Subject: Colemanballs (Page 24)

If ever a goal ever needed a game, this is it.

British football player & broadcaster

He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics so he’s used to being out in front.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

You can see how O'Leary is absolutely racked with pain, and realizes it.

English football player & commentator

Steve Hodge has been unfit for two weeks, well, no, for 14 days.

British football commentator

That’s another nail in his afternoon.

British auto racing driver & announcer

Well, we got nine and you can’t score more than that.

British football commentator

He was just about to pull the trigger on his left foot.

English football player & manager

That goal surprised most people, least of all myself.

English football player

If there’s one thing Gus Uhlenbeek’s got, it’s pace and determination.


Well Clive, it’s all about the two ‘M’s – movement and positioning.

English former football player & manager

… and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a ball of string.

English sports commentator

A game is not won until it is lost.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

If we played like that every week, we wouldn’t be so inconsistent.

English football player & manager

The front wheel crosses the finish line, closely followed by the back wheel.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this Cup; the last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs.

English football commentator

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The only thing Norwich didn’t get was the goal that they finally got.

English football player

If confidence could be bought, all the rich people would have it and all the poor people would have to… make their own arrangements.

English football player & manager

It was a good match, which could have gone either way and very nearly did.

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

professional football player, coach & executive

With eight or ten minutes to go, they were able to bring Nicky Butt back and give him fifteen to twenty minutes.

Irish football player & executive