What do you know? Philosophers (and then some famous personalities) also found something in football that they crafted their own intellectual wow-able quotes.
"The goal passes through a series of phases independent of the will of man" -Karl Marx
"All that I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football" -Albert Camus
"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team" -Jean-Paul Sartre
"The goalkeeper is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender. Less the keeper of a goal than the keeper of a dream." -Vladimir Nabokov
"Nothing is simultaneously freer and more constrained than the action of the good player. He quite naturally materialises at just the place the ball is about to fall, as if the ball were in command of him - but by that very fact, he is in command of the ball." -Bourdieu
"Football is working class ballet" -Alf Garnett
"Through a turnstile into another and altogether more splendid kind of life, hurtling with conflict and yet passionate and beautiful in its art." -JBPriestley
"It is not just a simple game. It is a weapon of the revolution" -Che Guevara
"If politics are to be anything other than an empty game, it is towards the goal of the happiness of labour that they must make." -William Morris
"I fell in love with football as I would later fall in love with women: suddenly, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain it would bring" -Nick Hornby
PS Each of these come with a shirt. Precisely how I found these quotes, through shirts being sold online!
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