Julissa

“In Coruña, people sit around on the sea walls or the rocks and stare out to sea, as if they expect Francis Drake to turn up again and sack the city. A contemplative lot, the Galicians.”
― Phil Ball, Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football

“I reserve the right to do what I like" he (Manuel Ruíz de Lopera) announced to the press, a statement that rather sums up the moral state of the game in Spain.”
― Phil Ball, Morbo - The Story of Spanish Football

“Barcelona fans labor under the touchingly innocent belief that everyone else in the world, apart from Real Madrid and Espanyol fans, is happy to accept that their club is the biggest on earth and quite simply the bees' knees of the whole footballing cosmos.”
― Phil Ball, Morbo - The Story of Spanish Football

“Que se jodan.'It was as if the girl had summed up, in three words, the way Spanish regions really feel about each other.”
― Phil Ball, Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football