"For Tony Adams to admit he was an alcoholic took a lot of bottle" - Ian
Wright
"He's the headstone of English football" - Graham Beecroft
"Solskjaer hit that with his unpopular left foot" - Lawrie Sanchez
"That was cool panic from Wes Brown there" - Ron Atkinson
"They're playing in an Arctic monsoon" - Terry Butcher
"Paul Scoles is literally on another planet" - Kieron Dyer
"Nothing can expand without it growing" - Mike Parry
"At 38, Costacurta is as young as anyone" - Peter Drury
"He's not Thierry Henry, but not many people are" - Martin Tyler
"There are a lot of tired legs wearing Tottenham shirts" - Andy Gray
"Cisse will either come on right away or immediately" - Gary McAllister
"There's what they call a good-feel factor about White Hart Lane these days"
- Chris Hughton
"We had two shots cleared off the line by the post" - Craig Brown
"As the law demands, Paul Rideout had to go off the pitch to pick up an
injury" - Graham Beecroft
"Henrick Larsson has an uncanny ability to hover above opponents" - Steve
Archibald
"It's not a performance to impress the Puritans" - Martin Tyler
"He favours his left-hand foot" - Chris Waddle
"There's no finer sight in football than when Thierry Henry opens his legs
and just comes on the ball" - Terry Paine
"It's been a great night, at the end of the day" - Andy Gray
"Every team has a blip during the season. Last year Arsenal didn't have one"
- Ray Wilkins
"If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't
want to" - Kevin Keegan
"Porto aren't one of the biggest clubs in Spain" - Graham Beecroft
"Ashley Cole attempts to control the ball and uncontrols it" - Bob Wilson
"Real Madrid had an unconvincing one-nil draw at Mallorca" - Rob Palmer
"To be a good player in the Premiership you have to perform on the pitch, as
it is everywhere" - Kanu
"It's like they say - an elephant never loses it's stripes" - Alvin Martin
"If you read everything you believe" - Malcolm Christie
"He's a minefield of information" - Mike Parry
""If you don't score you are not going to win a match" - Sir Bobby Robson
"Glen Johnson is breathing pretty hard, but I suppose that's his own way of
getting air into his lungs" - Jim Neilly
"If that had gone in, I don't think Van der Sar would have saved it" - Chris
Waddle
"It's interesting that the games in which we've dropped points are those
where we've failed to score" - Sir Alex Ferguson
"It's 0-0 at Craven Cottage and it will stay that way until someone scores" -Setanta
commentator
"In case you're wondering, Jagielka is related to his younger brother at
Sheffield United, Phil" - Kevin Keegan
"It's a Manchester derby in the Youth Cup, and Manchester United are playing
in it" - Rob McCaffrey
Gary Newbon: "David, was Wayne Rooney disappointed to lose his youngest goal
scorer record on Monday to the young Swiss striker?"
David Beckham: "No, but I'm sure it'll just make him even more determined to get
it back against Portugal tonight."
"Danny Cadamarteri was the new Wayne Rooney before Rooney came along." - Alan
Smith
"I'm not trying to defend Wayne Rooney. I'm just making the case for him." -
Andy Townsend
"Johann Vonlathen has scored for Switzerland against France. He's even
younger than Wayne Rooney, which means he's probably going to take Rooney's
record as the youngest scorer in European Championship history." - John Motson
"I'm never one to make excuses, but I couldn't see the ball because the
floodlights were in my eyes." - Damien Duff
"Sir Alex Ferguson IS Manchester United. If you cut him he bleeds red." -
Alan Brazil
"The Nigerians are in real trouble now. They're going to have to pull their
finger out but it is not going to be easy as their backs are against the wall."
- John Salako
"We haven't set Steve Bruce any targets - just to stay up." - Karen Brady
"I don't want to sound homophobic, but I want a Scottish manager." - Pat
Nevin
"What Ron Atkinson said was unforgivable. Although, in time, we should
forgive him." - Mike Parry
"Lee Hendrie is Lee Hendrie and he always will be" - David O'Leary
"I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored
his goal was similar to Matt." - Joe Royle
"Kitson's header was neither a cross or a shot" - Steve Kerr
"Their goal on the stroke of half-time unsettled us and, no matter what you
say during the interval, there's that little bit of toothache in their heads" -
Steve Coppell
"I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man" - Paul
Gascoigne
"Groins have got to be 100% or not at all" - Glenn Hoddle
"Kluivert has back heeled it through his own legs" Rodney Marsh
"It's like the Alamo except for two things - Portsmouth don't have any
bullets or arrows for their bows" - Chris Kamara
"Terrific one-stuff football from Arsenal there" - Marcus Buckland
"I can't fault Mark Palios too highly" - Paul Sturrock
"Michael Owen has scored 158 goals on 267 games for LIverpool - that's almost
one every two games" - Graham Beecroft
"Manchester United's form has been awesome in the last 12 months. They've won
41 of their last 39 games" - Alan Parry
John Champion: "An interesting fact is that of Arsenal's last 56 goals,
Thierry Henry has only scored 12 of them."
Ron Atkinson: "Yeah, but he created the other 40."
"These tournaments only come along every two years, so you can't expect to
win them every year" - Michael Owen
"Wolves have got five games left and I think they can get 18 points from
them" - John Gregory
"Gordon Strachan is keeping his arms close to his chest" - Gary McAllister
"Concentrating on your opponents too much can put you in the wrong frame of
mind mentally" - Zesh Rehman (Fulham)
"Fulham have been slowly sinking to the bottom very very quickly" - Mark
Lawrenson
"It's a case of putting all our eggs into the next 90 minutes" Phil Neal
"Women should be in the kitchen, the discoteque and the boutique, but not in
football" - Ron Atkinson
"He was in a no-win situation, unless he won the match" - John Motson
"You only get one opportunity of an England debut" - Clive Allen
"If we played like this every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent" - Alan
Green
"Kevin Keegan has now tasted the other side of the fence" - David Pleat
"If he gets a yard ahead of himself, nobody will catch him" - Bobby Robson
"The good news for Nigeria is that they are 2-0 down very early in the game"
- Kevin Keegan
"We are just about to enter the biggest period in Palace's immediate past
history" - Iain Dowie
"Ronaldo has the brain of a refrigerator" - Brian Moore
"If you count your chickens before they've hatched, they won't lay an egg" -
Bobby Robson
"It was the first four goals that cost us the game" - Dave Jones
"There will be no siestas in Madrid tonight" - Kevin Keegan
"The team showed good stamina and good vitamins" - Claudio Ranieri
"I'm not a betting man, but I bet Italy win this game" - Graham Taylor
"Scotland are a good team with strong English character" - Ruud Gullitt
"What I said to him at half-time would be unprintable on the radio" - Gerry
Francis
"If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at
the end of the day" - Neville Southall
"I've never wanted to leave Newcastle. I'm here for the rest of my life, and
hopefully after that as well" - Alan Shearer
"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel" - Stuart Pearce
"You've got to believe that you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the
World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out" - Peter Shilton
"I was watching the Blackburn game on television on Sunday when it flashed on
the screen that George Ndah had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My
first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered that he was out there
playing" - Ade Akinbiyi
"If you don't concede any goals you'll win more games than lose" - Wayne
Bridge
"I'm as happy as I can be - but I have been happier" - Ugo Ehiogo
"I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right
sock" - Barry Venison
"Germany are a very difficult team to play.. they had 11 internationals out
there today" - Steve Lomas
"I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league"
- Mark Viduka
"One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best" -
Alan Shearer
"I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for" - Steve
Coppell
"Brian Laudrup wasn't facing just one defender - he was facing one at the
front and one at the back as well" - Trevor Steven
"To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch" - Ruud Gullit
"A contact on a piece of paper, saying you want to leave, is like a piece of
paper saying you want to leave" - John Hollins
"If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same
thing again" - Terry Venables
"He had to cut back inside onto his left because he hasn't got a right foot"
- David Pleat
"Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot" - Ray Wilkins
"Football's not like an electric light. You can't just flick a switch and
change from quick to slow" - John Greig
"Spurs haven't thrown in the towel even though they've been under the gun" -
Bobby Charlton
"Forest scored after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play" - Matt
Lorenzo
" I said to the players before the start, 'Just go out and give it 100 per
cent'...I am not asking for any more than that" - Carlton Palmer
"It's a no win game for us. Although I suppose we can win by winning" - Gary
Doherty
"There's no problem with Darius Vassell and quite simply there wouldn't be a
problem if there was" - Graham Taylor
"Solkjaer never misses the target. That time he hit the post" - Peter
Schmeichel
"We dominated for 75% of the game, but we have to make sure we do that for
the other 15" - Dave Jones
"They haven't lived up to the expectations we expect of them" - George Graham
"That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just
out-and-out retribution" - Joe Royle
"Michael Owen is a parasite in the best possible sense of the word" - Ally
McCoist
"Wayne Bridge is not quick, but is rapid" - David Platt
"I'm just wondering who Michel Owen will pass the captain's handbag to" -
Andy Gray
"Liverpool have lost their last two... and they conceded in both games" -
Jonathan Pearce - Radio 5 live
" I never make forecasts, but whoever wins that
game will win the final" - Ken Bates
"Eighty percent of teams who score first
in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some. Or occasionally lose." -
David Pleat
"In any walk of life, if you get a penalty you expect to score" -
Alan McInally
"Robert Earnshaw has scored goals in the Nationwide. That proves
he's a premiership player" - Chris Kamara
"I'm not trying to make excuses for
David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem" - Kevin Keegan
"Everybody has been trying to put dots on top of Ts and crosses over Is"
- Niall
Quinn
"Wolves beat Palace convincingly without being convincing" - Joe Royle
"The crowd will be looking to Vieri to inspirate them" - Mark Bright
"Real's
second goal made it 3-0" - Des Lynam
"As with every young player these days,
Ronaldo is 18" - Sir Alex Ferguson
"We haven't scored, which means you haven't
got a chance of winning" - Bobby Robson
"We've kicked ourselves in the teeth"
- Kevin Kilbane
"There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from
throwing away the game" - Glenn Hoddle
"Man City's marking was non-extinct
there " - Mark Bright
Mark Bright: "Both of Celtic's scorers are English"
Barry Davies: "I'll have to correct you there, Mark - John Hartson is Welsh"
Mark Bright: "OK -English based"
"We've got the first trophy under the bag" -
Michael Owen
"If Liverpool finish sixth and you get more points than them,
you're looking at finishing fifth. Or even fourth" - George Graham
"From start
to finish we really started the game well" - John Hartson
"Two of Forest's
goals were headers, and one was a header" - Joe Royle
"Ireland will give 99% -
everything they've got" - Mark Lawrenson
"Roberto Carlos is a great bender" -
Ron Atkinson
"He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's
even happened" - Graham Le Saux
"No matter who our opponents are, or who we
are playing against, we want to win the game" - David Beckham
"The Albanians
are penetrating us from all positions" - Niall Quinn
"If you keep putting the
ball in the stands, you're never going to score a goal" -Tony Cottee
"There's
such a fine line between defeat and losing" - Gary Newbon
"People will say
that was typical City, which really annoys me. But that's typical City I
suppose" Kevin Keegan
"Michael Owen is irreplaceable, but Sven has Emile
Heskey, James Beattie, Wayne Rooney and Darius Vassell and whoever he picks can
do the job" - David Platt
"When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities
- or even worse, injuries" - Phil Neal
"Neil Edwards faces a spell on the
side-lines after it was revealed he is suffering injuries to his hands and
groin" - Rochdale website
"They can't change any of their players, but they can
change one of their players. And he's the coach" - Bobby Robson
"Steve
Coppell, you're a big phallus man.. er Palace man" - Richard Keys
"The
header
was cleared off the line by the crossbar" - Simon Brotherton
"We had two
players who didn't want to leave. Though, in saying that, they did" - Terry Venables
"It's what I call training football, it's how they play on the
training pitch. They end standing around playing the ball, it's what I call
standing football" - George Graham
"Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I
won't be quitting" - Carlton Palmer
"Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in
the league and Manchester United are right up there with them" - Craig Bellamy
"You can't wait until you're a goal down at halftime, an away goal at that,
before you throw the gun at them" - John Aldridge
"All of West Ham's away
victories have come on opponent's territory this season" - Marcus Buckland
"Anyone who takes drugs should be hammered" - Andy Gray
"There's a lot of
football being played out there today" - Martin Tyler
"He'll probably wake up
having sleepless nights about that one" - Alan Parry
"Chris Porter scored his
first league goal last week, and he's done the same this week" - Jeff Stelling
"It's a great honour... and it's an honour to be with Her Majesty,
obviously...I'm very honoured to be given this honour" - David Beckham
"When I
talk to the players I speak first of all in English, then I say "sorry, now I
will speak in Spanish, or Italian". Then on the touchline I speak another
language so the other manager doesn't understand what I am saying" - Claudio
Ranieri
"I'd love to be a fly on the Panathinaikos wall, if I could speak
Greek" - Alan Smith
"In any walk of life, if you put quality balls into the
box you're going to cause problems" - Ray Wilkins
"This is just a fucking shit
game between two shit teams" - BBC London commentator Tom Watt, with microphone
not quite switched off, on Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
"We don't want to put
a timescale on Tony Gardner's injury. He could be back in four weeks, but we'll
re-assess in three weeks time" - Glenn Hoddle
"That could have been his second
yellow card... if he'd already got his first one, of course" - Trevor Brooking
"He's good at that, David Beckham - he's good at kicking the ball" - Jimmy Armfield
"It was a little bit of a surprise when John Gorman was appointed,
although nothing really surprises me in football anymore" - Terry Gibson
"Bolton made an error by mistake" - Alan Gowling, GMR Radio
"I'd rather play
in front of a full house than an empty crowd" - Johnny Giles
"There's no in
between - you're either good or bad. We were in between" - Gary Lineker
"Leeds
has been my home for a long time, even though I live in Middlesbrough" -
Jonathan Woodgate
"I couldn't settle in Italy, it was like living in a foreign
country" - Ian Rush
"Sometimes in football you have to score goals" - Thierry
Henry
"It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it
worked" - Richard Rufus
"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win" -
Vinnie Jones
"Too many players are trying to score or create a goal" - Gerard Houllier
"I was alone up front, with Danny Murphy playing between me, myself
and the midfield" - Michael Owen
"Djimi Traore had to adapt to the English
game and he did that by going out on loan to Lens last season" - Ian Rush
"Phil Thompson is Liverpool through and through. He's got red blood running
through his veins" - six-o-six caller
"You cannot say my team aren't winners.
They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three
years" - Gerard Houllier
"Gerard Houllier will be thinking that they could
have won this 2-2" - Ron Atkinson
"I've a good record here - played one, won
one - hopefully it will be the same after Saturday" - Steven Gerrard
"Once
Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem" - Howard Wilkinson
"We all
know in football that if you stand still you go backwards" - Peter Reid
"We're
down to the bare knuckles" - George Graham
"If you can't stand the heat in the
dressing room, get out of the kitchen" - Terry Venables
"Magnifico, or
whatever they say in Paris" - Peter Reid
"I'm a firm believer that if the
other side scores first you have to score twice to win" - Howard Wilkinson
"I
was a young lad when I was growing up" - David O'Leary
"James Beattie is
learning how to pull off defenders" - Peter Reid
"The one thing I didn't
expect is the way we didn't play" - George Graham
"Achilles tendon injuries
are a pain in the butt" - David O'Leary
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