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The Book of Football Quotations
The Book of Football Quotations
Oct 23, 2024 1:35 AM

Author:Phil Shaw

The Book of Football Quotations

The greatest football quotations collection ever, now in its ninth edition.

This compilation includes quotes from everyone – Shakespeare to Suarez, Camus to Cantona, Busby to Beckham – who has made an apt, pithy or comical comment about football. And not just footballers and managers either – fans, pundits, groundsmen, directors and wives all get to have their say too. Every subject is covered, from tactical debates to changing lifestyles, to produce a sometimes hilarious and always thought-provoking commentary on the game.

‘My players are always the best players in the world, even if they aren’t’ - José Mourinho

‘He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words’ - David Beckham

‘Sometimes when you aim for the stars you hit the moon’ - Ian Holloway

Reviews

Truly a must... it can make you laugh or cry

—— Sunday Telegraph

It should be on the shelf of everyone who loves football

—— The Times

Shaw has drawn together a fine catalogue of comical observations for a book to which enthusiasts will return regularly for comical stimulation

—— Scotland on Sunday

richly enjoyable

—— Richard Williams , Guardian

Boulting is a delightful narrator, amusingly preoccupied by his own middle-class roots

—— Financial Times

An amusing and personal exploration of the austere, nutty soul of British cycling

—— Nudge

Reading this book, you are treated to a number of laugh-out-load anecdotes, you get to meet the most eccentric characters and you will read some surprisingly moving tales…sure to enlighten and entertain

—— Joff Verby , London Cyclist

Boulting is a deliciously funny companion

—— Claire Allfree , Metro

Heartwarming and often downright hilarious

—— Susan Swarbrick , Sunday Herald

Bobby Moore will rightly be forever remembered as the champion of his era, the most serenely masterful footballer ever to have hailed from these shores; “The Man in Full”, not shying away from human fallacies, serves as a reminder that he was the same as every one of us

—— Jack Gaughan , Mail Online

Full marks to Matt Dickinson

—— Steven Howard , Sun

Dickinson makes Moore sound more human… One suspects this excellent biography comes close to describing the real Moore

—— UK Press Syndication

Excellent

—— Jon Wise, 5 stars , Weekend Sport

Outstanding

—— UK Press Syndication

Dickinson manages to bring balance to this incredibly well-researched book

—— 4 stars , FourFourTwo

Dickinson is tender to the memory of the Essex lad who, for a breathtaking instant, was glorious

—— Ain Finlayson and Kate Saunders , Saga Magazine

Matt's work is the most impressive West Ham book of the year, a genuine and sincere attempt to get to the root of the man. It is an excellent, thought-provoking book

—— Knees Up Mother Brown

A compelling and complete account

—— Sport

In The Man in Full, acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy, peeling away the layers of legend and looking at Moore’s life from all sides – in triumph, in failure, in full

—— Bert Wright , Nudge

Outstanding... this excellent biography comes very close to describing the real Bobby Moore

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