BOTTLING IT

They say football
is a game of two
halves. Not for me
it isn’t. I regularly
down eight or nine
pints while watching
a live game on Sky
TV in my local.

Adrian Bond

The Scottish football fan’s ability
to smuggle drink into matches makes
Papillon look like an amateur.

Patrick Murray

The days of training on
Guinness are over.

Kevin Short

GEORGE BEST NEEDED
FORTY PINTS

Unfortunately ambiguous newspaper headline
after Best received his liver transplant.
The reference is to blood, not beer

Kevin Keegan isn’t fit to lace
George Best’s… whiskeys.

John Roberts

It took a lot of bottle for
Tony Adams to own up
to his drink problem.

Ian Wright

I pissed it all up against a wall.

Brian Clough explaining how drink
ruined his managerial career

Alcoholism V Communism

Banner on display during the 1982 World
Cup when Scotland were playing Russia

The long ball down the middle is
like pouring beer down the toilet.
It cuts out the middle man.

Jack Charlton

Let me recommend shopping to
any young professional football
player who feels they’re in danger
of going off the rails. It has less risk
of personal injury than a punch-up
outside a nightclub, and you very
rarely end up with a hangover.

Brian McClair