Ben

“Six minutes earlier a message had been flashed from the touchline : 'Tell Bobby (Charlton) to move up front'. We were still searching for that elusive second goal. But fortunately, the message didn't have time to get through as Bobby, playing deep, engineered a move that led to (George) Best flicking a (Pat) Crerand ball round the defence for (David) Sadler to run in and snap home. Bobby still hadn't got the first message when another one came from the line : 'Tell Bobby to stay deep.”
― Nobby Stiles, Soccer my battlefield;

“Management is like chess, even though the pieces perform themselves. They're not bits of wood - they've got their own minds, their own bodies and their own abilities. But you can position them where you want and hope the strategy works out. You try to out-fox and out-manoeuvre the opposition manager. Do you do that by leaving a piece in a certain place to affect what the opposition is going to do? Or do you keep pieces in station?”
― Leon Osman, Ossie: My Autobiography

“Skill without fitness is like chips without fish! One goes with the other. It just isn't good enough if you haven't got fitness to go with whatever degree of skill you have at your command.”
― Johnny Byrne, The strategy of soccer

“I have come for advice."
"That is easily got."
"And help."
"That is not always so easy.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips