Colemanballs

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 14 Nov 2006, 20:02

A few of my favourites:

"Tell the Kraut to get his ass up front. We don't pay a million for a guy to hang around in defence."
NY Cosmos executive, on Beckenbauer's positioning

"If we played like that every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent"
Bryan Robson, Man U, 1990.

"That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on."
John Lambie, Partick Thistle manager, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was.

"They (Rosenborg) have won 66 games, and they've scored in all of them."
BRIAN MOORE, ITV

"We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps."
BRUCE RIOCH, ITV

"....and the news from Guadalajara where the temperature is 96 degrees, is that Falcao is warming up."
BRIAN MOORE

"If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again."
TERRY VENABLES

"I would also think that the action replay showed it to be worse than it actually was."
RON ATKINSON

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."
DAVID ACFIELD

"What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio"
Gerry Francis

"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel"
Stuart Pearce (1992)

"Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales" (Ron Greenwood)

That's inches away from being millimetre perfect" (Ted Lowe)

"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right" (Marlon Starling)

"I can't tell who's leading - It's either Oxford or Cambridge" (John Snagge - Boat Race)

"The Queen's Park Oval, exactly as its name suggests - absolutely round." (Tony Crozier)

"There's going to be a real ding-dong when the bell goes." (David Coleman)

"There is Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people" (David Coleman)

"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical" (Murray Walker)

"For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip"
John Motson - BBC TV

"Ah! isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew"
(Harry Carpenter - BBC TV Boat Race 1977)

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Nov 2006, 21:31

I love those. It is my favourite feature in Private Eye.

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 15 Nov 2006, 01:09

I still fall about laughing at the cricketting classic ... "The batsman's Holden, the bowler's Willey!"

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 15 Nov 2006, 22:15

It's hard to beat Murray Walker's unique identical cars.