Paul Merson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

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.

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

Goals dictate how matches go.

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

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

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

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

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

Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

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

Paul Lambert has learned Fabian Delph the game.

Confidence is a horrible thing

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

You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.