Subject: Colemanballs (Page 8)

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

English football player

This evening is a very different evening from the morning we had this morning.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He’s the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.

British football commentator

The boys feet have been up in the clouds since the win.

English rugby player & manager

They’ve taken the horns by the scruff of the neck.

English football player & analyst

£5.3 million is a large loaf to be throwing away before a ball's been kicked.

English football player

And the Bulgarians are doing all they can here to waste every last inch of time in this game.

They’ve tasted the other side of the coin on so many occasions.

Irish football player & broadcaster

It’s like a toaster, the ref’s shirt pocket… every time there’s a tackle, up pops a yellow card; I’m talking metaphysically now of course.

English former football player & manager

It was a good match, which could have gone either way and very nearly did.

Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins.

English football player & commentator

As you know, the result for City is not as bad as it sounds on paper.

I’d like to see him scoring two or more goals in games which United win 1-0.

British sports journalist

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

Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership; there’s no denying that.

English football player & announcer

The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

English television football commentator

So that’s 1-0, sounds like the score at Boundary Park where of course its’ 2-2.

sports announcer

He had all the time in the world to kill a few seconds.

Australian football player

The Dutch manager told them in the dressing gown at half-time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Scotland don’t have to score tonight, but they do have to win.

Scottish football player & manager

And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren’t ever in it anyway.

English television football commentator