Subject: Colemanballs (Page 19)

So it means that, mathematically, Southampton have 58 points.

English football player

The managerial vacancy at the club remains vacant.

English football player & analyst

Even when you’re dead you shouldn’t lie down and let yourself be buried.

English football player & manager

Ian St John to Greaves: Is he speaking to you yet?
Greaves: Not yet, but I hope to be incommunicado with him in a very short space of time.

English football player

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

British sports commentator

Ilie has a deception of pace.

English football player & manager

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

English football player & manager

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

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Once he’s got confidence in his veins, he’s a real threat.

Irish football player & broadcaster

We have been saying this, both pre-season and before the season started.

Socrates, so named because his father was interested in Greek mythology.

And Seamen is all over the ball inside the box.

Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United’s attacks; but this rabbit comes with a suit of armor in the shape of two precious away goals.

Irish sportscaster

He’s a two-legged tripod, if you know what I mean.

British football commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren’t ever in it anyway.

English television football commentator

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

Brazil, the favorites – if they are the favorites, which they are…

English football player & manager

Signori has all the tricks up his book.

England football player

Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match.

English football player & television personality