Football Poets

Poem Of The Week + Shock Horror Rugby Plea ?

1 Poem Of The Week
2 Rugby Appeal …shock horror. but do read on!.
3 Butler & Dell’Oli …an item (in print).. honest !!
4 Give Us Back Our Game

1. POEM OF THE WEEK
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August RUN AFRICA RUN Ralph Hancock

2. RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007 POETRY APPEAL.

Dear readers and contributors, please allow this special
dispensation. The innovative web-site (click on coloured link)

OUR WORLD CUP was developed for the 2006 World Cup as a free football based educational resource and proved to be a staggering global success. We hope to do something similar for the rugby World Cup, and then the Olympics and so on and so on and so on. So, if you can pen anything about rugby then please post your offerings on to this site to me and mark them (Rugby). If any teachers wish to contribute worksheets etc then please let me know either via the e-mail link or in the submit a poem section. We hope to develop a totally cross-curricular rugby themed section on www.ourworldcup.co.uk – acting locally but thinking globally. It would be great to repeat the previous success through football of developing an international educational community. Just to reasssure the shocked out there among you , we guarantee NO Rugby , American/Aussie Rules Football, Hockey or Competitive Ironing poems will appear on THIS Football Poets site !
So please help if you can; many thanks, Stuart.

2 INCREDIBLE CREDIBILITY – NANCY DELL’ OLIO

Who would have thought that the humble Football Poets would appear in Nancy’s recently published autobiography? But, yes, folks, In an early chapter, Nancy Dell’Olio credits inspiration and quotes four lines from Stuart Butler’s poignant Christmas Truce poem about the First World War and football in the trenches . Amazingly, this appears to be how Nancy discovered just how powerful a truce and football can be in the world . I can just see Sven looking over her shoulder in wonder, can’t you? This may be a reason to buy the book – but it would be easier to find better reasons………..perhaps. Like the black silk trench coat on the cover, maybe? But seriously ” Well done Stu…if well done is apt that is! ” Crispin

3 GIVE US BACK OUR GAME
Just Playing? Coaching? Letting kids be?
Is the (Children’s)Beautiful Game ruled by adults, over-zealous parents and coaches? Sweaters or pressures for Goalposts? G.U.B.O.G are tackling the problem..

31 May Give us Back Our Game Crispin Thomas

Visit The ‘Give Us Back Our Game’ website.
‘Give Us Back Our Game’

A recent articles on ‘Give Us Back Our Game’ , in UEFA magazine..
with thanks to Paul Cooper of Give Us Back Our Game.

UEFA Magazine

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