إذا كنت تريد أن تستشرف صورة المستقبل، تخيل حذاء يدوس ويدمغ وجه إنسان إلى أبد الآبدين. - George Orwell

Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking the ball about, but is a species of fighting.

"Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself."

There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when 'our' side commits it.