Dimensions
164 x 241 x 38mm
From Bill Shankly's deadpan statement that football "is much more serious" than life and death, to the priceless gaffes - intentional or otherwise - or such commentators as Brian Johnson and David Coleman ("The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey") sport has provided some of the funniest, most memorable and most widely disseminated of 20th century quotations in English.
This book offers over 3000 of these quotations, organised alphabetically under thematic headings. Themes under which quotations are listed include all of the key international sports from athletics to tennis, major sports stars from Curtley Ambrose to Zinedine Zidane, venues from Aintree to Wembley, plus various more general sporting topics such as captaincy, victory, defeat, sport and the media, foul play and sportsmanship.
