Subject: Colemanballs (Page 16)

…and now the Northern Ireland Manager, Billy Bingham, will have to put his thinking boots on.

Colemanballs

Even when you’re dead you shouldn’t lie down and let yourself be buried.

English football player & manager
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The Croatians don’t play well without the ball.

English football player & commentator
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There are so many teams now down at the bottom of the Third Division; the FA really has to do something about it.

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

professional football player, coach & executive
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Here we see Tevez’s little curly one.

English football player, manager & sports commentator
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Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment – exactly the position he is at his most menacing.

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Ian St John to Greaves: Is he speaking to you yet?
Greaves: Not yet, but I hope to be incommunicado with him in a very short space of time.

English football player
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An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal.

English soccer player & manager
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If you’re going to score one goal or less, you’re not going to get your victories.

English football player & analyst
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They’ve taken the horns by the scruff of the neck.

English football player & analyst
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

You have got to miss them to score sometimes.

English soccer player & manager
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Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away.

English football player
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The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we come from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man.

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

British football commentator
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It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it worked.

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We lost because we didn't win.

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I don’t really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City.

Scottish football player
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The front three are playing well in tandem.

Scottish soccer player & analyst
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I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

English football player
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