Subject: Colemanballs (Page 7)

He’s one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

Scottish football player
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I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.

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The midfield picks itself: Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A.N. Other.

English football player
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Jim Rosenthal to an American goalie: So what’s an American doing playing in goal for Millwall.

The goalie’s reply: I’m trying to keep the ball out.

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If there’s one thing Gus Uhlenbeek’s got, it’s pace and determination.


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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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And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done.

English football player & manager
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The dice are stacked against them.

Irish football player & manager
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England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

English football player & announcer
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… and it (the ball) just crept on either side of the post.

English football player & commentator
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Look at those olive trees – they’re two hundred years old – from before the time of Christ!

British football commentator
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You’re either very good or very bad, there’s no in between; we were in between.

English football player & sportscaster
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Howard Kahn, a lecturer at Edinburgh’s Heriot Watt University, has studied the matter intently and says he’s figured out why Scottish soccer teams can’t seem to win World Cup and other competitions; they’re not good players.

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We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

English football player & announcer
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The lad got over excited when he saw the whites of the goalposts eyes.

English football player
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Well, I’ve seen some tackles, Jonathan, but that was the ultimatum!

English football player & manager
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Scoring the first goal in soccer is very important, because your opponent is then faced with the task of having to score one to draw level and two to take the lead.

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It was a good match, which could have gone either way and very nearly did.

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One year I played 15 months.

German football player, coach & manager
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He looks as though he’s been playing for England all his international career.

English football player & analyst
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