For all its critics, we should remember football can be poetry in motion

“And we believe in football, As we believe in song”

For all its critics, we should remember football can be poetry in motion

“And we believe in football,As we believe in song”

So wrote Gabriel Fitzmaurice in a collection of his work published in 2009, entitled In Praise of Football. Here, Mikey Sheehy isunderstood as “Nureyev with a football” and the game he played is portrayed as an art.

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