An Ode To Football, featuring Steven Gerrard, Ant Dec, Theo Walcott, John Bishop and

As a year of celebration draws to an end, The Football Association has today released an Ode to Football to commemorate its 150th anniversary. The poem talks of the nation s love for the game, from a grassroots through to elite level and captures the emotions experienced by football fans around the country. The poem is being released in the week that marks 150 years since the first game was played using the laws drafted by Ebenezer Cobb Morley in 1863. Entitled This is Football, Ode to Foot