Subject: Colemanballs (Page 12)

We lost because we didn't win.

I’d like to see him scoring two or more goals in games which United win 1-0.

British sports journalist

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.

Irish football player & manager

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Scottish football player & manager

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

As Phil DeGlenville said, each game is unique, and this one is no different to any other.

English football director

I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

English former football player & manager

Jim Rosenthal to an American goalie: So what’s an American doing playing in goal for Millwall.

The goalie’s reply: I’m trying to keep the ball out.

And with 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.

English sports commentator

I don’t know if that was a good bad one or a bad good one.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome.

British football commentator

Howard Kahn, a lecturer at Edinburgh’s Heriot Watt University, has studied the matter intently and says he’s figured out why Scottish soccer teams can’t seem to win World Cup and other competitions; they’re not good players.

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

The good news for Nigeria is that they’re two-nil down very early in the game.

English football player & manager

They [Rosenborg] have won 66 games, and they’ve scored in all of them.

English football player & commentator

We are now in the middle of the center of the first half.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

A contract on a piece of paper, saying you want to leave, is like a piece of paper saying you want to leave.

English football player & manager

Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn’t bite and has a great tackle.

British football commentator

It’s now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday.

My youth coach told me he’d got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don’t want to know, because by the time they’re 18 I’ll be dead.

Irish football player & manager

He signals to the bench with his groin.

English football player & commentator