Quotes from David Winner

God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.

Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports.

It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem,

Short, dark, and slight, he looks simultaneously middle-aged and prepubescent, a little worse for wear in any case with his black hair matted like a street cat and his eyes crusted over and bleary.

The defender must first think defensively, but he must also think offensively. For an attacker it is the other way around. Somewhere they meet.

I have this instinct for knowing when a defence is going to relax, or when a defender will make a mistake,' he once said. 'Something inside me says, Gerd, go this way; Gerd, go that. I don't know what it is.' A killer who claimed to hear voices. Serial goalscorer.

We won't lower ourselves to your level, but if it makes you happy to destroy our elegance, then go ahead!