“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… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“Regions remembered who had fought for whom, and they have not forgotten. Football grounds grew up out of the divided earth and have not forgotten either.” — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“There is so much morbo festering between these two sides that they would have to employ a very powerful priest to exorcise the phenomenon,… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“Barcelona fans labor under the touchingly innocent belief that everyone else in the world, apart from Real Madrid and Espanyol fans, is happy to… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“Regions remembered who had fought for whom, and they have not forgotten. Football grounds grew up out of the divided earth and have not… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“I reserve the right to do what I like" he (Manuel Ruíz de Lopera) announced to the press, a statement that rather sums up… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“The essential absurdity of football - that it has become so important - is nine-tenths of the poetry.” — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“The terrible beauty of Spanish football is that someone, somewhere, hates your guts and will always be delighted to demonstrate this when your team… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“Que se jodan.'It was as if the girl had summed up, in three words, the way Spanish regions really feel about each other.” — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“In Coruña, people sit around on the sea walls or the rocks and stare out to sea, as if they expect Francis Drake to… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
