Subject: Colemanballs (Page 14)

We had a lovely meal. Lovely. We had a big steak with all the tarnishings.

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

English former football player & manager

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.

He’s got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.

Irish football player & manager

Simon Davies has had a few injuries; maybe he wasn’t fully foot.

English football player & analyst

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

English football player & manager

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is! 

In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

It’s a battle with himself and with the ticking fingers of the clock.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I would like to be a mole on their dressing room wall.

English football player & manager

Signori has all the tricks up his book.

England football player

He’s like all great players – he’s not a great player yet.

English football player

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won’t lay any eggs in the basket.

British football commentator

He’s not going to adhere himself to the fans.

English football player & manager

The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

English television football commentator

Spurs, one of the in-form teams of the moment with successive wins are almost as impressive as Queens Park Rangers with five.

British football player

There’s still 45 minutes to go – for both sides, I would guess.

English professional football player & commentator

If United get through, they’ll play Chelsea or Liverpool, in an all-Premiership tie, which is also an all-English tie, and also an all-British tie.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

We have one David Beckham playing abroad and that would be two.

professional football player, coach & executive