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A Football By Any Other Name

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 “Nor tripped neither, you base football player…”
King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 What fool you? That you wouldst trip me
as I was about to score: Bard 1 Thine 0;

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 thou were sent packing, one red card won.
I picked myself up, plucked a blade of grass

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 from mine eye, placed the spot kick, squinted
at thine goalie, ran up, skied it over the bar!

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Christopher T. George

Notes

I understand that the mention of “football” in King Lear is the first mention of the term in the English language.

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/a-football-by-any-other-name/