Ben

“I am never wrong. I may later turn out not to be right but my decision was not wrong when I made it.”
― Matt Busby, Soccer at the top;: My life in football

“It's obvious that different players have different requirements. What I do in a game is maybe 50 sprints and walk; I hardly ever jog. My game is bang, go, whereas Didi Hamann would sprint maybe once in a game and jog around the rest of the time.”
― Michael Owen, Michael Owen: Off the Record

“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

“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;