Matthew Engel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.
-- Matthew Engel

#Soccer #Sunday #Tactics
Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.
-- Matthew Engel

#Traits
Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles
-- Matthew Engel

#Octopus #Bats
Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.
-- Matthew Engel

#Soccer #Football #Running
It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.
-- Matthew Engel

#Soccer #Football #Sex

At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.
He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.
In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.
The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.
It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. Iâ€™d fantasized about those lips way too many times. Sheâ€™d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Matthew Engel famous quotes

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