How Not to Be a Professional Footballer
A source page for quotes linked to Paul Merson.
“The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him”
“To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute”
“It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air”
“That shot moved like... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut”
“United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep”
“In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.”
“If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.”
“I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.”
“Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.”
“There's only one person gets you sacked and that's the fans”
“As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'”
“David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree”
“Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets”
“When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'”