Who Said What?

Here are 30 football manager quotes, some classic, some very famous, some just famous, and a few slightly more obscure, but all worth reading. Can you put the face to the quote.

Here´s the list of those who uttered the following famous words, but just who said what?

( Joe Kinnear, Kevin Keegan, Glenn Hoddle, Matt Busby, Don Revie, Brian Clough, Ron Atkinson, Harry Redknapp, Bob Paisley, Bertie Vogts, Graham Taylor, Chris Turner, Bobby Robson, David O´Leary, Arsene Wenger, Gianluca Vialli, Bill Shankly, Howard Wilkinson, Ruud Gullit, Gerry Francis, Ian Holloway)


1. ´Rome wasn´t built in a day, but I wasn´t on that particular job´

2. ´If I walked on water, my accusers would say it´s because I can´t swim´

3. ´I couldn´t be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season´

4. ´Mind you, I´ve been here during the bad times too - one year we came second´

5. (said of Eddie Gray) ´When he plays on snow, he doesn´t leave any footprints´

6. ´Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I´m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that´

7. ´I was just saying to your colleague, the referee has just got me the sack, thank him ever so much for that won´t you?´

8. ´Of course I didn´t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway it was Rochdale reserves´

9. I´ve told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones´

10. (talking on Sir Alex Ferguson) ´You can tell him now, we´re still fighting for this title, and I´ll tell you honestly, I will love it if we beat them, love it´

11. ´At a football club there´s a holy trinity, the players, the manager, and the supporters. Directors don´t come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques´

12. ´I tried to watch the Tottenham game on the television in my hotel room yesterday, but I fell asleep´

13. It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was "Whenever possible, give the ball to George Best" ´

14. ´If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He´d have put grass up there´

15. (on Rene Higuita) ´We´ve got absolutely no interest in him. We´ve got a goalkeeper with a better trick - he stops the ball with his hands´

16. (on Ian Dowie) ´Judging by the shape of his face, he must have headed a lot of balls´

17. ´The only way to stop Thierry Henry? with a gun!´

18. ´Football hooligans? Well there are 92 club chairmen for a start´

19. (said of Ruud Gullit) ´It was like watching an 18-year old, playing in a game for 12-year olds´

20. ´I´m out at the moment, but should you be the chairman of Barcelona, AC Milan, or Real Madrid, I´ll get straight back to you. The rest can wait´

21. ´There´s only two types of manager. Those who´ve been sacked and those who will be sacked in the future´

22. ´The only relaxed boss is Big Ron. He had me drinking pink champagne - before the match´

23. (on signing Rob Lee) ´I told him Newcastle was nearer to London than Middlesborough, and he believed me´

24. (on Gordon Strachan) ´There´s nobody fitter at his age - except maybe Raquel Welch´

25. ´What I said to them at half-time would be unprintable on the radio´

26. ´Home advantage, gives you an advantage´

27. ´We must have had 99 per cent of the game. It was the other 3 per cent that cost us the match´

28. ´We didn´t underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought´

29´. ´I was a young lad when I was growing up´

and finally the most ´putting of foot in it´ of them all

30. ´Very few of us have any idea of what life is like living in a golfdfish bowl, except of course, for those of us who are goldfish´

rbf

 

3 may be Ian Hollaway? He seems the sort of manager who would say something dirty like that!

Also, great little game RBF!

 

3. is Ian Holloway

 

6. Shankley

 

Shankly it is, probably the most quoted football quote of all time

 

7 sounds like Colin

 

Correct on all counts Maestro

 

Nope!

 

It is

 

There are several here with more than one quote actually, they were just too good to leave out.

I think 9. is my personal favourite, for dry humour, and for total inaneness it has to be 25. or 30.

 

10 Keegan , 13 Busby , 2 and 8 nope, 7 Taylor

 

I´m a bit surprised that 4, 11 and 14 haven´t yet been guessed, I thought they were fairly famous.

 

In fact you chose the two of the three that weren´t which means that...............?

 

Anyway it´s getting towards midnight here, and I need my beauty sleep, so I´ll say goodnight and be back in the morning to see how you´ve done.