Paul Merson Quotes

Paul Lambert has learned Fabian Delph the game.

Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep

In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

Confidence is a horrible thing

I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long

Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

There's only one person gets you sacked and that's the fans

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets

The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We [Arsenal] played against Milan in the European Supercup [in 1995]. Maldini marked me and I didn't even get a kick of the ball all game. He was just unbelievable.

Goals dictate how matches go.

It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air

As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'

That shot moved like... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut

If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face