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 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern. Full of poems that will make you giggle about all things football, including being left out of the World Cup squad, mum's opinion on Messi vs Ronaldo, or those unmissable fixtures:I?

I’d recommend checking out Don Paterson’s ‘Nil Nil’, about the ignominious and tragicomic decline of a fictional Scottish football side; poet laureate Simon Armitage’s brilliantly titled ‘Goalkeeper with a Cigarette’; Sarah Wardle’s collection Score! 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. Julie is joined by leading Scottish Poets, Stuart Kenny and Susi Briggs, helping Scotland take its rightful place as the world football of football poetry. Here is a collection of fabulously funny poems put together by John Foster and illustrated with creative genius by Korky Paul.Eddy from Oxfordshire asks: “Following Diego Costa’s near-heroics against Barcelona on 30 June, has any player actually achieved the magnificent hat-trick of a missed penalty, an own goal and a red card? Given he started managing Halmstad at 29, surely the length of his career must be close to a world record?

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. He describes how every supporter feels an intense and personal type of grief when their team loses a match. In other countries, football is taken seriously enough, but only in Scotland is the game woven into the warp and weft of cultural life so seamlessly. The away fans serenaded the Stoke faithful with: “Going down, going down, going down … so are we, so are we, so are weeee-eeee!Perfect for football fans of all ages – from the young footie fanatic to a been-to-every-game-grandma, and every ‘I could’ve been a pro’ in between.