Friday, June 30, 2006

Considering Fifa World Cup matches this summer in Germany,I thought of writing some qoutes about this amazing game.
Throughout the ages the good and the great have offered their quotes and advice on what makes Football so special.
This page will allow you to agree or disagree with their opinions.

"It's not just a simple game. It's a weapon of the revolution" Che Guevara

"Football is a game for rough girls, not suitable for delicate boys"Oscar Wilde

"Life itself is but a game of football" Sir Walter Scott

"I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it." Nick Hornby

"Each succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method" Machiavelli

"Know your opponent and know yourself - make one hundred challenges without hazard" Sun Tzu

"The goal passes through a series of phases independent of the will of man" Karl Marx

"My idea of paradise is a straight line to Goals" Friedrich Nietzsche

"The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people" Eric Hobsbawm


"Football is a working class Ballet" Alf Garnett