Subject: Colemanballs (Page 32)

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat.

Steve Hodge has been unfit for two weeks, well, no, for 14 days.

British football commentator

Apart from their goals, Norway hasn’t scored.

English football player & manager

Oh, he had an eternity to play that ball, but he took too long over it.

English football commentator

Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this Cup; the last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs.

English football commentator

I do want to play the long ball and I do not want to play the short ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

British football commentator

We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half..

English football player & manager

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air.

Scottish football player

Some time in the 90 minutes they are going to have to win the game.

English football player & analyst

Wallace, moving forward, his red hair always in the action.

English football player

We have been saying this, both pre-season and before the season started.

Scotland don’t have to score tonight, but they do have to win.

Scottish football player & manager

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he’s 23!

English football player & manager

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

Neil Baker is standing on the touchline with his hands in his tracksuit bottoms scratching his head.

English football player & commentator

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

There’s Bergkamp standing on the halfway line, with his hands on his hips, flailing his arms about.

English football player & announcer

Most of the people who can remember when we were a great club are dead.

He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics so he’s used to being out in front.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Fiorentina start the second half attacking their fans; just the way they like things.

England football player

Even when he’s changed the system from the 4-3-3 to the 4-3-2, he’s used the same players.