“Nobody grows up idolising the right back. Well, maybe Gary Neville, but nobody normal.”
― THE GAME: Player. Pundit. Fan
― THE GAME: Player. Pundit. Fan
“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.”
― Soccer my battlefield;
― Soccer my battlefield;
“I have come for advice."
"That is easily got."
"And help."
"That is not always so easy.”
― The Five Orange Pips
"That is easily got."
"And help."
"That is not always so easy.”
― The Five Orange Pips
“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.”
― The strategy of soccer
― The strategy of soccer
“I am never wrong. I may later turn out not to be right but my decision was not wrong when I made it.”
― Soccer at the top;: My life in football
― Soccer at the top;: My life in football
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