Friends, Poets, Teachers, lend me your ears and pens for Kick It Out
Hello folks – here’s some lesson plans for the Kick It Out competition – I’ll be using this with my school for some Citizenship/RS work – please adapt as suits. If anyfootie poets could come up with something after research of the following then that would be brilliant – please send through to this website. Best regards, Stuart.
KICK RACISM OUT OF FOOTBALL COMPETITION
Many people do not understand Islam or Muslim people. This is especially so after 9/11. Many people have stereotyped Muslims as supporters of Osama Bin Laden. In fact, the Muslim faith opposes violence.
Every year KICK RACISM OUT OF FOOTBALL teams up with BLACK HISTORY MONTH to celebrate the contribution made by Black Britons to our history and heritage. We do that again this year, but we also want to stop IGNORANCE ABOUT ISLAM. We do this through the COMPETITION.
PRIZES:
NATIONAL PRIZES:
VIP England World Cup tickets; local team tickets; footie kit and equipment for schools; replica shirts; t-shirts signed by Premiership players.
SCHOOL PRIZES:
Badges; t-shirts; school equipment; praise slips; merits etc.
The Competition
1. Wants you to get inside the head of a famous Muslim such as Nicholas Anelka, “Freddy” Kanoute, Amir Khan, Konnie Huq, Muhammed Ali, Zesh Rehman, Ikram Butt etc. (see HELP PACK FOR INFORMATION ON THESE PEOPLE) (other schools – contact www.kickitout.org for material)
2. You will do this by producing a 750 word diary about the impact of the first day of RAMADAN. (SEE HELP PACK AND LATER FACTS ABOUT RAMADAN AND LIST OF BRILLIANT WEB SITES FOR RESEARCH)
3. Diaries can include facts about Ramadan. Diaries can also include writing about emotional feelings (hopes, fears, worries, joy, commitment etc) about Ramadan.
4. Your work should look like a diary and it should be written in the first person. You can include pictures etc.
5. Your diary will be for October 15th.
HELPFUL INFORMATION:
1. Ramadan runs from October to November and ends with the festival of Eid-al-Fitr. This festival ends the fasting.
2. Fasting means total abstinence from food, drink and tobacco from dawn to dusk for this period.
3. Fasting helps bind people together – the rich feel the pangs of hunger and so know how the very poor must feel.
4. Ramadan has a big impact upon peoples’ daily lives – something that is not always understood by non-Muslim work or school colleagues.
5. Ramadan is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. Students may wish to say something about the other 4 pillars.
6. You may also wish to say something about the history of Ramadan – its history and the reasoning behind it.
7. You may also want to mention the rules about fasting and who is exempt.
8. You may also wish to mention other elements of Ramadan that are important to the fasting – eg, visiting family and friends; giving money to charities; attending regular prayers etc.
9. You may also want to mention how you will have to adapt your life during Ramadan – eg, your physical and mental energy may go down and so you might have to limit the things that you do. A big problem for a footballer or rugby player, don’t you think?
10. You might want to mention how non-Muslim friends and colleagues react to you and Ramadan.
11. You might also want to mention what you have planned for Eid.
12. You might also want to think about why we know so little about famous Muslim footballers – I have never heard the TV speak about Anelka and Kanoute being Muslim.
REALLY HELPFUL WEBSITES:
1. www.kickitout.org – general information about the project.
2. www.bbc.co.uk click on this and then enter ISLAM into the search box; check out CUSTOMS and click on SAWM.
3. www.channel4.co.uk only useful for clicking on HISTORY and then the BLACK AND ASIAN HISTORY MAP and then the SOUTH WEST and GLOUCESTER to see what we have done on this site before.
4. www.ramadan.co.uk click on the right hand side WHAT TO DO IN RAMADAN and EXPLAINING RAMADAN TO OTHER FAITHS. This site is also a gateway to other sites.
5. www.islam.about.com Information on Islam in general and Ramadan in particular. Good downloads of pictures and interviews etc.
6. www.islamfortoday.com In depth information about Islam today and the future.
7. www.islamcity.com Good downloadable material on Islam in general and Ramadan in particular.
REMEMBER – RESEARCH- ROUGH NOTES – FIRST DRAFT – TEACHER COMMENTS – 2ND DRAFT – HAND IN FOR COMMENTS – FINISHED PIECE.
WORK WILL BE SENT THROUGH TO THE AWARD WINNING www.irespect.net if you and your parents/guardians/carers would like that.
WORK ALSO SENT THROUGH TO KICK IT OUT.
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27th November 2024 at 5:55 am
‘You’re Supposed To Be At Home’ is an excellent and moving poem Denys.
You start off thinking it’s just about another oft-sung chant, one we personally heard a lot last season throughout our second relegation in a row here at Forest Green(FGR) ! I always love poems where you think they are saying one thing and then they suddenly pull you deeper to somewhere or something else else.
I’m currently helping in a local school for FGR in a voluntary capacity using football to help young students with reading. At an upcoming session we will tackle racism, just like we did in workshops at football schools and grounds when we first started this site 24 years ago. I’m gonna try and weave your poem into a session.
We’ve added it to the Anti- Racism/Kick It Out section under Crispin’s Corner.
Best C
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26th November 2024 at 1:59 pm
Great poem and great to see you back Wyn.
Don’t leave it so long next time my friend!
More please.
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13th September 2024 at 6:14 pm
Welcome to Football Poets Beth
Great evocative poem Beth….
More please !
Haiku always welcome.
Hope we (FGR) get to play you again soon
Best
Crispin
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26th July 2024 at 6:25 pm
Great poem Mike Bartram. Eddie was a legend, affectionately known in Liverpool as, “the first hooligan.” Even the hoolies were well dressed in those days. The amazing thing was he was only 26 when that picture was taken. He’d played for Everton youth team and was well known to the players. He never got arrested. They threw him out and he climbed back in, just in time for Derek Temples winner.
I used the picture of him being tackled to the ground on the front cover of my book, “Once Upon a rhyme in Football.” It’s worth looking on youtube and finding the re-enactment of the Wembley scene. Frank Skinner and Baddiel went around to Eddies home in the 1990’s and acted it out on the green outside. It’s hilarious, especially all the effort they put in to get Eddie sober enough to shoot the scene.
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10th July 2024 at 6:07 pm
Hi Crispin,
I don’t know if you’ve see the picture in social media today…
a picture of a teenage Lionel Messi cradling a baby in Africa as part of a photoshoot…. the family had won a lottery to have their baby pictured with him….
the photographer has just revealed that the baby is actually in fact Lamine Yamal!!!!
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26th May 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi Denys…
Re Man City:
OK it was 20 years ago but Criag Wilson did write this and a few others on them back in 04/05.
BTW I’m more Forest Green Rover since 2014 (and Chelsea) these days . I drum and am a standing season ticket holder .
Best
Crispin
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29th April 2024 at 2:47 pm
Hi Denys,
Yes Richard Williams you’re a brilliant wordsmith, my friend. When I first saw your football poetry I thought it was the superb Guardian sports and music writer. I once had the honour of sitting next to Richard Williams while at the Independent on the sports desk. He writes about music and sport with immense knowledge and authority. I’ve read a couple of Richard’s books recently. Great writer rather like you Richard Williams the Pompey fan. Congratulations on promotion.
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28th April 2024 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Denys. Yes your replay poem was superb.
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26th April 2024 at 4:46 pm
Nice work, Joe. You were quick off the mark with that! Good one from Richard Williams too I see.
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25th April 2024 at 7:33 pm
Hi Denys,
Thanks mate. I’ll do it now.
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