On the screen, the Jets defense broke through the Eagles o-line and quarterback Jalen Hurts, under pressure, threw an interception. Hayes (1884-1940) was an actor as well as a poet, who is best-known for his poem ‘The Green Eye of the Yellow God’.

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We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development.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! Stream-of-consciousness and almost prose poetry in its form, ‘Football’ takes a wry and humorous look at the game. Score a Goal with Football Poems – Celebrate the passion and thrill of the beautiful game with our collection of poetic verses!

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The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. Discover more classic poetry with our pick of the best poems about sports, these classic baby poems, and these great Rudyard Kipling poems. My Old Football’, which was set to music in the early twentieth century, is a fine football song/poem about the singer’s/poet’s close bond to his old football, because of the football’s close associations with the poet’s brother, who is off fighting in the war (see also Duffy’s poem below).

First visited Fratton Park with Chelsea (2-2) and stood among loads of sailors back in the old Second Dvision early 60s . 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. Literature and football may not seen like natural bedfellows, although it’s worth remembering that Albert Camus, the philosopher and author, was a goalkeeper, and that the American football team the Baltimore Ravens are named in honour of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem ‘The Raven’. It is written in the narrative of a football player who witnessed the spirit of his cheerleader girlfriend 20 years after she passed away.

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If we all just stuck to a healthy, all-steak diet, ‘Mad-lettuce-disease’ would fade away and America would be saved.I ride to the track put my goggles on I line up at the starting gate look around 20 other guys right.