Subject: Colemanballs (Page 4)

Johnson has reveled in the 'hole' behind Dwight Yorke

English former football player & manager

I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania.

English soccer commentator

It’s the end of season curtain raiser.

English football player & manager

The acoustics seem to get louder.

British football announcer

It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through.

professional football player, coach & executive

I wouldn’t be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Scottish football player

There’s going to be four or five teams battling for the top six spots.

English football player

Souness' football brain working at a hundred miles an hour there.

English football player & commentator

What will you do when you leave soccer, Jack – will you stay in soccer?

He’s got his hands on his knees and holds his head in despair.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I watched the game, and I saw an awful lot of it.

British football player

Venison and Butcher are as brave as two peas in a pod.

British football commentator

And Seamen is all over the ball inside the box.

I’m not superstitious or anything like that, but I’ll just hope we’ll play our best and put it in the lap of the gods.

Irish football player & manager

If there are any managers out there with a bottomless pit, I’m sure that they would be interested in these two Russians.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.


I was here at Maine Road when City lost 4-0 to Wimbledon, but they could have been 2-0 up after five minutes, and if they had been, the final score might just have been different.

Irish football player

Football’s football: If that weren’t the case it wouldn’t be the game that it is.

English football player

Roy Keane didn’t go through the book with a fine toothbrush.

English football player & analyst

I'm going to make a prediction – it could go either way.

English former football player & manager

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

British football commentator