football

Gareth Miller grabbed the beer first, then the hotdog, because if there__ one thing you don__ want to be caught dead without at these sorts of events it__ beer. The hotdog was strictly for show, a prop, a way of blending in.Burst of static in his right ear: __-man, you read me? What__ yo_ twenty, dawg?__areth departed the concession stand, stopped, looked down at his hands, and tossed the hotdog into the first trash receptacle he saw. Raising his wrist to his mouth, he spoke into the cuff of his long-sleeved tee. __oncession stand, Section B. Over.__llowing his hand to linger by his chin, he gingerly scratched his cheek as if he had meant to do it all along. The same voice: __o, I__ in position. Ready when you is.__areth cringed while crossing the wide concourse, checking both directions. The giant hallway was the main drag of a ghost town, its only residents a solitary custodian sweeping debris into a portable waste bin and the concession crew to his rear.

Even if you are having a nightmare day during which nothing will go right, never cease looking for the ball. In the end everything will come right, for football is a game that rewards those who show courage.

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

When truth becomes like a football that is kicked and tossed around by passers-by. That grieves God__ heart

The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.

I see football as an art and all players are artists.If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

To be perfectly honest, if I had my way women wouldn__ even be allowed inside grounds, and I certainly believe that if a ground is sold out and a male of the species is locked outside, someone should go in, grab the nearest female and throw her out so that the bloke can have her seat.

Women__ football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn__ and they don__. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will.

We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,_ and I thought I__ better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn__ belong to, __ant a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it, but ultimately that__ what they want. That__ the goal. Men do not have goals. Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich, or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for the fact that they have no real goals.___ollocks,_ said Ronnie.__hat, of course, is the other main difference.

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.

Well we certainly don't want to see that kind of thing,_ admonished Jeff Stelling. __id it calm down?___o,_ shouted Kamara. __t got worse. The police were just getting involved when the chairman was hit by a pie thrown from the crowd.___as he injured?_ asked Stelling, struggling to suppress a giggle.__ don__ think so,_ laughed Kamara. __e sat down and started eating it!

I think you're a shit,_ said Keith sharply. __ think much of what you__e done this season is shit and I think what you've put everyone involved with this club through is shit. How__ that?

Oh really?_ said Mayes raising a mocking eyebrow which put Rob in mind of a poor man__ Roger Moore. __nd what on earth makes you think that you of all people would be allowed anywhere near our board meeting? Rob__ smile widened as he realised that he was about to have one of those golden bombshell moments of the type he__ been on the receiving end of all too frequently over the last few days. __ecause Mr. Mayes, I__ your new chairman.