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Northern Irish sportscaster, Birth: 25-6-1952 Alan Green Quotes
1.
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
Alan Green

2.
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
Alan Green

3.
Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that
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4.
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
Alan Green

5.
That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
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6.
This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
Alan Green

7.
A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
Alan Green

8.
Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
Alan Green

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9.
They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative
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10.
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.
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11.
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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12.
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!
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13.
Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing
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14.
It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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15.
John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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16.
John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
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17.
Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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18.
Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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19.
As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
Alan Green

20.
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
Alan Green

21.
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
Alan Green

22.
The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
Alan Green

23.
Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
Alan Green

24.
I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
Alan Green

25.
Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it's about being human.
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26.
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.
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27.
I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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28.
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
Alan Green