Arthur Hopcraft Quotes

• The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Football, People, Alcohol

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