94 Quotes by Paul Merson

But that's why the fans liked me so much. 'Cos I am one of them. If they were in one pub down the road, and there was a wine bar up that road, I'd be in the pub with the fans. That was me.

When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you're earning twenty-five pounds at Arsenal, and you have to stay in every Thursday, Friday, you know it is hard.

I'll take the accolades when they are there and I'll take it on the chin when things aren't great.

Everyone knows me from my time at Arsenal. No-one really remembers me at Boro or Villa.

We grew up in an age of playing reserve team football at the stadium. If the first team were playing away, you'd be playing at home, at Highbury, and there would be one man and his dog there. Even though you'd psych yourself up, you still don't get that push.

I like Tammy Abraham and Olivier Giroud, they are good players, but are they going to win you the Premier League? No, and I say that because they are not going to be in the top five or six goal scorers in the league.

You have to get your goalscorers on the pitch when you have to win.

Football is decided on fine margins.

I played in an FA Cup final for Aston Villa and the manager went negative, sitting everyone behind the ball against Chelsea.