Author: David Pleat

I’ve never known a Groundhog Day like this and I’ll have to go and see the film to find out what it’s all about.

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Statistics are damn lies.

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For such a small man, Maradona gets great elevation on his balls.

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Moutinho using his weight there – all 5’ 7” of it.

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I was inbred into the game by my father.

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There he goes again, doing doggies.

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I feel like a drunken man who doesn’t have a drink.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who’s facing him.

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Preki quite literally only has the one foot.

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Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them; but they may draw some… or occasionally lose.

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That would have been the icing on his start.

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We are now in the middle of the center of the first half.

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Here we see Tevez’s little curly one.

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I’ve just noticed something interesting; the left and right backs have both got long sleeve shirts on.

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Marseille needed to score first, and that never looked likely once Liverpool had taken the lead.

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Our central defenders, Doherty and Anthony Gardner, were fantastic and I told them that when they go to bed tonight they should think of each other.

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What does it feel like being rammed up the backside by Barrichello?

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If United get through, they’ll play Chelsea or Liverpool, in an all-Premiership tie, which is also an all-English tie, and also an all-British tie.

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Stoichkov is pointing at the bench with his eyes.

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He wasn’t really trying to score with that shot.

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There’s Thierry Henry, exploding like the French train that he is.

English football player, manager & sports commentator