11 of the best Valentine’s Day football poems

Valentine's Day is all about one thing: that's right, football.

Today marks the return of the Champions League, the anniversary of Kolo Touré's one and only Liverpool goal, and an opportunity for football fans around the world to pay tribute to the most beautiful person game in their life. https://twitter.com/PeleConfidentl/status/434400290347819008 As you're probably well aware, Valentine's Day brings out the best - and worst - in off-the-cuff poetry. And arguably the worst kind of bad poetry is bad football poetry. If we're getting more specific, it's bad football poetry set to the old favourite 'Roses are Red...'. With that in mind, we'd like to honour some of the best worst efforts doing the rounds today.

The Champions League One

The Special One

https://twitter.com/judeinlondon/status/831505482296725507

The Nostalgic One

https://twitter.com/caniggiascores/status/831500039981846528

The One About the New Signing

https://twitter.com/GameofThrowIns/status/831433781399715841

The One With the Full XI

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/831503649754980353

The North London One

https://twitter.com/willow1886/status/831376598595153920

The Topical One

https://twitter.com/Gary_G_G/status/831409791734013953

The Self-Deprecating One

https://twitter.com/Sunlunfan/status/831490086378291200

The Portuguese One

https://twitter.com/GPAULO10237/status/831580459964432384

The North-East One

https://twitter.com/dgordon1990/status/831493060529881089

And, finally, the one that doesn't slip

https://twitter.com/liamlackey/status/831268869897609216