Subject: Colemanballs (Page 19)

The Bulgarian team are here with a relatively 'old' squad. They impressed at USA in '94, but, well, they're four years older now… most of them.

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

Scottish football player & manager

Allegations are all very well but I would like to know who these alligators are.

It’s the end of season curtain raiser.

English football player & manager

I never comment on referees and I’m not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

English former football player & manager

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I’m sure today’s won’t be any different.

English football player & analyst

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

A deflection – that’s what changed the course of the ball.

Irish football player

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

English football player & manager

I watched the game, and I saw an awful lot of it.

British football player

It feels like winning the cup final, if that’s what it feels like.

English football player & manager

Most of the players will be wearing rubbers tonight.

English football player & sportscaster

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

English former football player & manager

Wayne Clarke, one of the famous Clarke familiy, and he's one of them, of course.

English football player & commentator

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

English football player

Even if you tap it in from one yard it counts in the record books as a goal, unlike the chances you miss.

professional football player, coach & executive

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won’t lay any eggs in the basket.

British football commentator

He just can’t believe what isn’t happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

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

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing'.

English football player

That's the fastest time ever run – but it's not as fast as the world record.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator