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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. We strive to remain accessible to "real people, real life" while also providing a resource to students, teachers and all those who love popular poetry.

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There’s a platter of wings, fries, celery and dips on the low-white table for grazing and everyone’s multitasking while watching the game.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. Results elsewhere, however, meant a win was not enough for the Laser Blues (as they were known at the time, to promote their kit deal with Kappa) and they joined the Potters in what was then Division Two.

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Stratford Park is a 56 acre park located just outside the centre of Stroud, with beautiful trees and a great range of facilities to suit all kinds of recreation. 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! So we asked you to get involved on social media by sending in your prose, dedicated to your favourite clubs and players. This poem is quite amazing, and I am sure that a lot of people would be touched like the way I have. Now with players on wages that could fund a small city, yet desire has lessened which seems such a pity.Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (23) was replaced by Ainsley Maitland-Niles (20) in the Arsenal v Leicester game. Ben Wilkinson digs further: “I can happily report many modern poets have written on the beautiful (and not so beautiful) game. Composite: Alamy/Reuters The former Labour leader Michael Foot penned a poem about Dixie Dean’s Everton. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. To date, we have published over 15 069 poems, amounting to +1141 poetry anthologies, by +7206 authors from every era- worldwide.