Ron Atkinson quotes:

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  • Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

  • All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

  • He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.

  • Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

  • He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.

  • Zero-zero is a big score.

  • Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it

  • He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.

  • I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

  • He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

  • ...and he extends and grows even bigger than he is. (on Peter Schmeichel)

  • ...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)

  • Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save.

  • Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.

  • For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.

  • His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

  • Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.

  • This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.

  • I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

  • I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.

  • I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

  • A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

  • At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

  • Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

  • He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces

  • He had acres of time there.

  • He must be lightning slow.

  • Heskey needs to punch his own weight.

  • His head just disappeared into his shoulders.

  • How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

  • Huddersfield will want to win this one.

  • I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

  • I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. (said at Stamford Bridge)

  • I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.

  • I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

  • If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

  • I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

  • I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

  • I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

  • Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.

  • Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

  • Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

  • Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.

  • On another night, they'd have won 2-2.

  • One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

  • Our fans have been branded with the same brush

  • Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

  • Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

  • Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

  • Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

  • That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.

  • That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.

  • The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

  • The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

  • The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

  • Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

  • Their strength is their strength.

  • There's a few tired limbs in the blue legs.

  • There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.

  • There's a snap about Liverpool that just isn't there.

  • There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

  • They are playing above the ground.

  • They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

  • They scored too early.

  • They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

  • They've come out at half time and gone bang.

  • They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it...

  • They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

  • We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad-lib.

  • Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.

  • Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

  • Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

  • Yordi circumnavigated Ledley King there.

  • You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past, they'll take the ball.

  • You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area...

  • You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

  • You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.

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