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Post by QPR Report on Feb 16, 2009 13:27:29 GMT
Feel free to add Today: Jean Paul Sartre - "In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team"
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Post by QPR Report on Feb 16, 2009 13:29:11 GMT
And
Albert Camus: "“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football”
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Post by londonranger on Feb 16, 2009 15:16:45 GMT
Montague Python, recent Philosophy of football. Compared the ancient Greek philosophers v the more modern. Believe that in the game Confucius refereed and a Nobby Plato on one team and Archimedes thinking too much to score goals Which could be QPR philosophy of strikers thinking too much.?
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Post by cogster on Feb 16, 2009 18:10:46 GMT
"I hear Glenn Hoddle has found God, that must have been one hell of a pass"
- Jasper Carrott
Interviewer:
'Would it be fair to describe you as a volatile player?'
David Beckham:
'Well, I can play in the centre on the right and occasionally on the left side.' (Man U)
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Post by londonranger on Feb 16, 2009 19:49:46 GMT
Also for LA and Milan at the same time, which would make him a winged god? eros?? which would match other more primaeval aspects of his loverboy personna.
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Post by QPR Report on Feb 17, 2009 8:24:32 GMT
"We have still to produce our best football. It will come against a team who come to play football and not to act as animals." - Alf Ramsey [The man who played Nobby Styles!]
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Post by QPR Report on Feb 17, 2009 8:27:05 GMT
"The relationship we have with Chelsea is a thriving one...They conduct themselves particularly well with us and have shown us tremendous respect." - QPR Manager, John Gregory
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 13:29:18 GMT
Ray Wilkins on getting Ned Zelic. He is thrilled. He is as versatile as an egg. rest of quote is scrambled.
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 13:33:22 GMT
David James I am only as good as my back four in front of me. Notable back four we are only as good as the goalkeeper behind us.
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Post by QPR Report on Feb 17, 2009 13:53:34 GMT
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 14:37:55 GMT
Jimmy McGregor (1960) He is football crazy and football mad And the football it has robbed him of the wee bit sense he had. it would take a dozen skivvies his clothes to wash and scrub Since our Jock became a member of that terrible football club.
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 14:42:11 GMT
Matt Busby.....George Best was told by Matt not to bother to turn up for his team talks to Man.U. ... It was a very simple talk: Whenever possible give the ball to George.
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 14:44:43 GMT
Katherine whitehorn observations. "I used to think that the only use for football was to give small boys something else to kick beside me."
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 14:47:15 GMT
Bill Shankly: Some people think that football is a matter of life or death. I can assure them that it is a lot more serous than that.
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 14:49:21 GMT
Stan Bowles When Don Revie didnt pick him for the England team in 1976. "Maybe he thinks the gypsies have put a curse on me. He,s very superstitious you know."
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 14:56:50 GMT
not so nice: Ned sherrin. Frequently sung at Chelsea. If I had the wings of a sparrow If I had the ar..se of a crow, I,d fly over Tottenham tomorrow and And s.h...i..t on the bastards below.
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Post by londonranger on Feb 17, 2009 14:59:53 GMT
John Mortimer. Football as I have discovered fosters international hostility. and leads the audience to assault and do grievous bodily harm (probably from boredom) while watching it.
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