Subject: Colemanballs (Page 31)

There’s Jermaine Defoe, checking the weather on his phone no doubt… he’s a lovely boy.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

The goals made such a difference to the way this game went.

English television football commentator

Simon Davies has had a few injuries; maybe he wasn’t fully foot.

English football player & analyst

And he missed the goal by literally a million miles.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He’s even smaller in real life than he is on the track.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Marseille needed to score first, and that never looked likely once Liverpool had taken the lead.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

He’s like all great players – he’s not a great player yet.

English football player

1-1 is probably a fair reflection of the score at half-time.

Irish football player & manager

Mirandinha will have more shots this afternoon than both sides put together.

British football commentator

The ball could have gone anywhere and almost did.

English professional football player & commentator

Romania are more Portuguese than German.

English football player & commentator

It’s real end-to-end stuff, but unfortunately it’s all up at Forest’s end.

English football player & commentator

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I’ve had 14 bookings this season – 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable.

English football player

It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it worked.

He [David Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don’t have nowadays.

professional football player, coach & executive

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

English football player

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

English football player & manager

If we can play like that every week, we’ll get some level of consistency.

Scottish football player & manager

Gary Neville was palpable for the second goal.

English football player & announcer

If you are in the six-yard box, standing in an offside position, then you are offside.