A previous blog showcased the wit of embattled German football manager Berti Vogts. But the inarguable kings of the quote were Brian Clough and, frankly, Mr Shankly.
Three from Clough:
“I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”
“When I go, God’s going to have to give up his favourite chair.”
“Rome wasn’t built in a day. But I wasn’t on that particular job.”
And here’s an opportunity to relive the night ‘the shit hit the fan’. Fast-forward to 3m 23s to see it dawn on a man that his afternoon really isn’t turning out to be as fun as he’d expected.
Three from Bill Shankly:
“In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside: Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”
“If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I’d pull the curtains.”
And of course, “Football is not a matter of life and death … it’s much more important than that.”
This week’s tune is the collaboration between Colourbox (of the great non-World Cup theme ‘Colourbox’s World Cup Theme’) and (H)AR(ry) Kane.