A football match can create so many questions, opinions, and emotions so when a game finishes fans and pundits alike look towards the players and managers for insight, although time and time again they saddle the same old tosh to the media, talking but saying nothing. However, we all stay watching after the game even though we know we will learn nothing, so why do we do this? Well once in a blue moon we actually hear something brilliant…
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that." (Bill Shankly)
"In some ways, cramp is worse than a broken leg!" (Kevin Keegan)
"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhea." (Brian Clough)
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” (George Best)
"The Makelele situation is unbelievable. He is not a football player, he is a slave." (Jose Mourinho)
"I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona!" (Kevin Keegan)
"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there." (Brian Clough)
"There's a whole lot of teams in the bottom six." (Graeme Le Saux)
"If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again." (Terry Venables)
"He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time." (Glenn Hoddle)
"Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence." (Sir Bobby Charlton)
“I tell you, honestly, I will love it if we beat them – love it” (Kevin Keegan)
"I've told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones" (Chris Turner)
"I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area, for goalies is between their legs" (Andy Gray)
"We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right." (Brian Clough)
“Just fucking patch him up” (Sir Alex Ferguson, after booting a boot at Beckham)
"Roman Abramovich has parked his Russian tanks on our lawn and is firing £50 notes at us." (David Dein)
"Young players are a bit like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100 per cent sure that the melon is good. Sometimes you have beautiful melons but they don't taste very good and some other melons are a bit ugly and when you open them up, the taste is fantastic.” (Claudio Ranieri)
"I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league"- (Mark Viduka)