by goodluckgull » 21 May 2015, 09:48
Yesterday I was reading John Lydon's life story ( that's Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols ). It's called "Anger is an Energy". He is a life long Arsenal fan and in the book there is a chapter called "The Beautiful Shame", which ends with the words....
"But £75 a ticket, these days, to go to Arsenal? For that money, you should get to have sex with all the footballers' wives! I'd rather go to a smaller place like Torquay United."
I love him even more for that....
Other great quotes are....
Football's the kind of game where, if your team is doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually look forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theatre of emotions, not dreams.
The biggest joy of being a football fan is that there is ultimately no joy in it at all. It can always get worse.....That's the joy of football - it's total fuc...g pain, and when you do actually win anything, it doesn't last long enough. The pubs close too early, and it's all over. Everybody goes home, and you're left standing there - whaaaauuurgh!
Yesterday I was reading John Lydon's life story ( that's Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols ). It's called "Anger is an Energy". He is a life long Arsenal fan and in the book there is a chapter called "The Beautiful Shame", which ends with the words....
"But £75 a ticket, these days, to go to Arsenal? For that money, you should get to have sex with all the footballers' wives! I'd rather go to a smaller place like Torquay United."
I love him even more for that....
Other great quotes are....
Football's the kind of game where, if your team is doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually look forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theatre of emotions, not dreams.
The biggest joy of being a football fan is that there is ultimately no joy in it at all. It can always get worse.....That's the joy of football - it's total fuc...g pain, and when you do actually win anything, it doesn't last long enough. The pubs close too early, and it's all over. Everybody goes home, and you're left standing there - whaaaauuurgh!
