Subject: Colemanballs (Page 19)

Some time in the 90 minutes they are going to have to win the game.

English football player & analyst

I’m not disappointed – just disappointed.

English football player & manager

Dave Wottle has completely misjudged this race… and here comes Wottle!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I’ve ever had at this level. Well, he’s the only manager I’ve actually had at this level. But he’s the best manager I’ve ever had.

professional football player

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

So it means that, mathematically, Southampton have 58 points.

English football player

I think that their young legs would have found younger hearts inside them.

English football player & manager

The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

English football commentator

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

English soccer player & manager

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Scottish football player & manager

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

Scottish football player & manager

Well… if the ball had gone in the net… that would have been a goal.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

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

British sports journalist

I don't hold water with that theory.

English soccer commentator

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

British football commentator

In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.

English football player & manager

The Republic-of-China – back in the Olympic Games for the first time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum.

British sports commentator

Mabutt has now played seven consecutive games for England, this is his seventh.

English football commentator

He’s 31 this year – last year he was 30.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome.

British football commentator