Subject: Colemanballs (Page 22)

Tottenham have impressed me; they haven’t thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

English football player

He wasn’t really trying to score with that shot.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

You certainly wouldn’t bet against him not converting that chance.

English professional football player & commentator

He tried out this new formation, 4-3-1-2… bit like the Christmas Tree formation.

English football player & announcer

We offer no excuses, though the shower of eggs, cans, nuts and bolts throughout the match did not help my team.

Dutch football coach

If England had scored in the first half, I think the young legs would have found younger hearts inside them.

English football player & manager

Martin Keown is up everybody’s backsides.

English football player & analyst

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

Marseille needed to score first, and that never looked likely once Liverpool had taken the lead.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose.

Irish television & radio commentator

It's always very satisfying to beat Arsenal, as indeed Arsenal would admit.

English football player

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.

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball… they must have seen something that nobody else did.

British sports commentator

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that’s backwards.

English football player

He’s missing the absence of Dennis [Bergkamp].

English professional football player & commentator

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that.

English soccer commentator

And the line up for the final of the Women’s 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

In a year’s time, he’s a year older.

British football commentator

Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.

professional football player, coach & executive

The man [Alex Ferguson] is United; cut him and he will bleed red.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

Now they have got an extra yard of doubtness in their minds.

English football player & commentator