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There’s nothing stupid about football. And there’s nothing at all stupid about the Annual All Priests Five-a-Side Over-Seventy-Fives Indoor Football Challenge Match against Rugged Island. Father Ted s3e5: Escape From Victory, Dougal, Channel 4 1998
There was a time when the over-seventy-fives put their heart into it. ibid. Ted
A load of men kicking a bit of leather round a field. ibid. Mrs Doyle
I could have been a footballer. But I had a paper round. Alan Bleasdale, Boys from the Blackstuff: Yosser’s Story, BBC 1982
Ryan Giggs! RYAN GIGGS! RYAN GIGGS! You’re not secret any more. Football crowd chant May 2011 thereby breaking court super-injunction against revealing affair
Football is nothing without fans. Jock Stein, attributions inc Matt Busby
A year ago, a chap called Adrian Hayward asked Paddy Power for a price on Liverpool’s Xabi Alonso scoring a goal during the forthcoming season from inside his own half. He was offered 125-1 and his £200 was turned into £25,000 when Alonso duly scored from improbable range against Luton in the third round of the FA Cup.
‘I watch Liverpool a lot and had seen Alonso try it before,’ he later reported. ‘Also, I’d had a dream about it and just couldn’t get it out of my head.’ Independent online article 19th August 2006
7th December 1995: It was the end of an era. But before the murders, the torture, the beatings and the ecstasy, before all of that there was football. You see football is where the hatred and the spite first come from. Rise of the Foot Soldier 2007 ***** starring Ricci Harnett & Terry Stone & Craig Fairbrass & Roland Manookian & Billy Murray & Frank Harper & Neil Maskell & Dave Legeno & Kieran Bew & Jason Maza Coralie Rose& et al, director Julian Gilbey, Carlton Leach’s commentary
I was West Ham. For us football, fighting and fucking was our way of life. ibid.
Football was my mistress, and I played away every weekend. ibid.
We started calling ourselves the ICF, the Inter City Firm. ibid.
Getting beaten up by football hooligans is like getting VD – the pain goes on for ever; but that’s what makes it so exciting. The Football Factory 2004 starring Danny Dyer & Frank Harper & Neil Maskell & Roland Manookian & Tamer Hassan & Dudley Sutton & John Junkin & Jamie Foreman & Kara Tointon et al, director Nick Love, opening remarks
You’re fucking muggy little cunts. ibid. woman bypasser
I know what I’d rather do – Tottenham away. Love it. ibid. Tommy
The truth is – I just love to fight. ibid.
Brought up in a concrete jungle on glue and hate. ibid.
Millwall v Chelsea – old enemies that always end up in murders. ibid.
Next time you visit the boneyard it could be in a box. ibid. granddad
You really do have to ask yourself if it was all worth it? Course it fucking was. ibid.
Mate, Tottenham’s due north. Are you lost or just fucking stupid? Green Street Hooligans 2005 starring Elijah Wood & Charlie Hunnam & Claire Forlani & Leo Gregory & Claire Forlani & Marc Warren & Ross McCall & Rafe Spall & Kieran Bew & Geoff Bell & Terence Jay et al, director Lexi Alexander, opening scene on Underground platform
Every football team in Europe’s got a Firm. ibid. Pete
This is what it’s all about; it’s what we fucking live for. ibid.
You don’t feel alive unless you’re pushing yourself as far as you can go. ibid. Elijah
How fucking cool was he? We were almost ten-handed and he offered us all out. What a pot-house, eh? The Firm 2009 starring Calum MacNab & & Paul Anderson & Daniel Mays & Doug Allen & Joe Jackson & Richie Campbell & James Kelly & Tommy Nash & Eddie Webber et al, director Nick Love
We’ll see who’s got the best Firm. ibid.
With fear on your side you can get people to do anything. Top Dog 2014 starring Leo Gregory & Ricci Harnett & George Russo & Dannielle Brent & Lorraine Stanley & Johnny Palmiero & Susan Penhaligon & Vincent Regan et al, directors Martin Kemp & Dougie Brimson, opening comments
In this jungle those who decide to try and seize power had better watch themselves. ibid.
This is all a bit Lock-Stock, innit. ibid. gangsta to gangsta
Football and drugs – a perfect Saturday afternoon. The 51st State 2002 starring Samuel L Jackson & Robert Carlyle & Emily Mortimer & Sean Pertwee & Ricky Tomlinson & Meatloaf & Paul Barber & Jake Abraham et al, director Ronny Yu, Liverpool dealer
Do you know what the worst book ever written ever was? Football: It’s a Funny Old Game by Kevin Keegan. Red Dwarf s1e5: Confidence and Paranoia, Holly, BBC 1998
I am now fluent in all the deceptive arts – I could work for FIFA. Red Dwarf s11e3: Give and Take
Football is a tribal sport, it’s a pack acting in concert. Martin Amis’s England, BBC 2014
Football: many young fans were carried away by a culture of casual violence. Dominic Sandbrook, The 70s III: Goodbye Great Britain 75-77, BBC 2013
Man U v Wolves: The Stratford Enders went on the rampage ... Fourteen people were stabbed ... They even ransacked the Wolves’ club shop. ibid.
Football violence had become a brutal nationwide epidemic. ibid.