Quotes by Craig Foster

“The PFA and FFA have worked tirelessly in recent months to finalise negotiations.”

“I feel the best contribution I can make to the game is with the media and SBS, and the PFA now has a deeply committed leader with outstanding football, sports law and business credentials in John Didulica.”

“(FFA chairman) Frank Lowy needs to finish the job of revamping the game properly,”

“For 30 years (the late) Johnny Warren talked about an English mafia in Australian coaching,”

“We believe we have done this in a way that not only rewards players for their achievements at the highest level of the game, but ensures all players actively contribute to FFAs efforts to establish football in Australia as a fully professional and commercially viable sport.”

“We would like to thank the players for their commitment to finalising negotiations in the best interests of the Socceroos as a team and the game,”

“Under the CBA, all members of the Socceroos squad are paid equally as all players share equally the sacrifices and privileges associated with representing Australia.”

“They were waving to us, they had lots of smiles, and I saw a couple hold up some fish with great glee.”

“Why? Because it is adapted from England through the proliferation of English coaches in influential positions in the last three decades and it is completely non-technical and tactically infantile.”

“It broke some large steel chains and released 100 tons of harvest fish into the bay to the benefit of the local anglers.”