Subject: Colemanballs (Page 9)

The whole team stopped as one man, but Arkwright in particular.

English football player & commentator

I can’t even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine.

English football player & manager

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

British sports commentator

Women’s soccer does have its knockers.

sports broadcaster

A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve.


Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball.

Scottish football player

The tackles are coming in thick and thin.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

He (Stephen Pressley) might play better if he shaves that beard.

Scottish football player & analyst

He’s 31 this year – last year he was 30.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball… they must have seen something that nobody else did.

British sports commentator

He hit the post, and after the game people are going to say, well, he hit the post.

English football player

And with 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.

English sports commentator

Notting Forest are having a bad run; they’ve lost six matches in a row now without winning.

The late start is due to the time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Wayne Rooney really has a man’s body on a teenager’s head.

Irish football player

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps [appearances] for England.

English football player

And Michael Schumacher just stood on his seat and pulled out something special.

British auto racer

This Sport is Stupid Anyway – USA Out of World Cup

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

Scottish football player & broadcaster

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post.

English football commentator

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

English football player