Subject: Colemanballs (Page 8)

You have to remember some of these guys are playing in front of the live cameras.

British football player & broadcaster

It’s slightly alarming the way Manchester United decapitated against Stuttgart.

English football player & announcer

Korsten is making a meal of it… er… that’s clearly a penalty, yes.

English football player

With eight or ten minutes to go, they were able to bring Nicky Butt back and give him fifteen to twenty minutes.

Irish football player & executive

Runners up at Wembley four times, never bride always the bridegrooms, Leicester.

English football player

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

English football player & announcer

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

When he was dribbling, he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.

British football commentator

One year I played 15 months.

German football player, coach & manager

Fortunately, Paul Scholes’ injury wasn’t as bad as we’d hoped for.

English football player & analyst

Argentina are the second-best team in the world, and there’s no higher praise than that.

English former football player & manager

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


That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Lorimer just turned on a sixpence, kept his head and buried it in the back of the net.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they’re not careful.

English football player & manager

Had we not got that second goal, I think the score might have been different, I’m not sure.

British football commentator

They can’t change any of their players, but they have changed one of their players and that’s the coach.

British football commentator

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

professional football player, coach & executive

The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

English football commentator

We offer no excuses, though the shower of eggs, cans, nuts and bolts throughout the match did not help my team.

Dutch football coach

Allegations are all very well but I would like to know who these alligators are.