1 "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." Bill Shankly



2 "If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains." Bill Shankly



3 "The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game." Bill Shankly



4 "A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams in Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves." Bill Shankly



5 "If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later." Bob Paisley



6 "Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool." Bill Shankly



7 "Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine." Roy Evans



8 "Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second." Bob Paisley



9 "I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know?" Robbie Fowler



10 "Sometimes I feel I'm hardly wanted in this Liverpool team. If I get two or three saves to make, I've had a busy day." Ray Clemence



11 "Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting." Robbie Fowler



12 "Liverpool are magic, Everton are tragic." Emlyn Hughes



13 "I'd kick my own brother if necessary... it's what being a professional footballer is all about." Steve McMahon



14 "It was like playing in a foreign country." Ian Rush on his time with Juventus in Italy



15 "I said to Kevin (Keegan), 'I'll go near post' and he replied, 'No, just go for the ball.'" Tommy Smith



16 "Anybody who plays for me should be a bad loser." Graeme Souness.



17 "It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain." Ian Rush



18 "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." Bill Shankly



19 "They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different." Kevin Keegan



20 "Bruce Grobbelaar will play on until he is 40 - and at the top level." Bruce Grobbelaar



21 "He's better than Brian Lara because he's 600 not out. What a guy." Roy Evans on Ian Rush's 600th appearance for Liverpool



22 "Should the aggregate score be level after 90 minutes, extra time will be played." Fulham's matchday programme for the second leg of the Littlewoods Cup tie in 1986-87. Liverpool were 10-0 up from the first leg



23 "There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing." Gerard Houllier



24 "Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan." Phil Thompson responding to criticism from Frank de Boer of Barcelona who said Liverpool were boring



25 "Son, you'll do well here as long as you remember two things. Don't over-eat and don't lose your accent." Bill Shankly to Ian St John



26 "If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing." Bill Shankly



27 "Don't worry Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team!" Bill Shankly to Alan Ball after he signed for Everton



28 "Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.” Phil Thompson



29 "As Arnold Schwarzenegger said, 'I'll be back." Gerard Houllier



30 "There is no way the second half can be as entertaining as the first." Alan Hansen during the UEFA Cup Final v Alaves with Liverpool leading 3-1 at half time



31 "We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football." Gerard Houllier



32 "It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against." Bill Shankly about the 'This is Anfield' plaque



33 "Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place son." Bill Shankly to Kevin Keegan



34 "It broke my heart to leave Liverpool." Kenny Dalglish



35 "Ay, here we are with problems at the top of the league." Bill Shankly suggesting to a journalist that Liverpool were in difficulties



36 "Where are you from?" "I'm a Liverpool fan from London." "Well laddie, what's it like to be in heaven?" Bill Shankly to a Liverpool fan



37 "Yes Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them." Bill Shankly to a reporter



38 "With him in defence, we could play Arthur Askey in goal." Bill Shankly after signing Ron Yeats



39 "Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent." Kevin Keegan



40 "At Liverpool we never accept second best." Kenny Dalglish



41 "Bill was so strong it was unbelievable. You couldn't shake him off the ball. It didn't matter where he was playing, though I suppose his best position was outside-left. He could go round you, or past you, or even straight through you sometimes!" Bob Paisley on Billy Liddell



42 "We will beat them one day, I can promise you that!" Gerard Houllier on Manchester United



43 "If anybody thinks either myself or my team are afraid of Liverpool, they can think again. I believe I've got a team that can go out and do the business against them." Coventry manager John Sillett before a match with Liverpool in 1987. Liverpool won 4-1 with Sillett declaring them champions elect in August.



44 "For me Liverpool can have Everton's title right now! Everton are good but Liverpool are better. They are the best in England – the side we can all learn from." Coventry boss John Sillett on Liverpool's title chances after Kenny Dalglish's new look team's second match of the season. Sillett was to be proved right as the 1987-88 Reds side of course went on to win the league



45 "You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time." Gerard Houllier



46. Barnes did what we expected him to do. He made a goal, scored one, and entertained. You remember that." Kenny Dalglish after John Barnes Anfield debut for Liverpool in a 2-0 win over Oxford in 1987



46 "He couldn't play anyway. I only wanted him for the reserve team!" Bill Shankly upon hearing Celtic's Lou Macari had snubbed Liverpool in favour of a move to Manchester United."



47 "Laddie, I never drop players, I only make changes." Bill Shankly to a journalist who criticised his team selection



48 "I don't believe everything Bill tells me about his players. Had they been that good, they'd not only have won the European Cup but the Ryder Cup, the Boat Race and even the Grand National!" Celtic manager Jock Stein on Bill Shankly



49 "We’ve got a lot of Cockneys in the team, but really, it doesn’t matter where they’re from – we’re all playing for Liverpool.” Robbie Fowler



50 "It's great grass at Anfield, professional grass!" Bill Shankly comparing the Anfield pitch to other grounds



51 "I owe Bob more than I owe anybody else in the game. There will never be another like him." Kenny Dalglish on Bob Paisley



52 "I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!" Alan Hansen.



53 "Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground and look at it now!" Ian Callaghan



54 "If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands." Tommy Smith



55 "I was Bob's first signing. He changed my life, as he did so many others. He gave us great memories and you can't put a price on that. He made me an adopted scouser." Phil Neal



56 "Bob's knowledge of players and the game in general is unsurpassed. Football has known no equal in management or prize-winning, but his modesty and dignity were overwhelming as he led this club from one triumph to another. His name will always be synonymous with Liverpool." Liverpool chairman David Moores on Bob Paisley



57 "Hold on a minute, John Wayne hasn't arrived yet." Bill Shankly to the awaiting TV crews and journalists for the press conference to announce he was retiring from football



58 "Liverpool had such a marvellous group of players. It was no surprise the trophies kept coming." Kenny Dalglish



59 "I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me." Kenny Dalglish



60 "If Liverpool had waited until the summer, and then asked me to go back as manager, I would have gone back." Kenny Dalglish, having had time to reflect on standing down as Liverpool manager in 199



61 "He was the greatest person I know." Ron Yeats on Bill Shankly



62 "I always carry a picture of him, he comes into my conversation a lot; I learned a lot from him and owe the man a great deal." Kevin Keegan on Shankly



63 "The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!" Bill Shankly



64 On awaiting Everton's arrival for a derby game at Anfield, Bill Shankly gave a box of toilet rolls to the doorman and said: "Give them these when they arrive – they'll need them!"



65 "If Shankly had been paid overtime, he'd have been a millionaire." Tommy Docherty on Bill Shankly



66 "He's better than Platini, certainly better than Rumminegge and Maradona. For me he is the greatest footballer in the world." Graeme Souness on Kenny Dalglish



67 "I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on." Gerard Houllier



68 "Our job is to make the fans happy. When we win, 45,000 people go home happy. When we lose, it not only affects them, it affects their cats." Gerard Houllier



69 "We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday." Gerard Houllier.



70 'The only pleasure I take is that the fans are happy with the team. But I don’t believe in anything other than my team." Gerard Houllier.



71 "I notice a former captain of ours said recently that this squad is so good that we don’t need a manager. I took this as a great compliment. He must have changed his mind since leaving as he said at the time that Phil Thompson and I would drag the club down. On that point I suppose he was right - we dragged the club down to Cardiff three times in the last 10 months." Gerard Houllier referring to comments made by Paul Ince



72 “We scored 127 goals - the third highest total in the club's history. Although, if you believe everything you read in the papers, 126 probably came from a breakaway from the edge of our penalty area. The other one was probably an own goal.” Gerard Houllier



73 "Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player." Gerard Houllier



74 "These players are my true heroes." Gerard Houllier



75 "Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn." Gerard Houllier



76 "When I see the Bill Shankly statue, I look at the sentiment on the base. It says: 'He made the people happy’. Well now the modern Liverpool is making the fans and the city happy. And that makes me so proud." Gerard Houllier



77 "To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match." Gerard Houllier



78 "I want to keep an English heart to the team. I believe in that. Michael Owen is that. Never think Michael is afraid of anything." Gerard Houllier



79 "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". Bill Shankly on boardroom meetings



80 "I'm just one of the people who stands on the kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It's a kind of marriage of people who like each other." Bill Shankly on the fans



81 "If he isn't named Footballer of the Year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to the Kremlin" Bill Shankly on Tommy Smith



82 "It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt." Bill Shankly on the leaving of Liverpool



84 "The only thing I fear is missing an open goal in front of the Kop. I would die if that were to happen. When they start singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' my eyes start to water. There have been times when I've actually been crying while I've been playing". Kevin Keegan



85 The goal looked as big as the Mersey Tunnel." Ian St John after his winning goal in the 1965 FA Cup Final against Leeds.



86 "If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be." Bill Shankly on the off-side rule



87 "Take that bandage off. And what do you mean about YOUR knee? It's Liverpool's knee!" Bill Shankly to Tommy Smith, who had a bandage on his injured knee



88 “Ladies and Gentlemen, yesterday at Wembley we might have lost the Cup but you the Liverpool people have won everything. You have won the admiration of the policemen in London and you have won the admiration of the public in London." Bill Shankly after losing the FA Cup in 1971 to Arsenal



89 "Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength." Bill Shankly



90 "It is our fifth trophy in just a matter of months and that shows what can be achieved when you have a united team who have great trust in each other." Gerard Houllier after Liverpool won the Super Cup in Monaco



91 "This was a special atmosphere only Anfield can produce. This was St Etienne part two and the fans cheered every tackle and it's one of the greatest nights in this football club's history." Phil Thompson after Liverpool's 2-0 victory over Roma in the Champions League 2002



92 "I will never forget today and I want to thank all the fans who gave me such a great ovation. They were immense. I thought I would get a decent reception but that surpassed all my wildest dreams. That sort of ovation is normally reserved for players who have won European Cups for a club. It was a brilliant day and it was nice to hear the Kop's humour at its best again when they were telling me to go back to Coventry." Gary McAllister after his last game for Liverpool at Anfield



93 "Playing Roma in Rome in the European Cup final and scoring a penalty in the shoot out to help us win it. That was my very last kick for Liverpool and it doesn't really get any better than that." Graeme Souness



94 "We are the real people's club." Sammy Lee



95 "He has not changed his religion." Gerard Houllier to a reporter when asked if Nick Barmby would become a recluse following his move from Everton to Liverpool



96 "I used to hate Ian Rush when I was young, because I was a devout Evertonian in those days, and he seemed to score every time Liverpool played against us. It's strange to think he used to support Everton too when he was a kid. He was brilliant to me at Anfield always giving me good advice." Robbie Fowler



97 "I was once offered Eric Cantona at Liverpool." Graeme Souness admitting he turned down the chance to sign the Frenchman during his reign as Liverpool manager



98 "You may have found me mean and thirsty in my search for trophies, but the bad news is the man who is taking my place is hungrier than me. Fagan's the name and I don't think he'll need any help from the Artful Dodger!" Bob Paisley on Joe Fagan



99 "If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP!" Bill Shankly



100 "I just hoped that after the trials and tribulations of my early years in management, someone up high would smile on me and guide my hand. My plea was answered when we got Kenny Dalglish. What a player, what a great professional!" Bob Paisley

some funny stuff there like



any more of your own personal favourites?

Damn, I just posted this in the best manager thread.



GORDON STRACHAN



-- on Wayne Rooney

"Its an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson."



-- on being in 4th place

"I'm going home now to get myself a Coca-Cola and a packet of crisps and I'll sit in front of the television and look at the table on Teletext all night."



Reporter: "Gordon, Do you think James Beattie deserves to be in the England squad?"

Strachan: "I dont care, I'm Scottish."



Reporter: "Gordon, can we have a quick word please?"

Strachan: "Velocity" [walks off]



Reporter: "Welcome to Southampton Football Club. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?"

Strachan: "No. I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, 'No, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless.'"



Reporter: "Are you getting where you want to be with this team?"

Strachan: "We're not doing bad. What do you expect us to be like? We were eighth in the league last year, in the cup final and we got into Europe. I don't know where you expect me to get to. Do you expect us to win the Champions League?"



Reporter: "Gordon, you must be delighted with that result?"

Strachan: "You're spot on! You can read me like a book."



Reporter: "Gordon, Austin Delgado?"

Strachan: "I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today. That can be my priority rather than Agustin Delgado."



Reporter: "This might sound like a daft question, but you'll be happy to get your first win under your belt, won't you?"

Strachan: "You're right. It is a daft question. I'm not even going to bother answering that one. It is a daft question, you're spot on there."



Reporter: "Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?"

Strachan: "No, I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump off a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah."



Reporter: "There's no negative vibes or negative feelings here?"

Strachan: "Apart from yourself, we're all quite positive round here. I'm going to whack you over the head with a big stick. Down negative man, down."



Reporter: "You don't take losing lightly, do you Gordon?"

Strachan: "I don't take stupid comments lightly either."



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."

LukeMayte wrote:

19 "They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different." Kevin Keegan



39 "Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent." Kevin Keegan



62 "I always carry a picture of him, he comes into my conversation a lot; I learned a lot from him and owe the man a great deal." Kevin Keegan on Shankly

KEVIN KEEGAN



"It's like a toaster, the ref's shirt pocket. Every time there's a tackle, up pops a yellow card."



"The ref was vertically 15 yards away."



"There are two schools of thought on the way the rest of this half is going to develop; everybody's got their own opinion..."



"This could be a repeat of the final."



"The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it."



"I don't think there's anyone bigger or smaller than Maradona."



"England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world."



"You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw..."



"He can't speak Turkey, but you can tell he's delighted."



"There'll be no siestas in Madrid tonight."



"...using his strength. And that is his strength, his strength."



"One of his strengths is not heading."



"Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice."



"I'm not disappointed - just disappointed."



"The tide is very much in our court now."



"Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose."



"That would have been a goal if it wasn't saved."



"I came to Nantes two years ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different."



"A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off."



"The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game."



"The substitute is about to come on - he's a player who was left out of the starting line-up today."



"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."



"I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is. But the onus is on us to perform and we must control the bandwagon."



"In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg."



"England have the best fans in the world and Scotland's fans are second-to-none."



"It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney."



"I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time."



"It could be far worse for me if it was easy for me."



"Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial."



"Young Gareth Barry - he's young."



"Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America."



"They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that."



"You're not just getting international football, you're getting world football."



"Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa."



"I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection."



"There's a slight doubt about only one player, and that's Tony Adams, who definitely won't be playing tomorrow."



"I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really."



"We managed to wrong a few rights."



"We are three games without defeat is another way of looking at it. But if we are honest we have taken two points from nine."



"He'll also be very dangerous from set-pieces. That means he'll be a threat from free-kicks and corners in the final third of the field."



"Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose."



"I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again."



"You need 88 points for the title and we’ve got 61 at present with 16 games to go, but if you set targets you limit yourself."



"We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half."



"Well, if that's true then it would be a big suprise, but then nothing surprises me in football these days."



"You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison."



"Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away."



"Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger."



"One team with destiny already decided..."



"Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is..."

hahahaha



some legendary ones from the strach there.

JOHN MOTSON



"The World Cup is a truly international event."



"Whether that was a penalty or not, the referee thought otherwise."



"And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway."



"The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour."



"The unexpected is always likely to happen..."



"Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour!"



"That's an old Ipswich move - O'Callaghan crossing for Mariner to drive over the bar."



"Bruce has got the taste of Wembley in his nostrils."



"...so different from the scenes in 1872, at the cup final none of us can remember."



"For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the yellow strip."



"I was about to say before something far more interesting interrupted..."



"There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard."



"It looks like a one-man show here though there are two men involved."



"And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction."



"Paul Gascoigne has recently become a father and been booked for over-celebrating."



"It's Arsenal 0, Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton to win."



"The match was settled either side of half-time."



"The atmosphere here is literally electric..."



"And what a time to score! 22 minutes gone..."



"Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running around the pitch playing with themselves."



"It's a football stadium in the truest sense of the word."



"England could have been 1-0 down on two occasions now."



"I know that Gareth Barry has been told by Howard Wilkinson to take a long hard look at these with his left foot."



"I've lost count of how many chances Helsingborg have had. It's at least five."



"The goals made such a difference to the way this game went."



"That shot might not have been as good as it might have been..."



"The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup."



"Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was."



"Chelsea haven't got any out and out strikers on the bench unless you count Zenden who's more of a winger."



"He's not quite at 110% fitness."



"The referee is wearing the same yellow-coloured top as the Slovakian goalkeeper. I'd have thought the UEFA official would have spotted that - but perhaps he's been deafened by the noise of this crowd."

here we go: these arent on fav order tho



1."The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed" Eric Cantona (corny man)



2."When I see this I want to smash Materazzi's face. Sometimes you have players who are clever and say something to you and you are very angry and want to kill that player." - William Gallas



3. Per Mertesacker sometimes looks like an uncoordinated spider, with his long legs and nervy distribution." David Pleat on the german defender.



4.Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ~Anthony Burgess



5. The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ~Phil Woosnam, 1974



6.Interviewer: 'Would it be fair to describe you as a volatile player?'

David Beckham: 'Well, I can play in the centre, on the right and occasionally on the left side.' (i knew he was a dumb blonde)



7. 'I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.' - Mark Draper



8.It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad" Zinedine Zidane



9. I think I am the special one - Jose Mourihno.



thats about it i guess, havent really gone through too may of them tho..

'I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.' - Stuart Pearce



'My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.' - David Beckham



'I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George Ndah had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.' - Ade Akinbiyi



'I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.' - Mark Draper



'I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.' - Alan Shearer



'If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.' - Neville Southall



'I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.' - Mark Viduka



'Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.' - David Beckham



'I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.' - David Beckham



'I was a young lad when I was growing up.' - David O'Leary



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

- Graham Taylor



'The first 90 minutes are the most important.' - Bobby Robson



'We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other three per cent that cost us the match.' - Ruud Gullit

LukeMayte wrote:

16 "Anybody who plays for me should be a bad loser." Graeme Souness.

Admits it!! And freddie shephard thought this man was the best on the market...??

I'd waited long enough. I fucking hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you cunt. And don't ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries.

Roy Keane





Even in the dressing room afterwards, I had no remorse. My attitude was, fuck him. What goes around comes around. He got his just rewards. He fucked me over and my attitude is an eye for an eye.

Roy Keane





AVE IT!!!

1 "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." Bill Shankly



couldn't aggree more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





and any of archie mcphersons live commentarys!!!!!!(c'mon the weetabix)

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh





Anthony Lynch, the Cork corner-back, will be the last person to let you down - his people are undertakers.



Danny "The Yank" Culloty. He came down from the mountains and hasn't he done well.



Teddy McCarthy to Mick McCarthy, no relation, Mick McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation



Teddy looks at the ball, the ball looks at Teddy...



"Pat Fox has it on his hurl and is motoring well now ... but here comes Joe Rabbitte hot on his tail ...... I've seen it all now, a Rabbitte chasing a Fox around Croke Park!"



Pat Fox out to the forty and grabs the sliothar. I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal... the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox, to the 21, fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide... and the dog lost as well.



I saw a few Sligo people at Mass in Gardiner Street this morning and the omens seem to be good for them. The priest was wearing the same colours as the Sligo jersey! 40 yards out on the Hogan Stand side of the field, Ciarán Whelan goes on a rampage... it's a goal. So much for religion.



The stopwatch has stopped. It's up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God.



Seán Óg Ó hAilpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.



Colin Corkery on the 45 lets go with the right boot. Its over the bar. This man shouldn't be playing football. He's made an almost Lazarus-like recovery from a heart condition. Lazarus was a great man but he couldn't kick points like Colin Corkery.



He grabs the sliothar, he's on the 50... he's on the 40... he's on the 30... he's on the ground



He kicks the ball lán san aer [Irish for 'high in the air'] , could've been a goal, could've been a point... it went wide.



I see John O'Donnell dispensing water on the sideline. Tipperary, sponsored by a water company. Cork, sponsored by a tae [tea] company. I wonder will they meet later for afternoon tae.





...and Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, I'll tell ye a little story. I was in Times Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a newsstand and I said, "I suppose ye wouldn't have the Kerryman would ye?" To which, the Egyptian behind the counter turned to me and he said, "Do you want the North Kerry edition or the South Kerry edition?" He had both...so I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet...



1-5 to 0-8.. well from Lapland to the Antarctic, that's level scores in any man's language



Stephen Byrne with the puck out for Offaly. Stephen, one of 12. All but one are here to-day, the one that's missing is Mary, she's at home minding the house... and the ball is dropping i lár na bpáirce... [in centrefield]

"I will always hate Real Madrid. I would rather the ground opened up and took me under than accept a job with them. In fact, I really do not like speaking about them because when I do it makes me want to vomit."

-- Hristo Stoitchkov