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Poetry | ‘View well this Ball, the present of your Lords …’
We publish an excerpt from Matthew Concanen the Elder’s 1720 canto describing a six-a-side football match in Dublin—at variance with a traditional view that only the frenzied folk football variety was contested at the time. The players “around the field in decent order stand …” (Mar 13)
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Writes Eduardo Galeano of the new collection from University of Nebraska Press, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, "At the end, soccer believers will confirm ... that they have never been alone. And pagans will be converted." Go to website »
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Such moments in the spin of a ball make us sit up with delight, returning hope to the hopeless and faith to the faithless, bringing back memories of our fathers, our childhoods, or simply other such nanoseconds we have experienced. (Marcela Mora y Araujo, Guardian Unlimited, 6 Jul 07)
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