Author: David Pleat

I was inbred into the game by my father.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Statistics are damn lies.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

For such a small man, Maradona gets great elevation on his balls.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Stoichkov is pointing at the bench with his eyes.

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

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.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I’m not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion’s League, but it’s definitely 10 million euros.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

If there are any managers out there with a bottomless pit, I’m sure that they would be interested in these two Russians.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

That would have been the icing on his start.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

He looked like a rabbit with headlights there.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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

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

Oh dear, I forgot to put my watch back to Swiss time.

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

There he goes again, doing doggies.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

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.

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

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