A Quote by Rupert Friend

I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.

Rupert Friend

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Rupert Friend
English - Actor
Born: October 1, 1981

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

Irvine Welsh

The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

Luciana Berger

It's very tough in the U.K. For me, it was totally different. English football and French football are not the same.

Robert Pires

I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury - thin necks, big heads. They're not as coordinated; they're not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth.

Ann McKee

Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.

Roberto Firmino

Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I'm acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.

Lee Byung-hun

I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.

Robin Leach

You can salute the flag. You can revere the flag. You can respect the flag. And all of those are fine. What you cannot do is use the flag as a blindfold. You can't use the flag as a blindfold and not see the things you've seen with your very eyes that tell you that what's keeping this country held back is systemic racism.

Ernie Johnson Jr.

I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.

Vasyl Lomachenko

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

Serge Schmemann

I think flag football is a great alternative, and it's a great game in its own right. It's a wonderful alternative. You can develop all of the skills and athleticism and glean the lessons you can from contact football through playing flag.

Chris Borland

My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.

Sean Astin

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

Brian Clough

Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

Matt Busby

Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.