Subject: Colemanballs (Page 22)

Unfortunately, we don’t get a second chance; we’ve already played them twice.

English football player & analyst

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

I can’t promise anything but I can promise 100%.

English football player

He’s got a brain under his hair.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

The good news for Nigeria is that they’re two-nil down very early in the game.

English football player & manager

With the very last kick of the game Macdonald scored with a header.


As Phil DeGlenville said, each game is unique, and this one is no different to any other.

English football director

If England get a point, it will be a point gained as opposed to two points lost.

English football player & announcer

And Arsenal [English Soccer Club] now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds.

English football player

The problems at Wimbledon seem to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

Irish football player & manager

At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match; it was the other three per cent that cost us.

Dutch football player & manager

The gelling period has just started to knit.

England football player

The Blackburn crowd have been saturated by fifty thousand Newcastle fans.

There’s no way that Ryan Giggs is another George Best… he’s another Ryan Giggs.

Scottish football player

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

It’s now 4-3 to Oldham, the goals are going in like dominoes.

Everyone’s got tough games coming up. Manchester United have got Arsenal, Arsenal have got Manchester United and Leeds have got Leeds.

British football commentator

Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

English soccer commentator

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

English football player

I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

(1940 – ) Brazilian football (soccer) player