Fever Pitch (1997)

Mark Strong: Steve

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Quotes 

• Paul Ashworth : Leave it up to Arsenal to score one goal when they need two.

  Steve : You want them to score the second goal before they score the first?

• Steve : Stanley Matthews was playing First Division football when he was fifty.

  Paul Ashworth : I'll bet you any money you like you're not playing First Division football when you're fifty.

  Steve : [looks at his cigarette]  Well, no. It's the smoking.

  Paul Ashworth : It's NOT the smoking, Steve. It's the crapness.

• [Paul's doorbell is buzzing during the last minute of Liverpool v. Arsenal] 

  Paul Ashworth : [out a window, not really seeing who it is]  Will you please, please, please, please, please just fucking FUCK OFF? You have arrived during the worst sixty seconds of my life, and I really don't want to see you.

  [the window slams shut. The visitor is revealed to be Sarah] 

  Paul Ashworth : [to Steve]  Why ask? And what sort of berk would do that? You'd just about forgive an alien visitor from the planet Tharg, but even then, you'd have...

  [Paul realizes what he's done and runs to the door] 

  Steve : Where're you going? You're mad. You might miss something.