Author: David Pleat Page 2

He hits it into the corner of the net as straight as a nut.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some. Or occasionally lose.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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

I don’t know if that was a good bad one or a bad good one.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

He looked like a rabbit with headlights there.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them; but they may draw some… or occasionally lose.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Stoichkov is pointing at the bench with his eyes.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn’t always get picked.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

That would have been the icing on his start.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Moutinho using his weight there – all 5’ 7” of it.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

There’s Thierry Henry, exploding like the French train that he is.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who’s facing him.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I feel like a drunken man who doesn’t have a drink.

English football player, manager & sports commentator