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> [“Barcelona fans labor under the touchingly innocent belief that everyone else in the world, apart from Real Madrid and Espanyol fans, is happy to accept that their club is the biggest on earth and quite simply the bees' knees of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/barcelona-fans-labor-under-the-touchingly-innocent-belief-that/)

[Phil Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-ball/)

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## More by Phil Ball

> [“There is so much morbo festering between these two sides that they would have to employ a very powerful priest to exorcise the phenomenon,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/there-is-so-much-morbo-festering-between-these-two-sides-that-they/)

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> [“Never let the facts get in the way of a good national legend.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/never-let-the-facts-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-national-legend/)

[Phil Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-ball/)

> [“Barcelona fans labor under the touchingly innocent belief that everyone else in the world, apart from Real Madrid and Espanyol fans, is happy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/barcelona-fans-labor-under-the-touchingly-innocent-belief-that/)

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> [“Regions remembered who had fought for whom, and they have not forgotten. Football grounds grew up out of the divided earth and have not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/regions-remembered-who-had-fought-for-whom-and-they-have-not/)

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> [“I reserve the right to do what I like" he (Manuel Ruíz de Lopera) announced to the press, a statement that rather sums up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/i-reserve-the-right-to-do-what-i-like-he-manuel-ru-z-de-lopera/)

[Phil Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-ball/)

> [“The essential absurdity of football - that it has become so important - is nine-tenths of the poetry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/the-essential-absurdity-of-football-that-it-has-become-so-important/)

[Phil Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-ball/)

> [“The terrible beauty of Spanish football is that someone, somewhere, hates your guts and will always be delighted to demonstrate this when your team…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/the-terrible-beauty-of-spanish-football-is-that-someone-somewhere/)

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> [“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/the-great-artists-and-poets-may-have-gone-but-football-is-here/)

[Phil Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-ball/)

> [“Que se jodan.'It was as if the girl had summed up, in three words, the way Spanish regions really feel about each other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/que-se-jodan-it-was-as-if-the-girl-had-summed-up-in-three-words-the/)

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> [“In Coruña, people sit around on the sea walls or the rocks and stare out to sea, as if they expect Francis Drake to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-ball/in-coru-a-people-sit-around-on-the-sea-walls-or-the-rocks-and-stare/)

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