With the Euro 2008 football (or soccer for our American readers) about to get underway, what better than a football poem by Gwilym Williams…


Just over the bar?
 

On the box and the bottle
their words are like the words of poets
– more powerful though less profound.
 
Those shirted logos speak
and millions gawp and gulp
– and take another sponsored swig.
 
Do we dare to hope
that brighter goals
may soon be on the way?


• Gwilym Williams is a regular IS&T contributor and living in 'mittel Europ' – he is going to be in the thick of things football-wise.