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If we are going back to the Greats of Management then there's the all-time legendary Bill Shankly one: "Football is not a matter a life and death - in fact it doesn't matter very much at all." (I think I've got it right?)

On a goalie (possibly John Jackson of Palace) who was rather large/slow: "He goes down in instalments."

This isn't quite the on the same lines but I think it needs to be recorded for the purposes of history. This was many years ago and I remember it for word for word. Peter Withe was the 'expert' summariser and he came out with this masterpiece: "Sometimes the inevitable does happen and when it...

This thread will probably die a very quick death, but for some reason I thought of 2 old school phrases that I've heard used to describe footballers back in the day... 1. To describe a slow striker: "I've seen milk turn quicker" 2. To describe a striker with an inaccurate shot: "He's hit more...