Subject: Colemanballs (Page 30)

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

English football player & announcer

One of the great unknown champions because very little is known about him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Ardiles strokes the ball like it was part of his anatomy.

Irish sports broadcaster

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

English football player & manager

It’s his outstanding pace that stands out.

English-born Jamaican football player

Terry Venables has literally had his legs cut off from underneath him three times as manager.

English football player & commentator

Gary Neville says that Porto are a bunch of girls who go down too easily.

Danish football player

I wouldn’t be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Scottish football player

Some of the goals were good, some of the goals were skeptical.

British football commentator

The man [Alex Ferguson] is United; cut him and he will bleed red.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Scottish football player & manager

It’s now 4-3 to Oldham, the goals are going in like dominoes.

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

The keeper was coming out in installments.

English football manager

If you’re a goalkeeper, it doesn’t matter what you save the ball with – if you keep it out, it’s not a goal.

English football player & announcer

I was inbred into the game by my father.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley… unless somebody knocks us out.

English football player & manager

Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby.

Irish television & radio commentator

Mark Ward has only got size 5 boots but he sure packs a hell of a punch with them.

English football player & commentator

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

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result.

British football commentator