A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.