Mark Wilberforce

It's interesting how the two of you are looking at this tournament as some form of beacon of light that will just illuminate not only the stadium that the game is played in, but more or less illuminating people's imaginations with the skills, the colours and the noises and the chants that we're expecting to hear at the World Cup.

Many football fans might say they don't read poetry, but they create chants, songs and stories.

Are football supporters already poets without even realising it?

Football supporters are definitely poets.

Poetry does appear spontaneously on the football terraces.

But Ian hasn't left his verse to chance.

He's worked hard over his poem for In The Studio, and the latest version is in.

Ian, I'm going to end with asking, who do you think will win the World Cup?

And can you maybe, in relation to hip hop artists, could you perhaps give us a freestyle of a line in terms of that nation who you think is going to win the World Cup?

Wow, Ian scores again.

Brilliant improvisation there from the poet Ian McMillan.

And may the best team win.

You've been listening to me, Mark Wilberforce, for the documentary In The Studio from the BBC World Service.

The producer was Paula McGrath.