Subject: Colemanballs (Page 23)

Football’s football: If that weren’t the case it wouldn’t be the game that it is.

English football player
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If England are going to win this match, they’re going to have to score a goal.

professional football player, coach & executive
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There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.

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

English football player & manager
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They've been out a long time – credit them for getting back so quickly.

English football player
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The one thing Gordon has brought to this team is a bit of work rate and team spirit.

English-born Jamaican football player
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Well… if the ball had gone in the net… that would have been a goal.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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Signori has all the tricks up his book.

England football player
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

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To me personally, it's nothing personal to me.

English soccer commentator
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I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal’s all time great players; a lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do.

English football player
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You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

English football player & announcer
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He should have felt he probably scored then.

English football player & analyst
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If ever a goal ever needed a game, this is it.

British football player & broadcaster
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He wasn’t really trying to score with that shot.

English football player, manager & sports commentator
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I'm not going to make it a target but it's something to aim for.


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I can’t promise anything but I can promise 100%.

English football player
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I never comment on referees and I’m not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

English former football player & manager
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There’ll be only one winner now – in every sense.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

It’s a game of two teams.

sports announcer
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And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren’t ever in it anyway.

English television football commentator
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