Subject: Colemanballs (Page 16)

Dunfermline have a difficult month ahead over the coming 2 or 3 weeks.

Scottish football player

You takes your money, you pays your choice, sort of thing.

If they play together, you've got two of them.

Goalkeepers aren’t born today until they’re in their late 20s or 30s and sometimes not even then.

English football player & manager

Even when he’s changed the system from the 4-3-3 to the 4-3-2, he’s used the same players.


They're two points behind us, so we're neck and neck.

British football commentator

We were a little bit outnumbered there, it was two against two.

Scottish football player

Moutinho using his weight there – all 5’ 7” of it.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I predicted in August Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of the final I stand by that prediction.


Their football was exceptionally good – and they played some good football.

British football commentator

It’s real end-to-end stuff, but unfortunately it’s all up at Forest’s end.

English football player & commentator

We are really quite lucky this year because Christmas falls on Christmas Day.

English football player

The tackles are coming in thick and thin.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

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

Scottish football player

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.

English television football commentator

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

English football player & manager

One moment I’m playing soccer and the next – whack – I wake up in hospital unconscious.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

Nobody took the responsibility of going to kill Yakin.

Irish football player

The ball could have gone anywhere and almost did.

English professional football player & commentator

Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him.

She’s not [runner] Ben Johnson… but then, who is.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator