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“What I can't understand is why clubs who pay out millions in wages don't invest in the best physiotherapy available. Why risk bringing a player back too quickly, only for the problems to return? If you pay 80m for Cristiano Ronaldo, wouldn't you invest 15k in his physiotherapy?”
“You get footballers in adverts lying through their teeth to say that their boot is the best ever. And all the kids, including mine, believe them.”
“You can tell when somebody doesn't give a toss, and you can tell when they do.”
“There's many a pundit out there who will chuck out a cliche here, a cliche there and don't really analyse what's going on. I just thought 'I can't do that, it doesn't make any sense.'”
“Football should be a game for all, so why are football magazines in the 'men's lifestyle' section of the news stands?”
“Back in 1984 I worked my socks off cutting grass to save 34, an astronomical amount of money at the time, for a brand new pair of goalie gloves.”
“In the history of the Premier League some of the most notable managerial departures have been English.”
“Top football clubs are now using a model of statistical analysis similar to that used by Billy Beane in Major League Baseball to tell us how we won, how we lost, how to pick the side, or even how to buy players.”
“A racist will be a racist and football is a cross-section of the male population of society.”
“In the past we have had managers who have muddled communication. With Mr Capello you know exactly what you're dealing with down to the smallest detail. He is so obsessed with football and how he wants us to play the game that he picks up on the tiniest points.”
“With regards to the playing side of things, I don't look at myself as any different from the guy who gets changed next to me, and I'm not going to fly anyone's flag in order to join some 'gang,' which doesn't need to be joined.”
“Right now, there are millions of pairs of football boots that people have grown out of or replaced, and we need to make sure they don't end up in landfill.”
“I had been quite happy and content working in Asia. I've got a lot of friends out there and loved travelling.”
“If top players don't always have their injuries scanned, then a club will be even less likely to spend 400 on an MRI scan for a reserve-team player.”
“In the past, I have suggested footballers should have some kind of performance-related pay - which didn't go down too well with my peers.”
“The loyalty of football supporters is extraordinary and testament to the game's power.”
“You can't save from a brilliant penalty taker and Eric Cantona was the best. His technique was so good it was a joke. You would stand on the goalline waiting and waiting - his run-up was so slow. He didn't need to sprint and blast the ball: he had control.”
“Concede a penalty and it disrupts the way people play, all of a sudden the pressure is on and they're feeling down.”
“The role of goalkeeping coach is pretty labour-intensive. They have a huge amount of responsibility - most of them oversee the development of everyone from the first-team keeper to the youngest players at their club.”
“Women and football have come a long way since I was at school. In those days, as far as I was concerned, football was a boys' sport and that was it. I couldn't imagine women having anything to do with it.”