“Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.” MenEnoughFactsLeftInterestingResultsMediaFootballHeroDiscoveryFilledPressesManagersSoccerGentlemanParksProportionGood EnoughRealisingVoidHammersAstonishingChairmanLegendaryRare Things Author:Declan Lynch
“There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.” BigsHavensFieldsFootballEmptyFilledMonstersSupposed To BeFootball Field Author:Rob Letterman
“Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.” ShowsGamesFootballFilledDestroyedSpotsFasterPausesMomentumReplay Author:Tony Verna
“I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.” StoriesNightThreeBoysFootballBrotherBedGloryFilledRateHugEldersAnnuals Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” MindChildrenLongHomeCareFilmLeftDifficultNaturalStyleFootballActivityImportanceFilledPatternsHeavyNeighborBeerGamblingHorizonPettyQuarrelsCattleArgentinaFilled Up Author:George Orwell