Ron Atkinson Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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#4. Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

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

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

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

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#8. Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

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

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#10. Heskey needs to punch his own weight.

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

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

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#13. He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.

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

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

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#16. I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

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#17. 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.

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#18. They are playing above the ground.

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

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

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#21. Our fans have been branded with the same brush

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

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

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#24. If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

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

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

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#27. And he extends and grows even bigger than he is.
(on Peter Schmeichel)

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

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#29. Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

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#30. 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

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

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#32. They scored too early.

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

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

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#35. Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.

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#36. A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#43. How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

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#44. Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

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#45. Huddersfield will want to win this one.

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

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

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

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

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#50. His head just disappeared into his shoulders.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#58. Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

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#59. Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

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#60. He had acres of time there.

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

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

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#63. Their strength is their strength.

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#64. Zero-zero is a big score.

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#65. He must be lightning slow.

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

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#67. 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.

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