Strachan gives some fantastic quotes. My favourite is the following: Reporter: So, Gordon, in what areas do you think Middlesbrough were better than you today? Strachan: What areas? Mainly that big green one out there...
STrachan is the best around today IMO Reporter: You don't take losing lightly, do you Gordon? Strachan: I don't take stupid comments lightly either.
How about some classic quotes by Mr Burns aka Arsene Wenger. "As long as no-one scored, it was always going to be close." "I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants." [On losing the lead of the league in November 2004] "It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous." "We were considering him [Ruud van Nistelrooy] and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers." "Maybe people will be surprised that I have signed an Englishman but I looked at his quality and not his passport. Francis is a 'fox in the box'." "One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win." "At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory."
Pep Guardiola, on Jose Moronho's usual tiresome antics in press conferences: "He's the ****ing boss. He's the ****ing master and I can't compete with him at any instant."
"If in winning we only draw we would be fine." Jack Charlton "It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there." Jack Charlton "We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European." Jack Charlton "I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week." Jack Charlton Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies. Jack Charlton If Kevin Keegan fell into the Tyne, he'd come up with a salmon in his mouth. Jack Charlton I have a little black book with two players in it, and if I get a chance to do them I will. I will make them suffer before I pack this game in. If I can kick them four years over the touch line, I will. Jack Charlton
My favourite Jack Charlton quote: He is talking about Nobby Stiles. Reporter: What about Stiles great game? Charlton: Nobby? I've seen the ball go past him, I've seen a player go past him, but never both together.
"With the greatest respect to women, football is the most beautiful thing in the world." - Slaven Bilic
I'm late in on this but I genuinely love David Pleat! Personal favourites: 'The sight is in end for Arsenal now' 'and for sure, Italy can say, Au Revoir' 'There's Jermaine Defoe, probably checking the weather on his phone. He's a lovely boy' 'Terry Sheddingham' 'Pascal Shimbomba'
Shimbomba was great. Surely their must have been a point where someone at ITV said "look, it's pronounced Chimbonda, y'know, just like it's spelt. Now say it with me Chimmm-Bonnn-Daaa"
"He's only twenty now, but in five years he's got a pretty good chance of being twenty-five." "His future's really ahead of him." "We'll be getting some unseasonable weather for this time of year." "We understand the chances of getting hit by lightning are very small." (At the Africa Cup game between Ghana and Zambia): "If they don't get an equalizer they're going to lose."
