Subject: Colemanballs (Page 34)

Spurs, one of the in-form teams of the moment with successive wins are almost as impressive as Queens Park Rangers with five.

British football player
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If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that’s backwards.

English football player
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We go into the second half with United 1-0 up, so the game is perfectly balanced.

English football player
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The Croatians don’t play well without the ball.

English football player & commentator
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There are so many teams now down at the bottom of the Third Division; the FA really has to do something about it.

Scottish football player
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He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum.

British sports commentator
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Romania are more Portuguese than German.

English football player & commentator
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The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Activities Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

I don't hold water with that theory.

English soccer commentator
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At 23, he ought to be around until 2006, if he can keep his head.

English football player & manager
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If we played like that every week, we wouldn’t be so inconsistent.

English football player & manager
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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
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Lorimer just turned on a sixpence, kept his head and buried it in the back of the net.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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They’ve taken the horns by the scruff of the neck.

English football player & analyst
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I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is! 

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Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

British cricketer & television commentator
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Tottenham have impressed me; they haven’t thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

English football player
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It's so vital if you can win the game one-nil rather than lose it one-nil.

English football player & manager
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We had a lovely meal. Lovely. We had a big steak with all the tarnishings.

Colemanballs Misspokements

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball… they must have seen something that nobody else did.

British sports commentator
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