Football poems for funerals Nostalgic and inspirational funeral poems for a football fan My Old Football by J. Thus, along with the three you can find via the link above, I’m adding Ortolani’s poem to the Super Bowl Hall of Poetry Fame. In this article, you’ll find a selection of poems on football and death, as well as some inspirational football funeral readings from literature. In simple terms, it finds a simple truth about football and what the game means to boys who take it seriously.

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. There are poems about everything from training to match day, after match analysis, honest football chants and half-time satsumas.

Here is a collection of fabulously funny poems put together by John Foster and illustrated with creative genius by Korky Paul. We also recommend The Oxford Book of English Verse – perhaps the best poetry anthology on the market (we offer our pick of the best poetry anthologies here, and list the best books for the poetry student here). On the last day of the 1997-98 season, Manchester City beat Stoke City 5-2 to condemn them to the third flight.

It’s a playful, humorous take on the Lord’s Prayer, where ‘Hallowed be thy name’ becomes ‘Hallowed be thy game’ and ‘Amen’ becomes ‘Full time’. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge.Yes, in our case, with two going down to the Conference, it could be entitled ‘Two Teams Worse Than Us’, but three would make us feel even safer.

There are no football verses in the Christian Bible, but Paul Cookson’s ‘The Footballer’s Prayer’ feels a bit like a religious reading. You can read as many as you want, and also submit your own poems to share your writings with all our poets, members, and visitors. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. That becomes clear when you read Findlay’s latest work, 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems, an edited odyssey through the nation’s cultural history, seen through the prisms of poetry and football.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. 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.

Writing poetry is a bridge that allows people to express their feelings and make others live every single word they read. 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. My son and his Step Dad bought season tickets for Fulham before they ascended into the Premiership after Al Fayad bought the club, on the basis that eventually, they would get to see Premiership football – which worked. If you polled one hundred 50-year-old men who played high school football “back in the day” (as everyone says “up in this day”), you’d find a more nuanced response.It covers lots of topics, but one of its main points is that football can be a powerful source of inspiration for normal, working people. The Hampden Collection created its poetry section on 26th March 2018, with Stephen Watt as its inaugural Poet In Chief. Composite: Alamy/Reuters View image in fullscreen The former Labour leader Michael Foot penned a poem about Dixie Dean’s Everton. Ben Wilkinson digs further: “I can happily report many modern poets have written on the beautiful (and not so beautiful) game.