How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup Quotes

“CONGS CATASTROPHE
In their primal gladiatorial tourney N. Baddesley jousting on their own bailiwick encountered the full and furious blast of Steeple Sinderby's New Look Lads spearheaded by Sid Swift, long-lost Shooting Star idol of Brum fans a handful of time ago. The Ringers clocked up eleven strikes and only the inexorable march of time muffled a full peal of twelve.”
― J.L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup

“In rural England, people live wrapped tight in a cocoon; only their eyes move to make sure nobody gets more than themselves. Popular education has not touched them; they communicate as their fathers did by a flick of the eyeballs, passing down grudges either improve upon or, at very least, in mint condition, from generation to generation.”
― J.L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup

“From a lifetime of buying cheap other folks' enterprise and energy and selling it off dear, Sir Edward knew all there is to know about riding winners on someone else's back.”
― J.L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup