My new book called Football's Poetic Licence.

 My new book

Oh well it's book promotion time for yours truly. Yes folks yours truly has gone into print again with the publication of my fifth book called Football's Poetic Licence. Now for those of you who simply can't stand football and believe that it's nothing more than a sport for muddied oafs then you might want to stop for a minute and re-consider your options. Football is now commonly and historically regarded as the Beautiful Game, a game of vivid ball skills, close control, passing, shooting, tackling, beating the offside trap, defensive discipline and attacking brilliance. 

When the first public schools and universities first took football to the newest levels of prominence and publicity all those centuries ago, none of us knew that the game would achieve such a dramatic popularity seemingly overnight. Now it remains the global game, the game we used to acknowledge on a Saturday afternoon at three o'clock in the afternoon but now accept as a different phenomenon. Football is now played, or seemingly so, at any time of the day, month or week. It does seem to have morphed into the weekend sport that just finds random places in our gruelling work/play schedule. 

Football is the Premier League, the Championship, League One and League Two. It is all about VAR, modern technology, white sprays, referees who seem to change the colours of their clothing each and every week, the players, the coaches, the dug outs, the tears and tantrums and managers performing all manner of theatrical histrionics. There's Jurgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager, who seems to be at permanent war with not only the officials but everybody who doesn't agree with him. There's Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City manager, who has now produced the most ravishingly beautiful Manchester City team. And yet although City have now won a whole clutch of Premier League titles, Guardiola always looks as though he's lost his wallet and blown everything on the gambling casinos.

But I wonder if I could kindly turn your attention back to my new book called Football's Poetic Licence currently available at Amazon but will be distributed to yet more retail online book shops such as Waterstones, Foyles and Barnes and Noble online in due course. Football's Poetic Licence is football as poetry in motion. It is a book about vividly lyrical description, thought provoking imagery, rhyming in some cases but, above all, it's a book that will bring a smile or chuckle while you're sitting on a train, bus, drinking tea or coffee in a cafe, waiting at a railway platform or just looking for an entertaining read. 

I've always loved writing and have always written for as long as I can remember and have now taken that love to its logical progression. Throughout Football's Poetic Licence you'll find everything from poems about my football team West Ham United but also a whole variety of different themes ranging from the men's Euro 2020 squad, nostalgic poems about the World Cup, the FA Cup in all its splendour, one about my local team growing up Ilford Football Club, Premier League reviews in poetic homage form, my wonderful and lovely grandpa and dad. So before Christmas if you feel like dipping into or becoming deeply immersed into a book that is original, I think amusing and football as poetry in motion then this is definitely the book for you. Football's Poetic Licence is now at Amazon by Joe Morris. Thanks everybody.