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Football Quotes thread

Number9

Senior Squad
Hi Everyone,
A number of people I know have some real quality (funny/stupid) footy quotes from people such as Venables, Robson, Atkinson etc.

I just thought id make a thread where people can post up any good, funny quotes or just anything that makses you think "what ?" said by anyone involved in football.

I'll start us off with a few :).

'To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.' - RUUD GULLIT

'It's the end of season curtain raiser' - PETER WITHE

'They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.' - JIMMY HILL

'If there's a weakness in Chelsea's defence, it's in their defence.' - Radio 5

'If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.' - TERRY VENABLES

'Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.' - TREVOR BROOKING

'Zola's got two feet.' - DAVID PLEAT

'He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.' - BOBBY ROBSON

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That will do for now, although there are plenty more where that came from...

Anyone else got any ?
 

Kris

Reserve Team
Ah yea, got plenty of these! a few of my favourites...

Football
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''My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.''
David Beckham

''If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.''
Neville Southall

''I've had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable.''
Paul Gascoigne

''I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.''
Mark Draper

Non-Football
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"It is white."
- George W. Bush, when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

Theres a few ;) ill post more later
 

Kris

Reserve Team
Oh yeh, and heres one, which is now out of date thanks to Peter Risdale and his leeds cash-in.

''Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesbrough.''
Jonathan Woodgate
 
another one from wenger... " the highbury pitch is too small that's why we got so many red cards..." :p
 
sorry guys... now from houllier after drawing the match against man u in 1999 - "one day we will beat man united i promise u that...."
 

Deutschland

Starting XI
Originally posted by Kris
Oh yeh, and heres one, which is now out of date thanks to Peter Risdale and his leeds cash-in.

''Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesbrough.''
Jonathan Woodgate
LOL!

Its sort of like I saying "Melboure is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Adelaide"
 

antithesis

Permanently Banned - Annoying
Life Ban
Amika brought me out of retirement

Houllier

Feb1st "Our season starts now" Yeah mate. It does

Dec12, 15, 23, 30, Jan 2,8, 26 " We have turned the corner"


Tsk, tsk, tsk.

But my favourite, absolute Houllier favourite is after the West Ham game

"I feel sorry for West Ham because they came up against a VERY STRONG Liverpool team"


Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahaahaha.
 
Originally posted by antithesis
Amika brought me out of retirement

Houllier

Feb1st "Our season starts now" Yeah mate. It does

Dec12, 15, 23, 30, Jan 2,8, 26 " We have turned the corner"


Tsk, tsk, tsk.

But my favourite, absolute Houllier favourite is after the West Ham game

"I feel sorry for West Ham because they came up against a VERY STRONG Liverpool team"


Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahaahaha.


hahahahaa.... i know all my quote there will definitely bring u back... :D:rockman:
 

monkee

Senior Squad
I hope this fits

Ones I've got from the web:

'Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down.' - JONATHAN PEARCE

'Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.' - IAN DARKE

'Lee Sharpe has got dynamite in his shorts' - STUART HALL

'It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the scoreline on Saturday.' - RADIO 5 LIVE

'Steve Agnew is over this free kick - what do you think of the situation here,Steve Agnew?' - NEVILLE FOULGER

'You don't score 64 goals in 86 games without being able to score goals.' - ALAN GREEN

'Nicky Butt, he's another aptly named player. He joins things, brings one sentence to an end and starts another.' - BARRY DAVIES

'Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals.' - TONY GUBBA

'...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.' - IAN DARKE

'If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.' - GERALD SINSTADT

'It's as if there's a magnet on the outside of the posts and bar.' - JOHN HELM

'He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.' - ALAN PARRY

'It was one of the best goals I've seen this millennium.' - TONY GUBBA

'Bruce, on his right foot, is still running...' - ALAN GREEN

'Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.' - BARRY DAVIES

'Some supporters have come down onto the pitch from over the edge of the upper tier.' - NEVILLE FOULGER

'The long goal kick, and now, this could fall...' - GERALD 'not Issac Newton' SINSTADT

'He went through a non-existent gap.' - CLIVE TYLDESLEY

'Peru score their third, and it's 3-1 to Scotland.' - DAVID COLEMAN

'The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.' - BARRY DAVIES

'Liverpool will be without Kvarme tonight - he's illegible.' - JIMMY ARMFIELD

'One or two people are streaming away.' - Radio 5 Live commentator

'He [Cole] is good in the air as well as off the ground...' - Metro FM commentator

'...he's using his favourite left foot..' - ITV commentator

'He's the proverbial brick door.' - Commentator

'...like a predator about to devour the target.' - ALAN PARRY

'And Rush, quick as a needle...' - RON JONES

'And Southampton have most assuredly lost their confidence in this second half.' - MIKE MCGEE

'Dewalt had all kinds of time momentarily.' - PAT MARSDEN

'And the bald head of John Sillett leaps from the bench.' - STUART LINNELL

'Dumbarton player Steve McCahill has limped off with a badly cut forehead.' - TOM PERRIE

'Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front.' - MARTIN TYLER

'There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.' - Carlos YOUNGBLOOD

'30 minutes to go, and it's still 1-0 apiece.' - Commentator

'Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on.' - JOHN HELM

'It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.' - DEREK RAE

'Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.' - MIKE INGHAM

'The shot from Laws was precise but wide.' - ALAN PARRY

'It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.' - ALAN GREEN

'And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.' - IAN DARKE

'Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.' - DAVID ACFIELD

'...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.' - ARCHIE MACPHERSON

'I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.' - ARCHIE MACPHERSON

'Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh pair of legs up his sleeve.' - JOHN GREIG

'Sporting Lisbon in their green and white hoops, looking like a team of zebras...' - PETER JONES

'...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.' - MIKE INGHAM

'Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.' - TONY ADAMSON

'The Dutch fans look like a huge jar of marmalade' - BARRY DAVIES

'Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball.' - SIMON BROTHERTON

'That youngster is playing well beyond his 19 years - that's because he's 21.' - DAVID BEGG

'Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds.' - PETER JONES

'Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.' - BARRY DAVIES

'The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.' - JOHN HELM

'The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan' - DAVID COLEMAN

'It's been seventeen years since Celtic first won this competition, and after tonight it could be 18.' - RODDY FORSYTH

'McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee...' - MARTIN TYLER

'Ian Rush is deadly ten times out of ten, but that wasn't one of them.' - PETER JONES

'52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.' - BRYON BUTLER

'For those who know Selhurst Park, West Ham are playing from right to left.' - Unknown

'It's only the absence of a goal we're waiting for.' - Unknown

'He's 31 this year : last year he was 30.' - DAVID COLEMAN

'The pace of the match is really accelerating, by which I mean it is getting faster all the time.' - DAVID COLEMAN

'That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed.' - ARCHIE MacPHERSON

'The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.' - ALAN PARRY

'2-0 is a cricket score in Italy' - ALAN PARRY

'Emile Zola has scored again for Chelsea' - Radio 5 Live

'The crowd think that Todd handled the ball... they must have seen something that nobody else did.' - BARRY DAVIES

'These two clubs had a monopoly of the domestic honours last season.' - TONY GUBBA

'Four minutes to go... four long minutes... three-hundred and sixty seconds...' - ALISTAIR ALEXANDER

'Now that [a goal scored from an acute angle] is defying the laws of gravity.' - HARRY NEAL

'Vialli's absolutely certain that he knows one way or the other whether he'll score or not.' - JONATHAN PEARCE

'Now Zola tries to inject some speed...' - RON JONES

'The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby.' - TONY GUBBA

'The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties...' - MARTIN TYLER

'He had a very impressive first debut.' - GLR

'Ferguson hasn't scored since the opening day of the season - he's not a natural striker.' (five minutes later) 'Ferguson! At last a goal from him... natural instincts from a former Scottish striker.' - ROB PALMER

'...if that had crossed the line it would have been a goal.' - GARY BLOOM

'That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?' - CLIVE TYLESDLEY
 

monkee

Senior Squad
It didn't fit. Here's part 2.

'Knight saved it with his back arm' - IAN BROWN

'The silence is getting louder.' - DAVE WOODS

'A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.' - JOHN CHAMPION

'These Scottish players are very ordinary. In fact they have no names.' - HAMMED ADIO (Zimbabwean TV)

'It's Denmark 3 Denmark 0...' - IAN BROWN

'He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.' - TONY GUBBA

'That's lifted the crowd up into the air.' - BARRY DAVIES

'Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.' - MIKE INGHAM

'Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.' - JIMMY MAGEE

'Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him... Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.' - MIKE INGHAM

RON ATKINSON : 'Unfortunately it goes right down the goalkeeper's throat...'
JOHN HELM : '...where it hits him on the knees.'

'He had to get down low to save that one on the ground' - BARRY DAVIES

'Rangers are definitely on the back heel now' - ARCHIE MACPHERSON

'The crowd... a cacophony of colour' - PETER DRURY

'Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...' - JON CHAMPION

'This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.' - ALAN GREEN

'In this sort of match, whoever scores the most goals wins' - PORTUGUESE COMMENTATOR

'Benfica scored one in the first half, Boavista scored one in the second half, Benfica wasn't able to score anything in the second half, that makes 1-1, so the score is correct.' - PORTUGUESE COMMENTATOR

'Paneira with his unmistakable style... but no, it's not him' - PORTUGUESE COMMENTATOR

'Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.' - JOHN HELM

'The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.' - BARRY DAVIES

'It's deja vu all over again.' - GARY BLOOM

'He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'At the beginning it was a 90 minute game, at halftime it was a 45 minute game and now it's even shorter.' - ABC COMMENTATOR

'Madrid are like a rabbit dazed in the headlights of a car, except this rabbit has a suit of armour, in the shape of two precious away goals.' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.' - ALAN PARRY

'Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.' - JIMMY MAGEE

'As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.' - GUY MOWBRAY

'I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.' - ANGUS LOUGHRAN

'He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.' - CLIVE TYLDESLEY

'And Swansea have an uphill mountain to climb now.' - JOHN HARDY

'There’s 30 minutes gone and we’re in the first quarter of the game.' - JON CHAMPION

'He's scored the winning goal three minutes after being sent off' - CANADIAN COMMENTATOR

'Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.' - ALAN PARRY

'Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing' - ALAN GREEN

'There's always one [FA Cup 3rd round upset] and the egg at the moment is heading squarely for Charlton's door' - STEVE WILSON

'Here he comes... with his left foot' - RON JONES

'The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like...' - ALAN GREEN

'Silvestre has had the whites of the goal in his eyes ever since...' - IAN DARKE

'They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.' - SIMON BROTHERTON

'There's Ottmar Hitzfeld, the two year old Bayern Munich manager.' - MIKE HILL

'There's no end to the stoppage of this drama' - ALAN PARRY

George Hamilton: 'Roy Carsley has it.'
Jim Beglin: 'Lee Carsley, George.'
George Hamilton: 'Ah yes, perhaps it's because his head reminds me of Ray Wilkins.'

'We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals' - GEORGE HAMILTON

'We are about as far away from the penalty box as the penalty box is from us.' - TOM TYRRELL

'And the average age of Arsenal defense is over 100 years' - TVB Pearl (Hong Kong) commentator

'One or two of their players aren't getting any younger' - CLIVE TYLDESLEY

'Saravakos centers for Saravakos...' - MANOLIS MAVROMATIS

'Corner from a good position.' - MANOLIS MAVROMATIS

'Stockport usually play at Edgeley Park, but this time they've come to Maine Road, because, um, this is an away game' - OSKU LAUKKANEN

'Chris Waddle is off the field at the moment, exactly the position he is at his most menacing.' - GERALD SINSTADT

'It's Ipswich 0 Liverpool 2, and if that's the way the score stays then you've got to fancy Liverpool to win.' - PETER JONES

'It’s a tough month for Liverpool over the next five or six weeks.' - ALAN GREEN

'Luckily Macclesfield have three or four supporters running back into the box to defend' - JOHN MURRAY

'Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation' - JOHN HELM

'So often the pendulum continues to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole' - TONY GUBBA

'Numero Eins, as they say in Germany' - PETER JONES

'He had an eternity to play that ball, but he took too long over it.' - MARTIN TYLER

'Billy Bingham will have to put his thinking boots on' - Commentator

'Butcher goes forward as Ipswich throw their last trump card into the fire' - BRYON BUTLER

'He had two stabs at the cherry' - ALAN GREEN

'Ibrox is filling up slowly, but rapidly' - JAMES SANDERSON

'He put it just where he meant it and it passed the Luxembourg goalpost by 18 inches' - BRYON BUTLER

'It's a game of two teams.' - PETER BRACKLEY

'Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it' - JOHN HELM

'Wilkins sends an inch perfect pass to no one in particular' - BRYON BUTLER

'He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum' - BARRY DAVIES

'Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season' - ALAN PARRY

'Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathematical tragedy' - TONY GUBBA

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I've got a load from Kevin Keegan, who must be the master of the stupid football comments. But I'll post them later perhaps.
 

playmate

Reserve Team
Bryan Robson , the Man Utd legend misses the point a little about Roy Keane's elbow on Jason McAteer:
"Jason wouldn't have much of a career as a boxer, going down from a blow like that.":clapwap:

Empoli president Fabrizio Corsi : "In England the glorious Manchester earns three times more than Sunderland, a club in the suburbs of Liverpool":eek:

Burnleys manager Stan Ternet:" The players just aren't doing it. A blind man on a galloping horse can see that"
:D
Paolo Di Canio's real reason to stay with the Hammers:
"The man who looked after my piranhas told me 'if you leave West Ham i'll kill your fish.'
I have a few piranha fish but only one of them have a name - a big fat one whom my nine year old daughter called Paolo Di Canio"

Michael Owen :"I don't want to be modelling G-strings - it's not good for my image."


:crazyboy:
George Best appers to have forgotten his drink problem:
" Boozing players are dragging our game to the gutter.":)

An England fan(thug) : "I am not racist ... I just hate Turks."
 

playmate

Reserve Team
Kevin Keegan !!
'Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.'

'That would have been a goal if it wasn't saved.'

'I came to Nantes two years ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.'

'A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.'


'I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.'

'It could be far worse for me if it was easy for me.'

'Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.'

'Young Gareth Barry - he's young'

'Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries...'

'In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.'

'The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.'

'England have the best fans in the world and Scotland's fans are second-to-none'


'Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.'

'They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.'

'You don't get two chances at this level, or at any other level for that matter.'

'You're not just getting international football, you're getting world football'


'I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again'

'He'll also be very dangerous from set-pieces. That means he'll be a threat from free-kicks and corners in the final third of the field.'


'You need 88 points for the title and we’ve got 61 at present with 16 games to go, but if you set targets you limit yourself'

'We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half'

'He’s got a heart as big as his size, which isn’t big, but his heart’s bigger than that'

'Well, if that's true then it would be a big suprise, but then nothing surprises me in football these days.'

'You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.'

'Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away'

'Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger'

'Nicolas Anelka left Arsenal for £23million and they built a training ground on him'

'As far as I'm concerned, Danny Tiatto doesn't exist'

just read the above.....:read:


:rockman:
 

playmate

Reserve Team
More from Keegan:'It's like a toaster, the ref's shirt pocket. Every time there's a tackle, up pops a yellow card.'

'The ref was vertically 15 yards away.'

'There are two schools of thought on the way the rest of this half is going to develop; everybody's got their own opinion...'

'Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.'

'This could be a repeat of the final.'

'The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it.'

'I don't think there's anyone bigger or smaller than Maradona.'

'England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.'

'They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different'

'Despite his white boots, he has real pace...'

'You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw...'

'He can't speak Turkey, but you can tell he's delighted.'

'There'll be no siestas in Madrid tonight.'

'...using his strength. And that is his strength, his strength.'

'One of his strengths is not heading' (of course, one of Keggy's strengths is not talking)

'Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice.'

'I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.'

'The tide is very much in our court now.'
 
" The operation went well, but the patient died" - Ebbe Skovdahl, after his defensive tactics once again failed against Celtic.

" Statistics are like mini skirts, they are good to look at but hide whats important " - Ebbe Skovdahl, after stats proved our keeper Peter Kjaer was the best in the SPL

:|
 

flamehawk

Starting XI
There was a whole load of them in the last 442 magazine.

"Atleast we're going to Hong Kong next summer -- you're not" Jason McAteer taunts Hasselbaink after Ireland beat Holland to take a place in the World Cup finals (Note Hong Kong Is not in Japan nor Korea)


"We dominated for 75% of the game, but we have to make sure we do taht for the other 15" Dave Jones, Wolves Manager
hmm.. 75 +15 = 90


"I sometimes wish I'd been shot when I was England Manager. But it never came to that (long pause) Nor should it" Graham Taylor
 

SBF

Starting XI
There is no secret to be honest, you can only do your best - Adrian Mutu

strong words from the romanian international ;)
 
D

Dan the monkey

Guest
"Our pitch err.. its like a bitch"-Claudio Ranieri (I think thats how its spelt) -Note- He meant to say beach instead of bitch
 

Bobby

The Legend
"Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored" - Terry Venables

"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had." - David Beckham

hope nobody has posted those
 

ryan_goal

Senior Squad
Originally posted by Shifty the monkey
"Our pitch err.. its like a bitch"-Claudio Ranieri (I think thats how its spelt) -Note- He meant to say beach instead of bitch

italian accent?:rolleyes:
 


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