Scott Innes > Quotes

“But the thing that I’ve always said – and I absolutely stand by this today – is that if the league season had finished in January rather than May, we’d have won the title. And that’s what makes it such a bitter pill to swallow.”
― Scott Innes, Galactic Keegan

“I turned to look at my assistant, eyebrows raised in surprise at his interjection. For me, Gerry Francis is one in a million. No, let me dial that back a bit – one in a hundred, let’s say.”
― Scott Innes, Galactic Keegan

“This is General Lawrence Leigh, commander of the Palangonian Compound,’ he said, sounding so far up his own backside that his head was practically coming up through his throat.”
― Scott Innes, Galactic Keegan

“The place was like a ghost town. I hadn’t seen a football stadium so deserted since I agreed to let Graeme Le Saux use Wembley for his nineteenth-century Russian literature book club.”
― Scott Innes, Galactic Keegan

“What kind of data?’ I asked. This was getting dangerously close to being too technical for me. The first time I tried to use the internet on my home PC, I was following instructions that Gareth Southgate had written up for me. The first direction was: open a window. It was January – I nearly got bloody hypothermia sitting there. Never again.”
― Scott Innes, Galactic Keegan

“And yes, okay, there are some people who believe that funding a football team during a time of galactic war is an appalling frivolity – I won’t name names, that’s not my style, but General Leigh is one of them.”
― Scott Innes, Galactic Keegan

“I stared at the tribespeople in astonishment. Gerry Francis? A god? I mean, had they not seen his record at Tottenham?”
― Scott Innes, Galactic Keegan