Glovers fans pay literal tributes

Yeovil Town were promoted to the football league this year

A football club in the West has fired the imagination of two playwrights and several budding poets.

Yeovil Town and their first season in the football league is the subject of a new play by the Peter Quince Theatre Company, set up to develop professional theatre in Somerset.

The play, being written by fan Nick White, 23, will chart the life of two lifelong fans of the Town, Penny and Yandle.

With a working title of 'Up the Glovers', the play is expected to take in locations in Yeovil, feature Somerset traditions and the progress of Gary Johnson's green and white army in the 2003/04 season.

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The BBC in Somerset is also asking fans to wax lyrical about the team and publishing the rhyming results on the web.

The aim of the contest is to find a "bard of Huish" who will write a rhyming match report every week.

Mr White told BBC News Online: "The climax will be critical as Penny and Yandle's relationship reaches breaking point.

"They are both devoted to the Glovers, but are they devoted to each other any more?"

'Up the Glovers' is expected to receive its premiere at a charity night in Yeovil in July before embarking on a three-week run at the Edinburgh Festival in August, and a longer run back in the West.