sport-in-england

"after dinner all the youths of the city goes out into the fields for the very popular game of ball."

"All that was missing to have made it a really smart 1972 middle-class party would have been a few reefers, but footballers wouldn't touch such things. Some footballers might have moved into the middle classes but there are two things they won't have at their parties — drugs and homosexuals."

"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It's nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It's about doing things in style. With a flourish, it's about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom."

"You were kind of an outlier if you even liked football and you were a girl in England. So to come over here and have that opportunity? I've always said America is the land of opportunity. It certainly was for me."

"A fart competing with thunder"

"In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P."

"Matthew Hoggard called the Prime Minister a knob when we were celebrating winning the Ashes at a Downing Street function, and you know what? That's the first thing Hoggy's got right in a while. Blair is a knob."

"I'm struggling now, I've not been to bed yet and behind these sunglasses is a thousand stories."

"N.B. – The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia."

"I've not travelled 6,000 miles to make friends. I'm here to win the Ashes."

"England have only three major problems. They can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field."