Subject: Colemanballs (Page 21)

Well… if the ball had gone in the net… that would have been a goal.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball.

Scottish football player

We have one David Beckham playing abroad and that would be two.

professional football player, coach & executive

And Cristiano Ronaldo has hit the ball with every inch of his body weight!

That would have been the icing on his start.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is! 

Mirandinha will have more shots this afternoon than both sides put together.

British football commentator

At the end of the day, the team with the most points are champions, apart from when it goes to goal difference.

English football player & commentator

It’s a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

And there’s the unmistakable figure of Joe Mercer… or is it Lester Piggott.

British horse racing commentator

Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

There’s going to be four or five teams battling for the top six spots.

English football player

Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him.

One moment I’m playing soccer and the next – whack – I wake up in hospital unconscious.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

They only count when they go in the goal.

English football player & commentator

And I honestly believe that we can go all the way to Wembley… unless somebody knocks us out.

English soccer player & manager

Oh dear, his right leg collided with himself there.

English football player & commentator

Although we are playing Russian Roulette we are obviously playing Catch-22 at the moment and it’s a difficult scenario to get my head round.

If you take away their five goals, there was nothing between the teams.

English football player

My youth coach told me he’d got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don’t want to know, because by the time they’re 18 I’ll be dead.

Irish football player & manager

Hagi could open a tin of beans with his left foot.

English football player