Ishan Negi

“In more than one hundred years of football history, in a country where scandals have been the norm, not the exception, the number of cases involving referees could be counted on the fingers of one hand. This had not helped their reputation. Venduto! – crook – was still the most common insult hurled at the men and women in black every Sunday afternoon.”
― John Foot, Calcio: A History of Italian Football

“Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports.”
― David Winner, Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

“God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.”
― David Winner, Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

“Catenaccio is like a Titian painting – soft, seductive and languid. The Italians welcome and lull you and seduce you into their soft embrace, and score a goal like the thrust of a dagger.”
― David Winner, Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football