Subject: Colemanballs (Page 9)

We offer no excuses, though the shower of eggs, cans, nuts and bolts throughout the match did not help my team.

Dutch football coach

It’s slightly alarming the way Manchester United decapitated against Stuttgart.

English football player & announcer

He never fails to hit the target… but that was a miss.

British football commentator

Derby County’s chickens have literally come home to roost this season.

British football player

Had we not got that second goal, I think the score might have been different, I’m not sure.

British football commentator

Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice.

English football player & manager

McCall is trying to thread a needle through a haystack there.

English football player & commentator

It’s now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday.

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

English football player & announcer

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

English television football commentator

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps [appearances] for England.

English football player

He hit that one like an arrow.


The club has literally exploded.

English football player & television personality

They have got their feet on the ground and if they stay that way they will go places.

British football commentator

The lad got over excited when he saw the whites of the goalposts eyes.

English football player

Bridge has done nothing wrong, but his movement’s not great and his distribution’s been poor.

English football player & manager

But the ball was going all the way, right away, eventually.

Scottish football player

The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

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

English football player & commentator

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Welsh football player & manager

The keeper was coming out in installments.

English football manager