Subject: Colemanballs

Colemanballs:

A term coined by British magazine “Private Eye,” to describe verbal gaffes, errors or misuse of words and phrases spoken by British football (soccer) announcers, coaches or players – initially BBC broadcaster David Coleman and the suffix -balls, as in “to balls up” or make a mistake.

Well Ibrox [Stadium] is filling up slowly, but rapidly.


Colemanballs

The minute's silence was immaculate, I have never heard a minute's silence like that.

English football player & manager
Colemanballs

He was on the six-yard line, just two yards away from the goal.

Scottish football player, writer & broadcaster
Colemanballs

That’s another nail in his afternoon.

British auto racing driver & announcer
Colemanballs

Look at those olive trees – they’re two hundred years old – from before the time of Christ!

British football commentator
Colemanballs

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win.

Colemanballs

I spent four indifferent years at Goodison Park, but they were great years.

Colemanballs

Their two wide men, who are basically wingers.

Scottish football player, writer & broadcaster
Colemanballs

We’re calling him the young player of the year, but he’s only 20 years old.

Scottish soccer player & analyst
Colemanballs

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air.

Scottish football player
Colemanballs

It’s slightly alarming the way Manchester United decapitated against Stuttgart.

English football player & announcer
Colemanballs

Now they have got an extra yard of doubtness in their minds.

English football player & commentator
Colemanballs

That’s bread and butter straight down the goalkeeper’s throat.

British football player
Colemanballs

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland.

English football commentator
Colemanballs

That was a inch perfect pass to no one.

England football player
Colemanballs

Ian Durant has grown both physically and metaphorically in the close season.

Scottish football player & manager
Colemanballs

He’s perfectly fit, apart from his physical fitness.

Welsh football player & manager
Colemanballs

I am not a man of faith, but my wife is.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Beliefs Colemanballs Misspokements

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

English football player & manager
Colemanballs

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

Scottish football player & manager
Colemanballs

The first 90 minutes of a football match are the most important.

British football commentator
Colemanballs