Footie quotes

[Gav]

A collection of Some Media Quotes- Long winded but some funny ones there ( especially the steve staunton a nd keith o Neill ones )

Armstrong hits the back of Zanetti.
- Headline after Chris Armstring copies Javier Zanetti to score a clever free kick.

Malice in Sunderland.
- Sunday Tribune headline after Roy Keane is sent off at Sunderland

Loony Toons.
- The Times, after Newcastle duo Dyer and Bowyer are sentoff for fighting each other

Fulham Football Club seeks a Manager / Genius.
- Newspaper article on Fulham's hunt for a manager 1991.

Portugal Destroyed By Iraq.
- Teletext headline after Iraq beat Portugal in the Olympics

11th November, 1997: England have drawn with Italy in Rome, Man U have beaten Juventus. The Premier League is clearly the best league in the World and England will win the World Cup without breaking into a sweat.
18th March, 1998: England have been beaten by Chile, Man U are knocked out of the Champion's League by Monaco. English players have no skill and England will go out in the first round of the World Cup.
And all this in the space of just over 4 months. Amazing, really.
- A Study In Perspective...from rec.sport.soccer paul@i8spamacorns.demon.co.uk (Paul Louis)

Like the theatre and the novel, English football is constantly in decline, someone once wrote.
- Ian Ridley, "The Guardian", in a week when England's top 3 lose in Europe

Meanwhile, Rangers can clinch the Scottish title at Parkhead today, but out of kindness and security considerations, it would probably be better if they waited.
- Dion Fanning (Rangers won 3-0, 3 players were sent off, and the referee was attacked)

"I refereed Croatia against Bosnia at a time when they were at war with each other and it was an easier game to handle than the Old Firm."
- Hugh Dallas, Scottish referee

The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: someone who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football.
- Sandy Strang

Transfer deadline day: An institution which often appears to have been preserved to allow John Burridge & Clive Allen to see more of the country, is upon us again.
- Newspaper Article

You can't win anything with kids.

- Match Of The Day pundit Alan Hansen comments on Manchester United's 3-1 opening day defeat by Aston Villa. Guess who won the league that year?
Ally McCoist : "That was the goal that killed off the game."
Des Lynam : "Actually Ally, I think what you meant to say is, this was the goal that inspired Marseille to a great fight-back. We wouldnt want any of our viewers to switch off."
- BBC half-time analysis of the UEFA cup final with Parma 2 up against a hapless Marseille. Parma ran out 3-0 winners.
"There's Only One John Parrot."
- Celtic fans serenade former Rangers hero Ally McCoist in his last professional game
To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.
- Gary Lineker comments on a Wimbledon game

The BBC arent interested in buying Wimbledon, but maybe Ceefax would be?
- Lineker, several years later, after Sky tries to buy Manchester United

"I felt sorry for the match ball – it came off the pitch crying".
- Johan Cruyff comments on the low technical standard of Deportivo v Juventus

"The score is Sunderland nil, Leicester nil, the temperature is nil (32 degrees) and the entertainment value is not much above nil."
- BBC Radio 5 Live regrets covering Sunderland v Leicester

Bury 1 Watford 3 :
This match had more excitement and chances than Bury fans expect in an entire season.

- Julie Stott, "The Sun"
It isn't a misprint, Charlton are on top.
- The Daily Mail headline, after relegation favourites Charlton top the Premier League after 2 games
Coventry 2 Rest Of The World (sorry, Chelsea) 1
- England's Express newspaper reports multi-nation side Chelsea's defeat
The Italian Job III - Inter Blow Arsenal's Bloody Doors Off!
- Headline from The Daily Mirror after Arsenal lose 0-3 to Inter Milan

Faroes 1, Fairies 1.

- Headline in two Scottish newspapers after the Scots draw their Euro 2000 qualifier

David Attenborough talked louder than that when he was sat with them gorillas.

- Football365's opinion on Ray Harford's "quiet" voice
They missed the confidence that Massimo Taibi’s presence gave to each player… specifically, the confidence that with him around, they wouldn’t be the worst performer on the pitch.
- Football365's attempts to explain Man Utd'd displays in Brazil
Scholes spent less time on the left wing than Tony Blair.
- F365 review of England's dire performance v Slovakia

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture’s most competent protagonists?

- Pete Gill, on "Football365", after Southampton beat Norwich 4-3

"I wouldn't trust Newcastle’s back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels."

- Jonathan Pearce, as Newcastle are beaten in the FA Cup by Wolves 3-2

In the days before the abolition of the maximum wage it was possible to influence results by the strategic distribution of meat products to the opposition

- The Guardian in nostalgic mode
You're making him look like Marc Overmars, and he's making you look like Jaap Stam!
- From The Guardian, evidently someone is having a bad game...
You know, of course, that this ( slagging off pre-season buys ) is deeply foolish because it dooms you to being on the end of a hat-trick or a defensive display so towering that the epic scale of it can only be appreciated when it is set beside the Seattle Space Needle in a acomputer simulation.
- The Guardian, Season 98-99 Preview ( Jaap Stam & Stephane Guivarch are the players )
If the English have a patent on hooliganism, then they should sue all those countries that have copied their product. It would be a very lucrative stream of royalties.
- Colin Morris (cmorris@infoscape.com)
"Patsy Kensit has infuriated her ex, Liam Gallagher, by bringing up their son Lennon as a Manchester United fan. Gallagher is a fervent supporter of United's rivals, Manchester City."
- From gossip website Peoplenews.com.
"Where the hell did Sunderland get the unmitigated gall to call their new ground The Stadium Of Light?"
- Danny Kelly, 'Football's Great Imponderables', F365.Com

"I think the match was a goal-less draw and on reflection an uneventful one, but it didn't seem important. The football game was clearly just the excuse all these thousands of people had for coming together. The real reasons they were there was to have a laugh, to express their brilliant subconscious poetic talents, share floppy hot dogs and to reinforce their view of the world and, more importantly, of Barnsley. It was wonderful."
- John Nicholson, "Life at the Bottom", Football365.Com

"Considering the size of their wages, you would have thought that Crespo, Campo and chums could have afforded a mirror."
- Football365 choose hairbands as their worst fashion trend of 2004

"The period at the start of the 2000/2001 season in which we bought Benito Carbone, Stan Collymore and Dan Petrescu was six weeks of madness."
- Bradford Chairman Geoffrey Richmond reflects as the club runs out of money

"Great people, the Irish. Tremendous fans. Terrible partners in a joint bid."
- The Scotsman, after the joint Celtic bid for Euro 2008 fails

"The Irish could really have done with some of these hurleys in Moscow last week."
- UEFA official visiting Croke Park assessing the joint bid

"Why not abolish offside? This falls into exactly the same trap as the administrators who opted for golden goal. The assumption they made was that play would continue as it does at present, ignoring the fact that tactics change to reflect the rules.
With offside, if you abolish it then midfield players almost vanish as teams leave three up front and four at the back to counter the opposition's three. The remaining outfield trio chase up and down the 80 yards in between and inevitably just hoof it. All this became clear when a trial was conducted in youth tournaments.
With the golden goal, teams become more afraid of losing a goal than they are motivated to try and score one. And we've had to watch this experiment fail in the most important games in the world of football, rather than something that matters to hardly anyone."
- Philip Cornwall, "Football365.Com"

Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.
- Philip Cornwall, "Football365.Com"

UEFA is alarmed that the fight to become the champion from England and Scotland to Italy, Portugal, Norway and Latvia is increasingly being contested by small numbers of clubs who have used Champions League revenue to outstrip the rest.
- The Irish Independent, after UEFA chief Lennart Johannsson labels the CL a 'monster'

These clubs have become combative empires and the substitutions were their own arms race.
- The Irish Times takes a unique view on the Chelsea v Man Utd Carling Cup SemiFinal

Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.
- Matthew Engel, "The Financial Times"

It is ten years since Blackburn Rovers, the last club to shake off the burden of tradition on which English football is built, bought the Premiership title. When they did, their owner Jack Walker cried. If Roman Abramovich sheds tears it will be because he has no worlds left to conquer... and still we wonder what Abramovich wants. He cheered yesterday, a happy man watching the team he built in two seasons conquer football's oldest league. But will he be the Jay Gatsby of the Sky age with Chelsea's success no more than a chimera? Roman Abramovich grew up in an empire derided as evil. In west London, he has built a kingdom to serve his megalomania and, in football terms, it is no less pernicious.
- Dion Fanning, as Chelsea storm to their first Premiership title, "The Irish Independent"

Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?
- Simon Kuper, "The Financial Times"

With Sol Campbell injured, Ashley Cole was the only English player on view at Arsenal, and Bayern Munich named only three Germans. Had Paddington Bear replaced Oliver Kahn in goal, Bayern would have had more Peruvians on the pitch than Germans, which tells you everything you need to know about modern trends in European football.
- Paul Wilson, commenting on Champion's League Second Round, "The Guardian"

Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe’s weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next.
- Martin Samuel, "Trivial Pursuits" in "The Times"

THE FANS

"With a packet of sweets and a winning smile, Arsene Wenger's a paedophile."

- Man Utd fan chant to taunt the manager of rivals Arsenal
"We've got Abramovich; you've got a drunken b*tch."
- Chelsea fans taunt Norwich City fans over their 'tired and emotional' director Delia Smith

"I prayed Jeff Eckhardt wouldn't score. That's a terrible name."

- Cardiff fan Graham Hall, who had pledged to change his name to that of the first Bluebirds player to score last Saturday. Hall told The Sun that since the game ended 0-0, he now intends to go under the name of his favourite player, Kevin Nugent.
"Two Andy Gorams : There's Only Two Andy Gorams."
- Celtic fans taunt Rangers Goalkeeper Andy Goram amid rumours about him suffering from schizophrenia
"Drink when you're driving, you only drink when you're driving, drink when you're driving."
- West Ham fans taunt West Brom fans after striker Lee Hughes is arrested

"I know it sounds awful, but it just hit me half-way through my stag night that I'd rather be going to the match with the lads than marrying Nicola."

- Hereford fan, cancelling his wedding to watch FA Cup game v Aylsebury.
"When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed."
- Danny Baker, Five Live, Millwall fan.
"If I wasn't praying for City, just think where we might be."
- Manchester City chaplain Tony Porter in the club's official magazine, CITY.
"Don't go now"
"Why not?"
"You'll miss the best bit."
"What's that?"
"Booing them off the pitch"
- Reported exchange between two Nottm Forest fans.
"4-4-2! 4-4-2! 4-4-2!"
"Let's say I play 4-4-2 at home against Portsmouth and we lose 0-3. Do I then start booing the fans?"
- Fulham manager Chris Coleman sticks with his 4-5-1 formation despite fans' chants

"When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other’s misery."

- Matthew Syed, "Polish Fans take pity on the lone Englishman", The Times.

"I want to believe in Houllier's Liverpool. I want to detect a grand plan. I want to stop shouting vulgarities at TV screens every time I spot Vladimir Smicer. Trouble is, I can't do any of these things. I can't look at Djimi Traore without seeing a new-born pony."

- Vincent Hogan, "The Irish Independent"

"Is being a Manchester United midfielder second only to suicide bomber in the list of dangerous professions these days?"

- Football365 comments on the injury crisis affecting Manyoo's midfield

"Berwick Rangers v Rangers : Live, 7pm on Sky Sports One. It's a crazy mixed-up world where a club in England can play in the Scottish Cup against a Scottish club who want to play in England. Why don't they just swap grounds?"

- Football365.Com TV Watch

"Burnley v Grimsby : Live, 7.30pm on ITV Sport. More audience share hara-kiri from the folk at Monkeyvision, putting a match with decidedly 'selective' appeal up against Coronation Street, Eastenders, Buffy and Band Of Brothers."

- Football365.Com TV Watch

We politely ask the barman if we can watch the England-USA game on the telly. England score, I cheer. England score again. I cheer louder. Then someone kicks me under the table. I look up. Several large gentlemen at the bar are staring in our direction. I start to notice details that have previously escaped our attention. Like the crossed shillelaghs over the Sinn Fein flag. And the map of Ireland with the border Tippexed out. Oh. Bugger.

- Steven Wells recalls a visit to a New York sports bar for Football365

BIZARRE

"I believe in a Methuselah, Frankenstein, alien beings, flying saucers and the hand of God. But most of all, I believe in on-loan goalkeepers from Swindon who score goals in the dying seconds"

- Carlisle chairman Michael Knighton in The Sunday Times, after his keeper scores a winning goal in injury time to avoid relegation and keep them in the Football League.
"They are definitely among us and there is a massive conspiracy in place. I think there is a massive cover-up. There are also organisations in place far more powerful than governments. And we don't know the truth because we can't handle it, the truth about alien existence would frighten people. They would rather ignore it than deal with it."
- James Beattie, Southampton Striker, talking to club's official website

"I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power."

- Rupert Lowe, Southampton Chairman, on the club's situation (what's going on over there???)

Tell the Kraut to get his ass up front. We don't pay a million for a guy to hang around in defence.

- New York Cosmos Executive, on Franz Beckenbauer's positioning
Not all breeds of genetically-engineered athletes were accepted. For the 2224 World Cup, Scotland fielded a goalkeeper who was a human oblong of flesh, twenty four foot by eight, that filled the entire goal. Somehow they still failed to qualify for the second round.
- Grant Naylor,"Better than Life"
So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wegner because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?
- Frank Skinner
According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.
- Nick Hancock, after Alex Ferguson blamed a Manchester United defeat on his team wearing grey shirts that were hard to see
"Robbie Savage, Dennis Wise, A Sex Toy, A Teddy Bear, A Players' Bust-Up. It Could Only Be Leicester City’s Xmas Bash!"
- The Mirror.

Arthur Smith, who co-wrote An Evening With Gary Lineker and My Summer With Des but died on his ass last time Media Watch saw him doing stand-up, has streaked down Balham High Street singing the Moldovan national anthem after losing a bet that fellow comedian Tony Hawks could not beat the entire Moldovan national football team at tennis. It took Hawks, a former Equity tennis champion, nearly 18 months to complete the feat

- The Daily Telegraph.
"A Manchester United soccer fan donated cells so his brother could have a life-saving transplant: on condition his sibling switched his support from arch rivals Manchester City."
- Reuters

At one stage, I was involved in a discussion which centered on a flight plan around cruise missile attack paths. They seemed to know where the missiles were coming from.

- an Irish FA official comments on negotiations with UEFA about postponing the Macedonia v Ireland game during the Kosovo crisis.
"I'm not a Catholic."
- Unknown Celtic player's response to an unknown Rangers player in the tunnel after the Ranger's player's racist insult had been met by a punch to the face by the Celtic player
Off to an absolute flier, Kenny Dalglish’s Rovers took the newly launched Premiership by storm just weeks after they needed a penalty, courtesy of David Speedie being hit by a sniper in the twin towers, to scrape past Leicester in the play-offs.
- Football 365 looks back
"Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me."
- George Boateng provides Edgar Davids with a clear alibi in the Dutch sex scandal

"There is something about the existential predicament of the 'keeper, those long periods of boredom interspersed with moments of terror, which can drive a man up there, where he can hear the strange music. Often the goalkeeper is a more complex individual than the outfield players. The idea of being both an observer and a participant seems to attract artists and intellectuals such as Patrick Kavanagh and Albert Camus.
We demand that they be dependable, even if we know that like the former Wolves 'keeper John Burridge, they are given to watching Match Of The Day in full kit and gloves. In Latin America, where every second 'keeper seems to be dubbed El Loco, they have perhaps given up the illusion that they will ever get any sense out of such men."
- Declan Lynch, "The Loneliness of the Long-Term Goalie", Irish Independent.

Essentially it was a philosophical debate dressed up as football talk. Čamonn Dunphy was blaming Alex Ferguson's system for Man Utd's failure on the night. ("A tactical miscalculation of epic proportions.") Liam Brady argued it was the players who should take responsibility. ("They didn't perform.") In other words, is society to blame - or the individual? It couldn't last but oh, it was beautiful while it did.
- Tommy Conlon, in the aftermath of Man Utd 0-1 AC Milan, "The Irish Independent"

Liverpool, the wise said, could not win against Juventus. They were top of the Italian League, mean in defence and schooled in the ways of European football. Benitez knew better, he knew that Liverpool could bring ferocity, the best of the English game, to Juventus. When Manchester United were in their prime they did the same, but in recent years, Ferguson has taken a more cerebral approach and United have failed. They spent their Champions League game against Milan in effect apologising for not being better footballers when they should have been ferocious.
- Dion Fanning, after Liverpool reach the Champions League Semis, "The Irish Independent"


Injury-jinxed Keith O’Neill has been dealt a cruel below in his latest comeback campaign. The Coventry winger broke his hand on a punchbag at the training ground while recovering from a foot injury.
- The Sun

"In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country?"
"Brazil."
- Anne Robinson & "Weakest Link" contestant

Barney Davidson has quit managing Gretna Ladies – currently fourth in the same division as Manchester United, Liverpool and Blackburn ladies - because of lesbian rows. He said:"Two girls were having a relationship but one of them went off with another girl. This caused huge problems within the team. Women’s football is rife with this problem. It is very cliquey and is destroying the game. Sir Alex Ferguson has no idea what I have had to go through."
- The Daily Star

Darth Vader links up with Exeter City
- Headline from Ananova.Com when actor David Prowse becomes an honorary director at Exeter

Matthew The Netherlands.
- The spellchecker does its job on Charlton's Matt Holland in "The Independent"

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.
- Philip Cornwall, reviewing the England-Turkey game for Football365

No soup or pizza allowed inside for safety reasons.
- Sign at away dressing room when Arsenal visited Man City after the 'Battle of the Buffet'

Wanchope holding back Costa Rica years. I'm simply red for the season: Mills. Money's not too tight to mention: Moyes. "Cisse can be a new flame for Reds: Roux
- Teamtalk's headliners reveal themselves as Simply Red fans

Only The Sheikh And Strach Can Put The Freshness Back
- Headline from Squarefootball

Do You Know The Way To Score Jose?
- The Daily Mirror after Jose Reyes' first goal in England. At the wrong end.

Done Up Like A Skipper.
- The Daily Record headline after Craig Moore is stripped of his captaincy by Rangers

( Over the sound of "Everything I Do - I Do It For You" )
"This is Bryan Adams...he's Canadian...and this Tuesday...it's payback time."
- Irish station TV3 runs ads for its coverage of Ireland v Canada

"Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?"
- Sepp Blatter, FIFA Chief and unreconstructed male

"As a footballer’s wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers’ Wives."
- Karren Brady, CEO of Birmingham City and wife of footballer Paul Peschisolido

Congo : Lightning strikes during a football match in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing all 11 members of one team whilst leaving the opposing team untouched, leading to accusations of witchcraft.

DEEP

In the modern world of raw-knuckled competition between nations, we should be grateful for the fact that football is war by other means.
- The Times (of London)

"Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football."
- Real Madrid's sporting manager, Argentinian Jorge Valdano

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human."
- Carl Sagan, "The Demon Haunted World"

To think of football as merely 22 hirelings kicking a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and cat-gut, Hamlet so much ink and paper. It is conflict and art.
- JB Priestley

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.
- Desmond Morris, "The Soccer Tribe"

'Football is only a game.' That is the most outrageous nonsense of the lot. Football is a science, it's an art, it is war, ballet, drama, terror and joy all rolled into one.
- Tom Utley, "The Daily Telegraph"

"This is man reaching the very peak of his possibilities."
- Mark Dowd, on football at its very best


When England fans cup their hands over their eyes to imitate early aviator goggles and hum the Dambusters theme tune at German fans, it is, primarily, for a laugh. They do not really think that a goal from Michael Owen in some way reinforces the VE Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square. Nor is this one-way traffic. It was the Scottish fans who rather wittily barracked the Brazilians over their non-existent GDP six years ago. Every country reaches for what it has to hand in order to cow or mock the opposition; England fans are far from alone in this and it is nothing to do with the English 'colonial mentality'.
- Rod Liddle, "English Hooligans are Pussycats", "The Spectator"

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: It misses the point somehow.
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
- Nick Hornby, "Fever Pitch"

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
- JB Priestley, writing in 1933

Football is a very simple game. For 90 minutes 22 men go running after the ball and at the end the Germans win.
- Gary Lineker

If they dive, we dive.
- Germany's Philsophy On Diving

All I know of morality I learned from football
- Albert Camus

It matters not who wins or loses, but who gets the blame.
- The Times

[05 Milan]

that Congo-bit was one of the funniest things I've ever read

[Stu Monty]

Cheers for that Gav, heard some of it before but all the same it was a very good read.

Now, where's my evening gone?

[Dirk]

If anyone hasn't read any Albert Camus get the Plague it is undeniably one of the greatest conte philosophique ever. A truly brilliant novel.

[Paul]

Read it in the original French when I was 17 (La Peste) and it changed the whole way I see the world. Camus is my hero: Nobel Laureate, international footballer, resistance leader, journalist and philosopher. A true genius.

[Stu Monty]

Originally Posted by Paul

Read it in the original French when I was 17 (La Peste) and it changed the whole way I see the world. Camus is my hero: Nobel Laureate, international footballer, resistance leader, journalist and philosopher. A true genius.

oooh get you!!!

Camus is someone I want to read but never have. I thirst for knowledge on figures who will change my thinking. Che, Marx, Luther King and the likes.

I'm currently reading Malcom X's autobiography and it's brilliant. So interesting to see him change from street scum to a man who would educate the masses on how the white man tried to eradicate the black man's history and legacy.

For anyone who doesn't know the X is a replacement of the slave surname the white man gave the black man.

[Paul]

Originally Posted by Stu Monty

oooh get you!!!

Fucking hell - how "Pseuds' Corner" was that? What a twat! The reason I read it in French was that I was doing French A-level (in a kind of half-arsed, lazy fucker kind of way). That novel was only thing I enjoyed about the entire two year course.

[Dirk]

Originally Posted by Paul

Fucking hell - how "Pseuds' Corner" was that? What a twat! The reason I read it in French was that I was doing French A-level (in a kind of half-arsed, lazy fucker kind of way). That novel was only thing I enjoyed about the entire two year course.

Merde. Tu es fanfaron.

[Dirk]

Missed out the un.

[Aaron Miller]

the stranger is camus' greatest work. the plague and the fall are both good, but you can't beat the stranger.

that and 1984 are deffo my all-time favorites!

[Paul]

Originally Posted by Aaron Miller

the stranger is camus' greatest work. the plague and the fall are both good, but you can't beat the stranger.

that and 1984 are deffo my all-time favorites!

Or "L'Etranger" as us pseuds (without French punctuation on our PCs) like to call it.