Subject: Colemanballs (Page 31)

Even when he’s changed the system from the 4-3-3 to the 4-3-2, he’s used the same players.


Wayne Clarke, one of the famous Clarke familiy, and he's one of them, of course.

English football player & commentator

Most of the people who can remember when we were a great club are dead.

The World Cup is every four years, so it’s going to be a perennial problem.

English football player & sportscaster

Apart from their goals, Norway wouldn’t have scored.

English football player & manager

An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal.

English soccer player & manager

He’s caused Chelsea no amount of problems.

English football player & manager

He just can't believe what isn't happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Yes, Woodcock would have scored, but his shot was just too perfect

English former football player & manager

He tried out this new formation, 4-3-1-2… bit like the Christmas Tree formation.

English football player & announcer

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

England football player

One moment I’m playing soccer and the next – whack – I wake up in hospital unconscious.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

English football player & announcer

Ilie has a deception of pace.

English football player & manager

The number of chances they had before the goal they missed..

English football player & announcer

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

Irish television & radio commentator

I’d love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time; and not for the reasons that you’re thinking of Clive.

English former football player & manager

They’ve probably played better than they’ve ever done for a few weeks.

British football commentator

A deflection – that’s what changed the course of the ball.

Irish football player

We are now in the middle of the center of the first half.

English football player, manager & sports commentator