Football quiz: whose autobiographies featured these quotes?

“It was about 2am and there was enough moonlight to see across my open-plan garden, unprotected by fences or even hedges … Vinnie jumped into his Mini and wheel-skidded it across the lawn. Then he fairly screamed off down the road and we could hear him really giving it some stick around the estate.”

“No secrets. It was money. Bundles of it. And I don’t mind admitting that was, in the end, the basic driving force that got me to Spain. Nothing else would have booked me on to the plane.”

“In many ways, I was the Eric Cantona of QPR’s future.”

“I reached into the thin blue carrier bag, pulled out the first can of Stella and cracked it open. It was 11am on Bank Holiday Monday, the streets around Leicester city centre were quiet and for the next seven hours a needle loaded with ink was going to be jamming into my ribs, stomach, hips and back. A four-pack was my anaesthetic.”

“A reporter wrote that we’d named the villa ‘Casa St James’ claiming it was constructed with the proceeds of my pay-off after I got the sack at Newcastle. That infuriated Lynne as well. She wouldn’t want any memories of our time in a place where she never settled.”

“I should have left Liverpool Football Club long before I did. That sounds like a terrible thing to say, but it’s true. I loved the club – still do, always will – but I simply could not rid my mind of Hillsborough.”

“Give me Nesta, and I will give you the Champions League.”

“Brazil was probably the moment you could point to and say that was Total Football. When we walked onto the pitch we were nervous, because we thought that we were playing the team of 1970, which had won the World Cup. It took us 30 minutes to realise that we were actually more skilful than them.”

“When Carlos came to England in 2002 to speak to us, I was waiting for him in my tracksuit. Carlos was immaculately dressed. He has that suaveness about him. He was so impressive that I offered him the job right away.”

“Violence is strangely hypnotic, almost organic in its purity.”

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