, Zidane beat it, headbutt! 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.

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. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.Become immersed in the emotion and personality of the game as these poems reflect human experience in its sheer diversity of feeling and being.

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