Colemanballs: The art of letting the words come out before the brain is engaged, made famous by David Coleman but with very able disciples in Kevin Keegan, Ron Atkinson, Terry Venables....in fact it seems endemic amongst the football fraternity.

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"I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time."
Kevin Keegan

"Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
Radio commentator

"Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I won’t be quitting."
Carlton Palmer

"Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables."
Bobby Robson

"Michael Owen - he's got the legs of a salmon."
Sky TV commentator

"Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well."
Martin Jol

"Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa."
Kevin Keegan

"I don't want to be either partial or impartial."
Frank McLintock

"The lads really ran their socks into the ground."
Alex Ferguson

"Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench."
Mark Hateley

"Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'"
Ron Atkinson

"That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass."
Murdo MacLeod

"The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal."
Martin O’Neill

"The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23."
Kevin Keegan

"If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today."
Dalian Atkinson