Subject: Colemanballs (Page 27)

It really needed the blink of an eyelid, otherwise you would have missed it.

English football player

Argentina are the second-best team in the world, and there’s no higher praise than that.

English former football player & manager

It's always very satisfying to beat Arsenal, as indeed Arsenal would admit.

English football player

You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

English soccer commentator

He wasn’t really trying to score with that shot.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Now both teams want the ball… Sheffield want the ball, and so do United.

English football player & commentator

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too – one year we came second.

The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

As with every young player, he’s only 18.

Scottish football player & manager

He’ll be giving everything, but he hasn’t got everything to give.

Scottish football player

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

We don’t have to play them every week, although we do play them next week.

British football commentator

You’re not sure if the ball is going to bounce up or down.

Irish football player & manager

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

British football 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

He hit that one like an arrow.


Manchester United will find it very intimidating with 100 screaming fans in the Bernabeu.

English football player & manager

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post.

English football commentator

Manchester United have hit the ground running – albeit with a 3-0 defeat.

British football player

With the very last kick of the game Macdonald scored with a header.


It was easier to miss than score.

English football player