Subject: Colemanballs (Page 31)

Yes, Woodcock would have scored, but his shot was just too perfect

English former football player & manager
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Tottenham have impressed me; they haven’t thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

English football player
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We were a little bit outnumbered there, it was two against two.

Scottish football player
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The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Welsh football player & manager
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He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics so he’s used to being out in front.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

English former football player & manager
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They only count when they go in the goal.

English football player & commentator
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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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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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Alex Ferguson is the best manager I’ve ever had at this level. Well, he’s the only manager I’ve actually had at this level. But he’s the best manager I’ve ever had.

professional football player
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We’re flying on the Concorde; that’ll shorten the distance — that’s self-explanatory.

British football commentator
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With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

English football player & manager
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It was that game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

English soccer commentator
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To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

Dutch football player & manager
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A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he’s just as good as everybody else.

(1928 – 2002) Irish playwright, novelist & essayist
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Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

British sports commentator
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He is accelerating all the time; the last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before that in 62.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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Mirandinha will have more shots this afternoon than both sides put together.

British football commentator
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Germany are a very difficult team to play… they had 11 internationals out there today.

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

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

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