Born Quote by Mark Fisher

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

— Cesar Luis Menotti

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at…

— Angela Merkel

People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is,…

— Jonathan Vilma

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a…

— Sepp Blatter

As the scale of football finances increases, we see and hear of the decadence, irresponsibility and greed of the modern player.

— Simon Jordan

Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color,…

— Steve Almond

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

— Eric Cantona

We read and hear a lot about the celebrity culture of football these days, but some people seem to believe that players or coaches…

— Robbie Savage

We're a working class game and we're lads who've come from nothing and all of a sudden are seen by society to earn an…

— Joey Barton

Sometimes you look at footballers and think they're selfish or they don't bring a good image to society. But sometimes people underestimate footballers and…

— Juan Mata

Money is killing football: people are making their decisions based on money.

— Emmanuel Adebayor

Everyone's got issues. There's a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues.

— Troy Deeney