Priceless football bloopers.
- "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 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)
- "I never make predictions, and I never will."
(PAUL GASCOIGNE)
- "If history is going to repeat itself I should
think we can expect the same thing again."
(TERRY VENABLES)
- "Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh
pair of legs up his sleeve."
(JOHN GREIG)
- "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)
- "The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour."
(JOHN MOTSON)
- "Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and
I'm sure today's won't be any different."
(TREVOR BROOKING)
- "You have got to miss them to score sometimes."
(DAVE BASSETT)
- "A contract on a piece of paper, saying you
want to leave, is like a piece of paper saying you want to leave."
(JOHN HOLLINS)
- "And I honestly believe we can go all the way
to Wembley. . . unless somebody knocks us out."
(DAVE BASSETT)
- "Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some
fresh legs on."
(KEVIN KEEGAN)
- "What makes this game so delightful is that
when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal."
(JIMMY HILL)
- "That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have
had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and
scored twice."
(TREVOR BROOKING)
- "...and so they have not been able to improve
their 100% record."
(SPORTS ROUNDUP)
- "In terms of the Richter Scale this defeat was
a force eight gale."
(JOHN LYALL)
- "In comparison, there's no comparison."
(RON GREENWOOD)
- "I would also think that the action replay
showed it to be worse than it actually was."
(RON ATKINSON)
- "Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last
five wins."
(BRIAN MOORE)
- "I'm going to make a prediction - it could go
either way."
(RON ATKINSON)
- "And with 4 minutes gone, the score is already
0-0."
(IAN DARK)
- "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)
- "If we played like this every week, we wouldn't
be so inconsistant"
(BRYAN ROBSON)
- "If there weren't such a thing as football,
we'd all be frustrated footballers."
(MICK LYONS)
- "They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Highway
and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit
different."
(KEVIN KEEGAN)
- "Glen Hoddle hasn't been the Hoddle we know.
Neither has Bryan Robson."
(RON GREENWOOD)
- "The minute's silence was immaculate, I have
never heard a minute's silence like that."
(GLENN HODDLE)
- Jimmy Hill: "Don't sit on the fence Terry, what
chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?"
Terry Venables: "I think it's fifty - fifty."