| 'It's a case of him (Eric Cantona) losing les marbles.' - GARY LINEKER 'Hagi has got a left foot like Brian Lara's bat' - DON HOWE 'Hagi could open a tin of beans with his left foot' - RAY CLEMENCE 'There's no width on the wings.' - ANDY GRAY 'We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half' - DAVID PLEAT 'The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.' - STEVE COPPELL 'To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.' - RUUD GULLIT 'The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.You don't know if they're going to turn up for training.I'm being serious.' - DON HOWE 'He's chanced his arm with his left foot.' - TREVOR BROOKING 'They've come out at half time and gone bang.' - RON ATKINSON 'It's the end of season curtain raiser' - PETER WHITE 'They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.' - JIMMY HILL 'Signori has all the tricks up his book.' - RAY WILKINS 'It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.' - DENIS LAW 'I'd say he's the best in Europe, if you put me on the fence.' - BOBBY ROBSON 'Glenn is putting his head in the frying pan.' - OSSIE ARDILES 'We're not used to weather in June in this country.' - JIMMY HILL 'England now have three fresh men,with three fresh legs.' - JIMMY HILL 'A game is not won until it is lost.' - DAVID PLEAT 'Wimbledon are putting balls into the blender.' - RODNEY MARSH 'Di Matteo's taken to playing in midfield like a duck out of water.' - PETER OSGOOD 'Poor Miklosko. Hasn't had to make a save yet he's let three goals in.' - TREVOR FRANCIS 'There's Bergkamp standing on the halfway line, with his hands on his hips, flailing his arms about.' - JOHN SCALES 'If England get a point, it will be a point gained as opposed to two points lost.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.' - TREVOR BROOKING '[Phil Neville] was treading on dangerous water there...' - RON ATKINSON 'Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.' - PETER WITHE 'That's twice now he [Terry Phelan] has got between himself and the goal.' - BRIAN MARWOOD 'Stoichkov is pointing at the bench with his eyes.' - DAVID PLEAT 'I think it's that lack of width with his height.' - TREVOR BROOKING 'I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won...' - RON ATKINSON 'If you just came into the room and didn't know who was who you'd obviously say Newcastle looked the most likely to score.' - TERRY PAINE 'If there's a weakness in Chelsea's defence, it's in their defence.' - Radio 5 'I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.' - RON ATKINSON 'Mirandinha will have more shots this afternoon than both sides put together.' - MALCOLM MACDONALD 'The Arsenal defence is skating close to the wind.' - JACK CHARLTON 'I think that was a moment of cool panic there.' - RON ATKINSON 'Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.' - RON ATKINSON 'He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.' - BOBBY ROBSON 'He has a great understanding of where the goalkeeper is in relationship to the goal.' - DAVID PLEAT 'With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes' - JIMMY ARMFIELD 'Brazil, the favourites - if they are the favourites, which they are...' - BRIAN CLOUGH 'If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.' - TERRY VENABLES 'They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.' - TERRY VENABLES 'He has got perfect control over the ball right up to the minute he lets it go.' - PETER WALKER 'They're all on top of their game - fans and players alike.' - DAVID FAIRCLOUGH 'They've missed so many chances they must be wringing their heads in shame.' - RON GREENWOOD 'If you're going to score one goal or less, you're not going to get your victories.' - TREVOR BROOKING 'Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.' - TREVOR BROOKING '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 'Fortunately, Paul Scholes' injury wasn't as bad as we'd hoped for.' - TREVOR BROOKING 'It's end to end stuff, but from side to side' - TREVOR BROOKING '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 'He'll be giving everything, but he hasn't got everything to give.' - IAN ST JOHN 'Football's football: If that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is.' - GARTH CROOKS 'And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.' - JIMMY HILL 'It's one of the greatest goals ever, but I'm surprised that people are talking about it being the goal of the season.' - ANDY GRAY 'I think that their young legs would have found younger hearts inside them.' - JIMMY ARMFIELD 'He's got a brain under his hair.' - DAVID PLEAT 'If there are any managers out there with a bottomless pit, I'm sure that they would be interested in these two Russians.' - DAVID PLEAT 'Ronaldo is always very close to being onside or offside' - RAY WILKINS 'If Glenn Hoddle said one word to his team at half time, it was concentration and focus.' - RON ATKINSON 'Tottenham have impressed me : they haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.' - BOBBY ROBSON 'There's no way that Ryan Giggs is another George Best : he's another Ryan Giggs.' - DENIS LAW 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' 'They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.' - RON ATKINSON 'The Brazilians aren't as good as they used to be, or as they are now.' - KENNY DALGLISH 'He hit the post, and after the game people are going to say, well,he hit the post.' - JIMMY GREAVES 'It may have been going wide, but nevertheless it was a great shot on target.' - TERRY VENABLES 'Woodcock would have scored, but his shot was too perfect.' - RON ATKINSON 'Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.' - RON ATKINSON 'He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.' - RON ATKINSON 'He held his head in his hands as it flashed past the post.' - ALAN BRAZIL 'It's like a big Christmas pudding out there' - DON HOWE 'Zola's got two feet.' - DAVID PLEAT 'Venison and Butcher are as brave as two peas in a pod.' - JOHN SILLETT 'He was as game as a pebble.' - DAVID WEBB 'Once Tony Daley opens his legs, you've got a problem.' - HOWARD WILKINSON 'Ray Wilkins' day will come one night' - BOBBY ROBSON 'Most of the players will be wearing rubbers tonight.' - GARY LINEKER 'St Mirren have been under the rack.' - CHICK MURRAY 'It wasn't a bad performance, but you can't tell whether it was good or bad.' - JIMMY HILL 'The keeper was coming out in instalments.' - JOE ROYLE 'I'd like to see him scoring two or more goals in games which United win 1-0.' - BRIAN WOOLNOUGH 'They've come out with all cylinders flying.' - LUTHER BLISSETT 'Tony Adams - he's the rock that the team has grown from.' - RON ATKINSON 'The teams at the bottom of the premiership are conceding a lot of goals and that's no coincidence.' - BARRY VENISON 'I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.' - PELE 'Fiorentina start the second half attacking their fans; just the way they like things.' - RAY WILKINS 'The Newcastle back three, back four, back five have been at sixes and sevens.' - BARRY VENISON 'He [Ian Wright] is missing the absence of Dennis [Bergkamp].' - BRIAN MARWOOD 'It was a definite penalty but Wright made a right swan-song of it.' - JACK CHARLTON 'In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May." - JIMMY HILL '...and he [Peter Schmeichel] extends and grows even bigger than he is.' - RON ATKINSON 'I'd be surprised if all 22 players are on the field at the end of the game - one's already been sent off.' - GEORGE BEST 'They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it...' - RON ATKINSON 'He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.' - JIMMY HILL 'They [Manchester United] are breathing down the heels of Liverpool now.' - GARY NEWBON 'We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.' - JIMMY GREAVES 'They'll perhaps finish in the top three. I can't see them finishing any higher.' - DON HOWE 'Kevin Keegan has now tasted the other side of the fence.' - DAVE MERRINGTON 'Martin Keown is up everybody's backsides.' - TREVOR BROOKING 'Preki quite literally only has the one foot.' - DAVID PLEAT 'Like Jim Smith's (Derby) side this year, we were answering our own questions.' - KEVIN HECTOR 'They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.' - RON ATKINSON 'Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.' - RON ATKINSON 'He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.' - RON ATKINSON 'I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.' - RON ATKINSON 'I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.' - IAN ST JOHN 'Apart from their goals, Norway wouldn't have scored.' - TERRY VENABLES 'The Croatians don't play well without the ball.' - BARRY VENISON 'He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.' - BOBBY ROBSON 'Manchester United have hit the ground running - albeit with a 3-0 defeat.' - BOB WILSON 'That's no remedy for success.' - CHRIS WADDLE 'The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.' - GARY LINEKER 'The gelling period has just started to knit.' - RAY WILKINS 'Emmanuel Petit has won more medals than any other player in the Premiership this year, although Patrick Vieira's won the same medals.' - BRIAN WOOLNOUGH 'The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it' - RON ATKINSON 'To be fair, I don't think Les Ferdinand was fouled there - I think he went over on his own ability.' - ALAN MULLERY 'Well, I've seen some tackles, Jonathan, but that was the ultimatum!' - ALAN MULLERY '...Jurgen Klinsmann, who refutes to earn �25,000 a week.' - ALAN MULLERY 'He's not going to adhere himself to the fans' - ALAN MULLERY 'It doesn't endow me, to be honest...' - ALAN MULLERY 'I can't understand the notoriety of people' - ALAN MULLERY 'It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'Zero-zero is a big score.' - RON ATKINSON 'Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him.' - DAVID PLEAT 'Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball.' - IAN ST JOHN '...in the other two games, the FA Cup Final and the Premiership.' - RON ATKINSON 'He just got his body between himself and the goal.' - RAY CLEMENCE 'Even if you tap it in from one yard it counts in the record books as a goal, unlike the chances you miss.' - JIMMY HILL 'Korsten is making a meal of it...er...that's clearly a penalty, yes.' - TREVOR FRANCIS 'For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls' - DAVID PLEAT 'He's a great little player...who scored it again?' - JACK CHARLTON 'We were a little bit outnumbered there, it was two against two.' - FRANK MCLINTOCK 'If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.' - JIMMY HILL 'They have got their feet on the ground and if they stay that way they will go places.' - JOHN GIDMAN 'You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot' - TREVOR BROOKING 'That's a 14-15 pointer there if there ever was one.' - BARRY VENISON 'There won't be a dry house in the place.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'The candle is still very much in the melting pot.' - ALAN MCINALLY 'The Scots have really got their hands cut out tonight' - TREVOR FRANCIS 'When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.' - ALAN MULLERY 'Guppy has a dextrous left foot.' - BOBBY ROBSON 'You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.' - RON ATKINSON 'Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.' - RON ATKINSON 'Flo literally turned Taricco inside-out.' - TREVOR FRANCIS 'Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.' - RON ATKINSON 'That was a needle through the haystack job.' - CLIVE ALLEN 'Mick McCarthy will have to replace Cascarino because he's quickly running out of legs.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland' - JOE JORDAN 'Hearts are now playing with a five man back four.' - ALAN MCINALLY 'The tackles are coming in thick and thin' - ALAN BRAZIL 'The club has literally exploded.' - IAN WRIGHT 'Huddersfield will want to win this one.' - RON ATKINSON 'He's like all great players - he's not a great player yet.' - TREVOR FRANCIS 'If that ball had crossed the line, it would have been a goal.' - ANTONIO RATTIN 'Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.' - TREVOR BROOKING 'That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.' - RON ATKINSON 'For Burnley to win they are going to have to score.' - CHRIS KAMARA 'It was easier to miss than score.' - CLIVE ALLEN 'We're calling him the young player of the year, but he's only 20 years old.' - ALAN MCINALLY 'Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.' - RON ATKINSON 'Dunfermline have a difficult month ahead over the coming 2 or 3 weeks.' - DICK CAMPBELL 'If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.' - JOHN BARNES '[He's] the eqivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.' - RON ATKINSON 'A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that' - RON ATKINSON 'The team must try to get their ship back on the road.' - RAY WILKINS 'Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it' - ALVIN MARTIN 'That would have been the icing on his start.' - DAVID PLEAT 'He's a two-legged tripod, if you know what I mean' - GRAHAM RICHARDS 'They only count when they go in the goal' - CHRIS KAMARA 'Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.' - CHRIS KAMARA 'I don't want to be either partial or impartial' - FRANK MCLINTOCK 'If there's one thing Gus Uhlenbeek's got, it's pace and determination' - RAY HOUGHTON 'The problems at Wimbledon seem to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency' - JOE KINNEAR 'They've been out a long time - credit them for getting back so quickly' - DAVID FAIRCLOUGH 'There's still 45 minutes to go - for both sides, I would guess' - BRIAN MARWOOD 'If you were to name the top three goalkeepers in England, he�d be pleased with that.' - PAUL ELLIOTT 'If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'He was just about to pull the trigger on his left foot' - TERRY BUTCHER 'It's his first cap, so he's not got a lot of experience at this level.' - BRIAN MARWOOD 'You either win or you lose. There's no in between.' - TERRY VENABLES 'He's looking around at himself' - JIMMY GREAVES 'Oldham are leading 1-0, a well-deserved victory at this stage of the game' - TOMMY DOCHERTY 'George will be happy with a draw - I know how ambitious and positive he is.' - TERRY NEILL 'Roy Keane, his face punches the air...' - ALAN BRAZIL 'He wasn't really trying to score with that shot.' - DAVID PLEAT 'Scoring the first goal in soccer is very important, because your opponent is then faced with the task of having to score one to draw level and two to take the lead.' - GRAHAM LEGGATT 'At 23, he ought to be around until 2006, if he can keep his head.' - GLENN HODDLE 'Those are the sort of doors that get opened if you don't close them' - TERRY VENABLES 'And you don't score 118 goals in 120 games by missing from there.' - JON CHAMPION '...and tonight we have the added ingredient of Kenny Dalglish not being here' - MARTIN TYLER 'And for those of you watching without television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2' - DAVID COLEMAN 'Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment - exactly the position he is at his most menacing.' - GERALD SINSTADT 'The Bulgarian team are here with a relatively 'old' squad. They impressed at USA 94, but, well, they're four years older now, most of them.' - CBS commentator 'Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'If they play together, you've got two of them.' - DION DUBLIN 'Romania are more Portuguese than German.' - BARRY VENISON 'There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.' - RON ATKINSON 'Two-nil was a dangerous lead to have...' - PETER BEARDSLEY 'England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield' - MARK LAWRENSON 'Ilie has a deception of pace' - GLENN HODDLE 'The one thing England have got is spirit, resolve, grit and determination.' - ALAN HANSEN 'I don't think he's a thousand percent mentally' - EAMONN DUNPHY 'The 3-5-3 system isn't working for them.' - EAMONN DUNPHY 'He didn't get booked for the yellow card' - FRANK STAPLETON 'I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.' - RON ATKINSON 'The ball could have gone anywhere and almost did' - BRIAN MARWOOD 'The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.' - LOU MACARI 'It's got nothing to do with his ability. In fact, it has got to do with his ability.' - BARRY VENISON 'He hasn't been the normal Paul Scholes today, and he's not the only one.' - ALVIN MARTIN 'Scotland don't have to score tonight, but they do have to win.' - BILLY McNEILL '...the Derby fans walking home absolutely silent in their cars' - ALAN BRAZIL 'He hits it into the corner of the net as straight as a nut' - DAVID PLEAT 'He has all-round, 365 degree vision' - ALAN MULLERY 'That was a inch perfect pass to no one' - RAY WILKINS 'Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.' - RON ATKINSON 'He can be as good as he wants to be, that's how good he can be.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'The front three are playing well in tandem.' - ALAN McINALLY 'He must be lightning slow' - RON ATKINSON 'It's real end-to-end stuff, but unfortunately it's all up at Forest's end.' - CHRIS KAMARA 'There's a snap about Liverpool that just isn't there' - RON ATKINSON 'The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres' - JOHAN CRUYFF 'There's Thierry Henry, exploding like the French train that he is.' - DAVID PLEAT 'It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together' - KENNY SANSOM 'For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.' - RON ATKINSON 'If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal' - RON ATKINSON 'He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.' - RON ATKINSON 'The beauty of cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath' - TERRY BUTCHER 'It was six and half a dozen, and six won' - CHRIS KAMARA 'If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'All of a sudden they still keep playing that flat back four' - JOHN BERESFORD 'His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.' - RON ATKINSON '...and it (the ball) just crept either side of the post.' - CHRIS KAMARA 'To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first' - MARK LAWRENSON 'Now both teams want the ball. Sheffield want the ball, and so do United.' - CHRIS KAMARA 'Okon was booked for tackling Hamann's tackle.' - DAVE BASSETT 'When Scholes gets it [tackling] wrong, they come in so late that they arrive yesterday' - RON ATKINSON 'He's got two great feet. Left foot, right foot, either side.' - ALAN HANSEN 'I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it' - ALAN HANSEN 'Ipswich's pitch has been voted the best in the Premiership - in terms of surface, that is.' - ALAN MULLERY 'Gerry Taggart has been booked for a caution.' - DAVE BASSETT 'This is a real cat and carrot situation.' - DAVID PLEAT 'When it comes to the David Beckhams of this world, this guy's up there with Roberto Carlos' - DUNCAN MCKENZIE 'They're in pole position, ie 3rd position, for the Champions' League.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'He's got a great future ahead. He's missed so much of it.' - TERRY VENABLES 'They're playing a 4-4-1-1-1 formation' - FRANK STAPLETON 'He doesn't know how to spell the word give up' - PAUL WADE 'He had all the time in the world to kill a few seconds' - PAUL WADE 'It's just like they always say - too much too late' - TERRY BUTCHER 'It's like the Sea of Galilee - the two defenders just parted.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'Even if he had scored for Alaves, it would have made no difference to the scoreline.' - GERRY ARMSTRONG 'I don't think that record will ever be broken or beaten' - GERRY ARMSTRONG 'Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'He (Stephen Pressley) might play better if he shaves that beard' - CHARLIE NICHOLAS 'It's imperable that they get off to a good start' - CHARLIE NICHOLAS 'Not only has he shown Junior Lewis the red card, but he's sent him off' - CHRIS KAMARA 'These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.' - MARK LAWRENSON 'This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.' - RON ATKINSON 'The midfield picks itself: Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A.N. Other.' - PHIL NEAL 'You can't compare two players who are different because they're not the same' - GLENN HODDLE 'There's a few tired limbs in the blue legs.' - RON ATKINSON Richard Keys: 'Well, wasn't that the most nail-biting and dramatic finale?' Alan Shearer: 'Yeah, especially at the end.' 'Paulo Wanchope has scored on 67 minutes and that's exactly the start Manchester City would have wanted.' - DAVE BASSETT 'If the goalkeeper wasn't there, it would've been a goal.' - DAVE BASSETT 'And Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds.' - DAVE BASSETT 'Leeds have only had one shot on target, which may well have been the goal.' - ANDY GRAY |
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