The Beautiful Poetry Of Football Commentary

Author : Charlie Eccleshare
Publisher : Seven Dials
ISBN 13 : 1399604090
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary written by Charlie Eccleshare and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roma have risen from their ruins! Manolas, the Greek God in Rome! The unthinkable unfolds before our eyes. This was not meant to happen, this could not happen . . . this is happening! Peter Drury If football is the beautiful game, then commentators are its poets. Whether it's the brevity of Barry Davies, the boundless enthusiasm of Clive Tyldesley or the sheer eloquence of Peter Drury's monologues, the canon of football commentary is replete with memorable lines that would have some of the great classical orators nodding in appreciation. Curated by football journalist Charlie Eccleshare, The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary is a glorious anthology of iconic lines, set out as poems, celebrating the best commentators that have ever graced a microphone. Each poem is accompanied by 'scholarly' analysis capturing the enduring power of language on the beautiful game. So, drink it in, and immerse yourself in classic verse from Ali Brownlee, Andy Gray, Brian Moore, David Coleman, John Motson, Jon Champion, Jonathan Pearce, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Martin Tyler, and many more. ----- "It is a privilege to be part of this excellent work" - Martin Tyler "There have been some brilliant lines of commentary down the years and Charlie's academic deconstruction of them is terrific." - Peter Drury

Author : Gregg Easterbrook
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780789306517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tuesday Morning Quarterback written by Gregg Easterbrook and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular football commentary on the e-zine "Slate", this is a collection of haikus, Zen poetry, historical allusions, and other conceits Easterbrook uses to creates fresh commentary on the philosophy of the game. 50 illustrations.

Author : Conor O'Callaghan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907598586
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eleven Poems about Football written by Conor O'Callaghan and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adam Hurrey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698409272
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football Clichés written by Adam Hurrey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, intelligent, and useful guide to understanding the nuanced language of soccer Every week, year-round, legions of devoted soccer fans across the country rise at the crack of dawn or quietly sneak out of work to watch their favorite teams play across the pond—complete with a soundtrack of two cheeky Englishmen spouting a stream of trite phrases and curious words that make maddeningly little sense. They’ll chat about flying teacups and cultured left feet, or point out a player who’s jinking through the corridor of uncertainty, hoping to bag one with aplomb. Confused? Many Brits are, too. In Football Clichés, London-based soccer writer Adam Hurrey amusingly translates the idioms of the sport, from the quaint to the ridiculous. Here you’ll find words for parts of the field and parts of the body; for ways to score a goal and ways to run, walk, or fake an injury. You’ll learn to read the shifting moods of fans at a soccer match and encounter the game’s oddly expressive gestures, which include the muted celebration and the beleaguered manager clap. Perfect for the die-hard or fair-weather fan, Football Clichés celebrates the world of soccer in all its glory.

Author : Tony Bradman
Publisher : Hachette Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780750242790
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love You, Football written by Tony Bradman and published by Hachette Children's Books. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for 8 -12 year olds, this work features a collection of poems about football covering a variety of aspects of football, both as sport and popular culture, from going to watch your favourite team, to kicking about in the park, collecting the club strip, and playing for the school. It treats the theme seriously, though not without humour.

Author : Walter the Educator
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781088193037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Football (Soccer) Poetry Book written by Walter the Educator and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Football (Soccer) Poetry Book brings together the love of football (soccer) and poetry; it will make the perfect gift for the football (soccer) fan and add to your football (soccer) sports collection. Educator, Author, and Poet, Walter the Educator created The Little Football (Soccer) Poetry Book for all the football (soccer) lovers across the world. Known for being the world's most popular sport, The Little American Football Poetry Book includes unique poems representing football topics associated with the lovable game, making it the perfect gift for the football (soccer) lover. Creating a poetry book about football (soccer) can be a unique way of exploring the game. Poetry can give a fresh perspective and bring an imaginative approach to understanding and appreciating the game of football (soccer). Moreover, it can bridge the gap between sports and art and appeal to a larger audience. Overall, a poetry book about football (soccer) can be an appealing and creative way to engage with the game that so many people love.

Author : Don Paterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571259328
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nil Nil written by Don Paterson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream-life and class politics, mystery and music, sex and drink all play an essential part in this collection of poetry.

Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 030743348X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am the Messenger written by Markus Zusak and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF AND AN UNFORGETTABLE AND SWEEPING FAMILY SAGA. From the author of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger is an acclaimed novel filled with laughter, fists, and love. A MICHAEL L. PRINTZ HONOR BOOK FIVE STARRED REVIEWS Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?

Author : Lashauna D. Hinton
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781478718710
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lyrically Lost in Love written by Lashauna D. Hinton and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is an amazing gift. We are all faced with many challenges throughout our lives and in the midst of them all, is love. Love is a lifelong journey. Along your travels of heart, there are peaks and valleys. At times it may be exciting, complicated, and even selfish. Being love and being in love have different meanings. The reward for living a happier and more fulfilling life extends from loving yourself first. Your conscious will contribute to you sharing love and light with others; once youre aware that love is already within. Youll find yourself lost in songs of the heart as you travel Lyrically Lost In Love. The journey is forever?Ǫ Choose Love ?Ǫ Agape ?Ǫ Love Harder. ?ÖÑ

Author : David Orr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014310957X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Not Taken written by David Orr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of American literature “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice. Praise for The Road Not Taken: “The most satisfying part of Orr’s fresh appraisal of ‘The Road Not Taken’ is the reappraisal it can inspire in longtime Frost readers whose readings have frozen solid. The crossroads between the poet and the man is where Frost leaves his poems for us to discover, turning what seems like a fork in the road into a site of limitless potential.” —The Boston Globe