Quotations

"In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested."
Rous, Stanley

"The roots of our soccer tribe lie deep in our primeval past."
Morris, Desmond

"I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back."
Morecambe, Eric

"The game is about those who pay and those who play."
O'Neil, Martin

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Plato

"The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis or running long distances. It is inherent in the people. It is built into the urban psyche."
Hopcraft, Arthur

"If Politics are to be anything else than an empty game, more exciting but less innocent than those which are confessedly games of skill or chance, it is toward this goal of the happiness of labour that they must make."
Morris, William

"the game is about those who pay and those who play."
O'Neill, Martin

" Twice a week through, Here I stood to keep the goal; Football then was fighting sorrow, For the young man's soul."
Houseman, AE

"The fans are the heart of football."
Charles, John