Subject: Colemanballs (Page 5)

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

If the goalkeeper wasn’t there, it would’ve been a goal.

English soccer player & manager

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

English former football player & manager

Julian Dicks is everywhere; it’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.

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

English football player & manager

They've been out a long time – credit them for getting back so quickly.

English football player

The first 90 minutes of a football match are the most important.

British football commentator

Whether that was a penalty or not, the referee thought otherwise.

English football player & commentator

The Scots have really got their hands cut out tonight.

English football player

… the Derby fans walking home absolutely silent in their cars.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.

They’ll perhaps finish in the top three; I can’t see them finishing any higher.

English football player, coach & manager

Hoddle hasn’t been the Hoddle we know; neither has Bryan Robson.

English soccer commentator

They [Rosenborg] have won 66 games, and they’ve scored in all of them.

English football player & commentator

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated.

Scottish football club chairman

All of Blackburn’s players got their foots in.

Irish football player, author & broadcaster

The midfield picks itself: Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A.N. Other.

English football player

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

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

Irish football player & manager