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“All I know most surely about morality and obligation I owe to football”,

Albert Camus

Pulled off at halftime

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Stuart Reeves and Adrian Besley, London, Carlton, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78739-147-5

The book consists of 250 pages of one liners attributed to well-known people in professional football. Some are clever. Some are laugh out loud hilarious. Some unmemorable. It is a book to bring a smile to your face on a boring day.

The title comes from a famous “double-entendre” exchanged between England manager, Alf Ramsey and player Rodney Marsh.

Here are a few of my favourites to give you a flavour:

I couldn’t settle in Italy. It was like living in a foreign country. Ian Rush

It took a lot of bottle for Tony Adams to own up [to his alcoholism]. Ian Wright

The beauty of cup football is Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath. Terry Butcher

If we start counting their chickens before they hatch, they won’t lay any eggs in the basket. Bobby Robson

Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like West Ham have 11 dicks on the field. Metro radio commentary

Hearts are now playing with a five man back four. Alan McInally

If it Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England. John Barnes

Guaranteed to give you a chuckle, if not a laugh out loud.



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