7+ Simon Kuper Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Simon Kuper quotes and sayings.

I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch. — Simon Kuper

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity. — Simon Kuper

Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent? — Simon Kuper

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies. — Simon Kuper

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business. — Simon Kuper

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think. — Simon Kuper

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere. — Simon Kuper