A Quote by Robert Pires
It's very tough in the U.K. For me, it was totally different. English football and French football are not the same.
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If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
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.
English football, especially Premier League football, is different to most football on the continent.
I was adapted to European football after playing in Germany for three years, but English football is very different to the Bundesliga.
Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, they showed me what is English football. It's tough, it's difficult and they showed me how life is like in professional football.
You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.
A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.
Football in Murphy is very different. It's very passionate and you breathe football everywhere. In every square there are some children playing football.
I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.
English football is really different to football in other countries.
English football is very strong physically, but Spanish football is more technical.
English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.
I don't think it's much different at this level. It just feels like playing high school football, college football. It's the same games, the same routes.
Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.
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