Quotes on Football Fan

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.