Subject: Colemanballs (Page 21)

They [Rosenborg] have won 66 games, and they’ve scored in all of them.

English football player & commentator
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They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat.

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He’s got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.

Irish football player & manager
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We have been saying this, both pre-season and before the season started.

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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
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He just got his body between himself and the goal.

English football player
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Liverpool have come out with all guns flying.

English football player
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Everything in our favor was against us.

Irish football player & manager
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I'm afraid that Francis this season has been suffering from a panacea of injury.

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Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

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I’m not going to pick out anyone in particular, but Jay Jay Okocha should not be captain of a soccer club.

English football player
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They’re the second best team in the world, and there’s no higher praise than that.

English football player & manager
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Obviously for Scunthorpe it would be a nice scalp to put Wimbledon on their bottoms.

English soccer player & manager
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And for those of you watching without television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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Jim Rosenthal to an American goalie: So what’s an American doing playing in goal for Millwall.

The goalie’s reply: I’m trying to keep the ball out.

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The managerial vacancy at the club remains vacant.

English football player & analyst
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With eight or ten minutes to go, they were able to bring Nicky Butt back and give him fifteen to twenty minutes.

Irish football player & executive
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If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps [appearances] for England.

English football player
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He’s like all great players – he’s not a great player yet.

English football player
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He’s one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

Scottish football player
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Butcher goes forward as Ipswich throw their last trump card into the fire.

British commentator
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