50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems

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Perhaps the most famous football match in European history is the Christmas truce of 1914, when the soldiers fighting in No Man’s Land sang songs and carols at each other from their trenches, and played impromptu games of football.

All submissions are carefully reviewed and the best are included within the finest collection of football poetry on the planet. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.In this article, you’ll find a selection of poems on football and death, as well as some inspirational football funeral readings from literature.

All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge. The power of sport in such situations is the ‘mirth’ it provides the speaker: he can keep his mind from gloomier thoughts by joining his fellow man for a football or cricket match. 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 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.There are no football verses in the Christian Bible, but Paul Cookson’s ‘The Footballer’s Prayer’ feels a bit like a religious reading. Over the years he's also worked successfully in partnership with Road Safety officers combining the road safety message with creative writing. Here is a collection of fabulously funny poems put together by John Foster and illustrated with creative genius by Korky Paul. Back in the glory days when football was new, Sky used to give their man of the match a bottle of bubbly. 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.