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“The new West Stand casts a giant shadow over the entire pitch, even on a sunny day.”
(CHRIS JONES, Evening Standard)

“What will you do when you leave football, Jack — will you stay in football?”
(STUART HALL, Radio 5 Live)

“Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.”
(RAY WILKINS, speaking on BBC1)

“I’ve got a gut feeling in my stomach…”
(ALAN SUGAR, speaking on BBC1)

“I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.”
(RON AKTINSON in a TV interview)

“An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal.”
(DAVE BASSETT, speaking on Sky Sports)

“Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.”
(PETER WITHE, speaking on Radio 5 Live)

“You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.”
(ALAN GREEN, speaking on Radio 5 Live)

“What’s it like being in Bethlehem, the place where Christmas began? I suppose it’s like seeing Ian Wright at Arsenal….”
(SIMON FANSHAWE, speaking on Talk Radio)

“And we all know that in football if you stand still you go backwards…”
(PETER REID, Tyne Tees Sport Special)

“I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs…”
(ANDY GRAY, Sky Sports)

“The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost’s eyes.”
(STEVE COPPELL, Radio 5 Live)

“They [Rosenborg] have won 66 games, and they’ve scored in all of them.”
(BRIAN MOORE, ITV)

“If you can’t stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen.”
(TERRY VENABLES, Capital Gold)

“The lads really ran their socks into the ground.”
(ALEX FERGUSON)

“He [Brian Laudrup] wasn’t just facing one defender — he was facing one at the front and one at the back as well.”
(TREVOR STEVEN, STV)

“It’s now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday.”
(Radio 5 Live)

“…but Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals.”
(TONY GUBBA, BBC Match of the Day)

“…an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.”
(GARY LINEKER, BBC)

“We say ‘educated left foot’… of course, there are many players with educated right foots.”
(RON JONES, Radio 5 Live)

“That’s twice now he [Terry Phelan] has got between himself and the goal.”
(BRIAN MARWOOD, Radio 5 Live)

“Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him…”
(KEVIN KEEGAN)

“Football today, it’s like a game of chess. It’s all about money.”
(NEWCASTLE UNITED FAN, Radio 5 Live)

“Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice.”
(KEVIN KEEGAN, Radio 5 Live)

“We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps.”
(BRUCE RIOCH, ITV)

“And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren’t ever in it anyway.”
(JOHN MOTSON, BBC)

“… and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a ball of string…”
(IAN DARKE, Radio 5)

“I never make predictions and I never will.”
(PAUL GASCOIGNE)

“And there’s Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.”
(JIMMY HILL)

“….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’m not a believer in luck….. but I do believe you need it.”
(ALAN BALL)

“The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.”
(MIKE INGHAM)

“I think that was a moment of cool panic there.”
(RON ATKINSON)

“Beckenbauer really has gambled all his eggs.”
(RON ATKINSON)

“Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh pair of legs up his sleeve.”
(JOHN GREIG)

“I spent four indifferent years at Goodison Park, but they were great years.”
(MARTIN HODGE)

“Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.”
(JAMES SANDERSON)

“They have missed so many chances they must be wringing their heads in shame.”
(RON GREENWOOD)

“It’s headed away by John Clark, using his head.”
(DEREK RAE)

“Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this Cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs side.”
(MIKE INGHAM)