Subject: Colemanballs (Page 12)

At least it was a victory and at least we won.

English football player

I’d love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time; and not for the reasons that you’re thinking of Clive.

English former football player & manager

To me personally, it's nothing personal to me.

English soccer commentator

At 23, he ought to be around until 2006, if he can keep his head.

English football player & manager

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

professional football player, coach & executive

He just got his body between himself and the goal.

English football player

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

Spurs, one of the in-form teams of the moment with successive wins are almost as impressive as Queens Park Rangers with five.

British football player

There was a paradox of air in the town when we arrived in Watfor this afternoon.

I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy.

English football player & manager

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Football games turn on things that are done by players.

Scottish football player

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win.

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

He’s very quick for a man of his age. I suppose you’d call him ageless. He’s 33 or 34.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I felt a lump in my mouth as the ball went in.

English football player & manager

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

British sports journalist

He’s very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

British football commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

British football player

Roy Evans bleeds red blood.

English football player & manager