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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer,

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game…. In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. – Stanley Rous, 1952

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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. – J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928

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Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. – Author Unknown

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The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football. – Sandy Strang

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The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past. – Desmond Morris

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