Author: David Pleat

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

There’s Jermaine Defoe, checking the weather on his phone no doubt… he’s a lovely boy.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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

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

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.

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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.

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That would have been the icing on his start.

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Preki quite literally only has the one foot.

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I’ve never known a Groundhog Day like this and I’ll have to go and see the film to find out what it’s all about.

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

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Here we see Tevez’s little curly one.

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A game is not won until it is lost.

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I’ve seen some players with very big feet, and some with very small feet.

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

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He looked like a rabbit with headlights there.

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I was inbred into the game by my father.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Marseille needed to score first, and that never looked likely once Liverpool had taken the lead.

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Our central defenders, Doherty and Anthony Gardner, were fantastic and I told them that when they go to bed tonight they should think of each other.

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Statistics are damn lies.

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

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