Subject: Colemanballs (Page 33)

He’s a two-legged tripod, if you know what I mean.

British football commentator
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He’s on the lips of every team in world football.


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If you’re a goalkeeper, it doesn’t matter what you save the ball with – if you keep it out, it’s not a goal.

English football player & announcer
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The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got.

English football player
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The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

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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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One moment I’m playing soccer and the next – whack – I wake up in hospital unconscious.

Scottish football player & broadcaster
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Whelan was in the position he was, exactly.

English football player & manager
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If there weren’t such a thing as football, we’d all be frustrated footballers.

English football player & manager
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Johnson has reveled in the ‘hole’ behind Dwight Yorke.

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Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment – exactly the position he is at his most menacing.

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Gary Neville was palpable for the second goal.

English football player & announcer
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It was a fair decision – the penalty – even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

English football player
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Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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You’re always going to be struggling if you haven’t got a left foot.

English football player & analyst
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It’s like a toaster, the ref’s shirt pocket… every time there’s a tackle, up pops a yellow card; I’m talking metaphysically now of course.

English former football player & manager
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Most of the people who can remember when we were a great club are dead.

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Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

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

English football player
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We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game.

British football commentator
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Ian Rush, deadly ten times out of ten, but that wasn't one of them.

English football player
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