Paul Merson Quotes

• There's only one person gets you sacked and that's the fans

  Paul Merson

  Fans, Persons

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• If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

  Paul Merson

  Past, Barbers, Walking

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• United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep

  Paul Merson

  Fall, Sleep, Winning

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• In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

  Paul Merson

  Class, World, England

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• I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

  Paul Merson

  Football, Team, Thinking

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• David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

  Paul Merson

  Tree, Gone, Championship

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• Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

  Paul Merson

  Football, Player, Two

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• Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

  Paul Merson

  Reading, Be Confident, Stupid Sports

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• Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady

  Paul Merson

  Thinking, Years, Too Much

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• Goals dictate how matches go.

  Paul Merson

  Football, Goal

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• That shot moved like... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut

  Paul Merson

  Shots, Shops, Moved

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• Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

  Paul Merson

  Football, Bags, Everton

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• As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'

  Paul Merson

  Broken, Ifs

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• It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air

  Paul Merson

  Air, Play, Difficult

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• When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

  Paul Merson

  Soccer, Football, Player

  "Merson cashes in on McGhee's peace offering" by Mark Tallentire, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2003.

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• The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We [Arsenal] played against Milan in the European Supercup [in 1995]. Maldini marked me and I didn't even get a kick of the ball all game. He was just unbelievable.

  Paul Merson

  Player, Games, Balls

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• Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now

  Paul Merson

  Football, Yesterday

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• If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’.

  Paul Merson

  Team, Chopping, Ifs

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• To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

  Paul Merson

  Winning, Champions League, Porto

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• When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long

  Paul Merson

  Long, Everton

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• Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets

  Paul Merson

  Accolades, Underrated

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• Confidence is a horrible thing

  Paul Merson

  Horrible, Horrible Things

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• You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

  Paul Merson

  Noses, Want, Faces

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• Paul Lambert has learned Fabian Delph the game.

  Paul Merson

  Games

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• The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

  Paul Merson

  Oxygen, Medical, Bigs

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