Life Is Sweet (1990)

Stephen Rea: Patsy

Quotes 

• Patsy : [in a pub after a few beers]  Far as I'm concerned, football died, the day Arsenal won the double.

  Andy : That's right, yeah.

  Patsy : What was they? Work horses.

  Andy : Boring buggers, ain't they.

  Patsy : Well the Spurs double team? They was artists.

  Andy : They was artists.

  Patsy : 21 quid a week they got. Can you imagine? What do they get today? Millions.

  Andy : And they got their back handers on top of that ain't they.

  Patsy : Poncing round the penalty area with their handbags.

  Andy : Prima donnas.

  Patsy : "Oh, he kicked a me, Ref."

  Andy : Brown, Baker, Henry,

  [both] 

  Andy : Blanchflower

  Patsy : Yeah, Danny boy.

  Andy : Yeah.

  Patsy : He was the architect of the modern game, y'know.

  Andy : That's right, yeah.

  Patsy : Norman, Mackay, Jones, White, Smith, Allen,

  [both] 

  Patsy : Dyson.

  Andy : Yeah, come on you Spurs.

  Patsy : John White, what a player, eh.

  Andy : Yeah.

  Patsy : I used to have a little picture of him on my wall, ringed in black.

  Patsy : Tragic. What a way to go.

  Andy : Struck by lightening.

  Patsy : On a golf course.

  Andy : What a waste, eh. You want another?

• Patsy : Alight, girls.

  Nicola : 'ello boys.

• Patsy : Sorry to bother you on a Sunday like but, eh, I was wondering if Andy was in?

  Andy : Yeah.

  Patsy : Only I was hoping to catch him down in the boozer like but I got a bit held up.

• Wendy : Where're you taking him Patsy?

  Patsy : Don't worry Wendy. A little magical mystery tour.

• Patsy : I promise you Andy, you go down White Hart Lane on a Saturday for the home games, a man of your skills, a couple of hundred beef burgers, you'll make a fortune. I'm telling you. "Excuse me guvnor, I'll have 4 hamburgers, 3 egg burgers, a sausage roll and onion, a bacon egg and cheese roll, a tea, a bovril, and a large vodka." Sold to the man with the beard!