February 2012
17 posts
“If you pay them the wages they’ll come. We all kid ourselves: I’ve wanted to play for Tottenham since I was two. I had pictures of Jimmy Greaves on my wall. It’s a load of bullshit. Here’s £80,000 a week. Lovely jubbly.”
—Harry Redknapp (via runofplay)
“Everybody is still waiting for Javier Pastore to present his pièces de résistance: a formidable assist from a pedestal, two slaloms of a perversely serpentine quality in search of the goal—to show, in other words, that the young man is not taking a wide seat, as an Argentinean version of Robert Pires, and that his name is not a literal sketch of a shepherd dog with the cows moseying around the marsh puddles.”
—Ancelotti in Paris: The Ascent of a Gourmand
