Author: David Pleat

I was inbred into the game by my father.

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He looked like a rabbit with headlights there.

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Misspokements

Oh dear, I forgot to put my watch back to Swiss time.

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Misspokements

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

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

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Stoichkov is pointing at the bench with his eyes.

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

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I’m not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion’s League, but it’s definitely 10 million euros.

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He’s very quick for a man of his age. I suppose you’d call him ageless. He’s 33 or 34.

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

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I don’t know if that was a good bad one or a bad good one.

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He hits it into the corner of the net as straight as a nut.

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There he goes again, doing doggies.

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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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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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That would have been the icing on his start.

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There’s Jermaine Defoe, checking the weather on his phone no doubt… he’s a lovely boy.

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

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