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Knock it long
When Everton knock it long, they don’t knock it long.
Damp squid
It was a damp squid for Liverpool.
Last kick
Giroud scored a brilliant header with the last kick of the game.
Exciting
Sometimes you want Obertan to open his legs and do something a bit exciting.
Goal scorers
The thing about goal scorers is that they score goals.
Score
When they don’t score, they hardly ever win.
Fantastically wide
That’s a fantastic penalty, but he’ll be gutted it went wide.
Use feet
Footballers these days often have to use their feet.
Dicks everywhere
Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they have eleven Dicks on the field.
Vertical
The ref was vertically 15 yards away.
Backwards
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that’s backwards.
One of them
I think one of these teams could win this.
Jack and Goliath
The beauty of cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.
Doing his business
Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park.
Unsighted
The keeper was unsighted – he still didn’t see it.
Open legs
Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem.
Clever
Some people think that I haven’t got the brains to be that clever.
The best
Alex Ferguson is the best manager I’ve ever had at this level. Well, he’s the only manager I’ve actually had at this level. But he’s the best manager I’ve ever had.
Under 22
The Germans only have one player under 22, and he’s 23.
What a difference
The goals made such a difference to the way this game went.
Firm believer
I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.
Score goals
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Never again
I’ll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.
Head
That’s exactly how you head a ball…you use your head.
Still raining
Despite the rain, it’s still raining here at Old Trafford.
Deja vu
Spurs have been here before at White Hart Lane.
Eternity not enough
Oh he had an eternity to play that ball, but he took too long over it.
Loveable lump
Didier Drogba’s just a big loveable lump. Graham Norton seemed to get inside him last night.
Stroking
Ardiles strokes the ball like it is part of his own anatomy.
Marginal
The margin is very marginal.
He's busy
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV 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 he was out there playing.
Didn't win
We lost because we didn’t win.
The Dutch
To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
Tossed
I don’t like to see players tossed off needlessly.
Positivity
Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on.
Stroking
Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.
Almost everything
Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.
If only
If that had gone in, it would have been a goal.
Hoping
The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.
Ageless player
The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.
Older
He's 31 this year - last year he was 30.
Bubble
Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting.
Not time
The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time.
A good scratch
Neil Baker is standing on the touchline with hands in tracksuit bottoms scratching his head.
Sixpence
He turned on a sixpence like a thoroughbred horse.
Gary Neville?
Paul Scholes with four players in front of him - five if you count Gary Neville.
Can of thinking
Pompey need to open Bolton’s can of defensive thinking.
Old money
They've got to retreat ten metres, or ten yards in old money.
Riding defenders
Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders.
Silly
Neither side wants to do anything silly at this stage, except score.
Irreplaceable
He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.
Self love
The Spurs players hug themselves in celebration.
Licking wounds
They've kicked our backsides... we've got to lick our wounds.
Ageless
The ageless Teddy Sheringham, 37 now.
Where?
He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.
The broom.
I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep.
David James
David James is a cretin.
Transition
The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.
Belching and farting
Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.
For the fish
The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.
Legless
There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton.
On the pull
To put it in gentlemen’s terms. If you’ve been for a night out and you’re looking for a young lady and you pull one, you’ve done what you set out to do. We didn’t look our best today, but we pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks she’s not. Our performance today would have been not the best-looking bird, but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best-looking lady we ended up taking home, but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let’s have coffee.
Jessica Rabbit
This is not just a dream, this is a wet dream of orgasmic proportions. It’s got more curves than Jessica Rabbit on steroids.
Chuffed
I couldn’t be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season.
Woof
Every dog has its day and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark.
Barnsley girls
The local girls are far uglier than the ones back in Belgrade or Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, where I come from. Our women are much prettier. Besides, they don’t drink as much beer as the Barnsley girls.
Jack Russell
In the first half we were like the Dog and Duck, in the second half like Real Madrid, We can’t go on like that. At full-time I was like an irritated Jack Russell.
Bloodthirsty
Giving Cristiano that much time and space on the ball is like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank.
Just an analogy?
If you’re a burglar, it’s no good poncing about outside somebody’s house, looking good with your swag bad ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don’t advocate that obviously. It’s just an analogy.
Not worth watching
One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch so it is not worthwhile to wait for the World Cup.
Talking rubbish
I might have said that, but on the whole I talk a lot of rubbish.
Unpoetic
If a Frenchman goes on about seagulls, trawlers, and sardines, he’s called a philosopher. I’d just be called a short Scottish bum talking crap.
Trawler
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Legend
I came like a hero, left like a legend.
Not listening
Then Guardiola started his philosopher thing. I was barely listening. Why would I? It was advanced bulls**t about blood, sweat and tears, that kind of stuff.
Tea bag
We’re like a bad tea-bag – we never stay in the cup that long.
Not afraid
I’m more afraid of my mum than Sven-Goran Eriksson or David Moyes.
Nine out of ten
Maka’s normally a one-in-ten man. Most players score nine out of ten, but he misses nine out of ten.
Tactical help
I sorted out the team formation last night lying in bed with the wife. When your husband’s as ugly as me, you’d only want to talk football in bed.
Cool
Messi, you could drop a tarantula into his shorts and he’ll still be cool.
No pleasing some
If people had seen me walking on water, you can be sure someone, somewhere would have complained ‘look at that Berti Vogts, he can’t even swim’.
Adapting
Djimi Traore had to adapt to the English game, and he did that by going out on loan to Lens last season.
Bad boy
John Hartson’s got more previous than Jack the Ripper.
Heart on sleeve
There was a time in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.
Blackpool
I love Blackpool. We’re very similar. We both look better in the dark!
Noisy neighbours
Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on, and turn it up a bit louder.
No goals
I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week, playing some of the best football I’ve ever seen and yet they couldn’t have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets.
Fell asleep
I tried to watch the Tottenham match on television in my hotel, but I fell asleep.
Curtains
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
Liverpool greats
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
Sexy boy
They didn’t get angry because I took my shirt off and got booked, they saw my physique and got jealous.
Orange
What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.
Custard
He’s six foot four and made of custard.
Pasta?
When an Italian tells me it’s pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure. They are the inventors of the smokescreen.
Tactics
Players lose you games, not tactics. There’s so much crap talk about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominos.
Shocking Brazilians
The Brazilians were shocked, and I supposed that’s why they didn’t tackle me, because they thought there was no way an Englishman is going to do this.
Not an iceberg
Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.
No excuses
I’d been ill and hardly trained for a week and I’d been out of the team for three weeks before that. So I wasn’t sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I’m not one to make excuses.
Where are you?
My wife doesn’t like football. One day she called me ten minutes before a game to find out where I was.
Simple game
Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.
Justice
Soccer is not about justice. It’s a drama and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.
Melons
Young players are like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100% sure that the melon is good.
Problems
I have a problem, which is I’m getting better at everything related to my job since I started.
Life support
Ronaldo’s been given a second yellow for arguing with the life support… err, the linesman.
Nice pass
Wilkins sends an inch perfect pass to no one in particular.
Cow
You may as well put a cow in the middle of the pitch, walking. And then stop the game because there was a cow.
Flawed
Diego Maradona – a flawed genius, who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Mary Poppins
Football managers are like a parachutist, at times, it doesn’t open. Here, it is an umbrella. You understand, Mary Poppins.
Balance
We go into the second half with United 1 – 0 up, so the game is perfectly balanced.
4-0
When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1.
2%
We must have had 99 percent of the game. It was the other three percent that cost us the match.
Skill
Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.
Sugar priest
Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar
Built on sand
Manchester City are built on sand and I don’t mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.
Prettiest wife
Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.
Milk
White liquid in a bottle has to be milk.
No tattoos
I don’t have any tattoos, but that’s mainly because none of my limbs are wide enough to support a visible image.
So close
That would’ve been a goal had it gone inside the post.
Pacey
What Newcastle lack is a lack of pace.
Class
What does Arsenal mean? It means class. The structure of the Club, everything has a classy feel about it. It isn't always about success, there is more than that and this is what makes it a cut above the rest.
Strong believer
I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches.
Million times
I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.
Missed it
I don't know Jeff has there? I must have missed that. Is it a red card? I don't know, I don't know the rain must have got in my eyes Jeff. No you're right I saw him go off but I thought they were bringing a sub on Jeff. Still nil nil ha ha!
What's happening?
Papa Bouba Diop the man mountain himself is playing as a striker and he's got Healey one side of him and Diamante's coming out the over side of him, it's Papa Bouba Diop with the header! It's a goal. It's a goal Jeff...is it? David Healy he's running away. Andrew D'Urso playing on...sorry my monitor's down again I'm looking over my shoulder, I don't really know the assistant, has he give it? Oh the assistant has it give it I don't think Jeff. No the referee hasn't give it either…don't really know what's happening Jeff ha ha. Could be, could be not ha ha ha!
Divided
Well, when I was at Leeds it was the best and worst time of my career, because when I was a kid it was my ambition to play for Middlesbrough, where I was born, and my dream to play for Leeds, and everyone said I couldn't have two teams.
Hands in head
Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head.
Well done lady
Well done to the lady lineswoman.
Must score
For Burnley to win they are going to have to score.
Beavers again
Manchester City are defending like beavers.
Beavers
Their football Arsenal is on another level but Spurs are fighting like beavers defending for their lives, It's a terrific game, still one nill. The game as a spectacle is magnificent. Spurs working like beavers but the football from Arsenal Jeff, well it's out of this world it's sensational, their carving them up as easy as…well, as easy as anything Jeff.
Statistics
Statistics are there to be broken.
All on his own
Nicky Shorey is the provider but Shane Long has made this all on his own.
Intent
Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.
Words
Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words.
Thick and fast
The atmosphere is thick and fast.
Romanians
Romania are more Portuguese than German.
No sausages
If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.
In the middle
We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.
Not the best
I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one.
End to side
It's end to end stuff, but from side to side.
Double harder
Scoring goals is the hardest thing in football, but doing it in a struggling team is double harder.
Not Sunday
It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.
Negative spin
OK, so we lost, but good things can come from it; negative and positive.
Arrogant
Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.
GOAT
At 21 years of age, he is going to be a phenomenal player. I think he can play anywhere on the pitch.
Not aged well
Phil Jones, arguably the way he is looking, could be our best ever player. I think Jones may be one of the best players we have ever had, not matter where we play him.
Self-mentoring
My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study and that’s been my biggest influence.
More omelette woes
In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.
Omelette?
It is omelettes and eggs. No eggs – no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs.
Inappropriate management
We have to keep the ball better and we have to move the ball quicker – that’s always what we have to do. Desire…it is a great word. I often use the word “horny” with my players.
Unstoppable
What a shot! That’s completely unstoppable, but the keeper’s got to do better for me.
Suits you
If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.
Knee to face
Sandro’s holding his face, from that you can tell it’s a knee injury.
Looking down
When I’ve nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
Chelsea fun
I love to see Chelsea players moaning at the referee, trying to intimidate the officials, and Jose jumping up and down in his technical area. It’s great to see.
On Mourinho
I don’t give a sh*te to be honest. He can’t take it, can he? He can’t take it because we’ve out-tactic-ed him, out-witted him. He just can’t cope. He can tell me all he wants.
Finish ahead
If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.
We remember
The problem with my life is that I’ve said too much s**t in the past and no-one forgets it.
Yoyo dieting
He's put on weight, and I've lost it, and vice versa.
Unfair advantage
Germany are a very difficult team to play - they had 11 internationals out there today.
Not harsh at all
Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match.
Accuracy required
All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
Never done his best
One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
Italian giants
I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.
Lazy days
If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.
Not bothered
I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
Six years of neglect
My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
Dressing difficulties
I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.
One way only
There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way.
Unsettled
I couldn't settle in Italy. It was like living in a foreign country.
Win or lose!?
A game is not won until it is lost.
Praise indeed
They're the second-best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
Dribbles
He dribbles a lot, and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces.
Eyes closed
If you closed your eyes, you couldn't tell the difference between the two sides.
Unprecedented
It's an unprecedented precedent.
Acres of time
Matty Jarvis had acres of time there.
They can score
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
Black, white, and yellow
For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.
Significant changes
The one significant change is, in fact, the second significant change.
Crisis of confidence
Reading won't have the confidence to be confident.
Guttering
Not to win is guttering.
Under pressure
The last six games of the Invincibles season were the most pressurised, because we were under pressure.
It's what they do
The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.
In the end
In the end, Rosicky initially did well.
Learning quickly
I've learned that you have to score goals to win games.
Sweet smell of improvement
I think there was just a little change today and I started to smell that things were improving a little bit.
Jolly Martin
I'm not someone to fear things. They say in Holland 'have no fear, Jolly is here'!
Winning by draws
Any team can beat any other in this league and just to prove it there were seven draws yesterday.
Only one Peter Shilton
What can I say about Peter Shilton? Peter Shilton is Peter Shilton, and he has been Peter Shilton since the year dot.
Rudiments of poultry farming
If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket.
On the fence
I'd say he's the best in Europe, if you put me on the fence.
Neck and neck
They're two points behind us, so we're neck and neck.
No monks at Newcastle United
They can't be monks - we don't want them to be monks, we want them to be football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.
Girl power
If we invite any player up to the Quayside to see the girls and then up to our magnificent stadium, we will be able to persuade any player to sign.
B.C. trees
Look at those olive trees. They're two hundred years old – from before the time of Christ!
Towels, guns, and pressure
Tottenham have impressed me: they haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.
Day or night
Ray Wilkins' day will come one night.
Two weeks or 14 days
Steve Hodge has been unfit for two weeks, well, no, for 14 days.
Scoring more than Brazil
There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.
World cup (in France)
We're taking 22 players to Italy, sorry, to Spain...where are we, Jim?
Bobby borrowing from Hitler
Hitler didn't tell us when he was going to send over those doodlebugs, did he?
Underestimating Cameroon
We didn't underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought.
Better tackle than Tyson
Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn't bite. And he has a great tackle.
Andy O'Brien's nose
Andy O'Brien has an horrendous nose, the poor lad. It is massive, it is black and blue and it is awful.
Valencia layabouts
Valencia spoiled the game, they laid down and they stayed down
Shearer vs Bellamy
You've got both ends of the spectrum at Newcastle. On the one hand there's Alan Shearer, who is rightly regarded as an ambassador for the game. And then there's Craig Bellamy.
You little girl
Taricco fell over and his feet were in the air. He pushed them out and hit me in the chest on purpose and, as some foreigners do, he was rolling around like a little girl.
Lazy boys
I am not going to keep carrying the can for the players. They are not having a go and they are bone idle.
Not value for money
I would rather walk away from the job than watch any more of that. I am absolutely sick to death of it. They are nicking money while people are paying their hard earned cash to go and see them.
A bit of a muddle
If I don’t have an ambition of managing AC Milan or England then it lies in managing Charlton, for example, which there’s an outside chance with the connection I’ve got. No disrespect to Charlton but is that me fulfilled? No, it’s not what I want.
A paternal touch
I forgive him. It's like when you have a child who makes a mistake, even if it's a big mistake, you try to understand and try to explain. That's because he is your child.
Keep smiling
I’ve slept with a coat hanger in my mouth to keep the smile on my face these last couple of days.
The tender touch
People need different types of management and Emile (Heskey) needs cuddling. He needs to know he is liked around the place - and he is loved here.
Computer virus
Pahars has also caught every virus going except a computer virus and he is probably working on that even now.
Too heavy to fall
He's a big guy (Jardel) and at 15 stone to fall like that...my grandson weighs two and a half stone and he wouldn't have fallen.
Tell your friends
When you (Jardel) go and speak to your mates and they ask what you contributed to the game and you say 'I fell, I fell like a big Jessie'.
Ellis not mincing his words
I've not spoken with Balaban other than when he came back to Aston Villa after the summer, I said, 'you're back' and he said, 'you remember me then? I said, 'I'll never forget you, the money I paid for you, my son'. I also told him he had put some weight on.
Ince on Danny Mills
The free kick was a disgrace. It was b*****ks. Danny Mills is just an idiot.
Perks of management
I can't sleep, I can't nod off, I can't go out for a beer with the lads like I used to, I think about the job all the time and I'm losing my hair and losing all my mates.
Catch flu
I've been training for just over a month now but for the first two weeks of that I couldn't even catch flu.
On being 4th
I'm going home now to get myself a Coca-Cola and a packet of crisps and I'll sit in front of the television and look at the table on Teletext all night.
Twins
It's true the club has only seen my useless twin brother so far because my shooting in front of goal all depends on split-second timing and I can't pretend I've got it right yet.
Alternative medicine
He [the Doctor] tried everything. I had goose liver, calf's liver and juices from a turkey's head injected into me.
Christian diplomacy
It's better I don't meet the club's officers any more, they don't listen to my suggestions and I'll just get angry and hang them on the wall.
One small problem
Our major problem is that we don't know how to play football
Inspirational leadership
Can we become champions? Of course not. Only a stupid man would think we can.
No sitting
I'll quit when I can no longer stand up.
Bon voyage
He [Joaquin] has three years left on his contract, not three months. In that time many things can happen, he could renew, he could go free to another club, he could get injured and he may even given up football or die in an aeroplane accident.
Getting dressed in the kitchen
If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen.
Life in the goldfish bowl
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
A hard day's night
It wasn't going to be our day on the night.
Alternative alternatives
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
Think positively
It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.
It's Di Canio's goal
Paolo Di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.
Why did they have to score
If they hadn't scored, we would've won.
The importance of the second half
People always remember the second half.
Every day is like Sunday
I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.
No legs required
He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.
Repeating himself
As I've said before and I've said it in the past...
Super fitness required
Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.
Most important time
The first 90 minutes are the most important.
A year older
In a year's time, he's a year older.
Continental philosophy
The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.
102%
We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other three per cent that cost us the match.
Growing lad
I was a young lad when I was growing up.
Realities of age
When a player gets to 30, so does his body.
Enjoying the silence
The minute's silence was immaculate, I have never heard a minute's silence like that.
Big and small
I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.
No comment
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.
Just like George Best
The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we come from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man.
Only one Ryan Giggs, and he's not Best
There's no way Ryan Giggs is another George Best. He's another Ryan Giggs.
Not the same Hoddle
Glen Hoddle hasn't been the Hoddle we know. Neither has Bryan Robson.
Same yet different
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.
The end of the tunnel revealed
I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.
All seeing crowd
The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.
A rare footballer
He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.
A world without football
If there weren't such a thing as football, we'd all be frustrated footballers.
The secret of consistency
If we played like this every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistant.
Writing in the ether
What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.
The magic of slow motion
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
0-0 and no score
And with 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.
Speed of light
Football's not like an electric light. You can't just flick the switch and change from quick to slow.
Unbeating and winning
Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins.
Lots of shots
Mirandinha will have more shots this afternoon than both sides put together.
Even worse than reality
I would also think that the action replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.
No comparison
In comparison, there's no comparison.
Shakey winds
In terms of the Richter Scale this defeat was a force eight gale.
Two sneaky goals
That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.
Off the rails
Celtic were at one time nine points ahead, but somewhere along the road, their ship went off the rails.
Two attacks, one ball
What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.
Plain sailing
It was that game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
Getting a grip on knockouts
And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley...unless somebody knocks us out.
Contractual realities
A contract on a piece of paper, saying you want to leave, is like a piece of paper saying you want to leave.
Miss to score
You have got to miss them to score sometimes.
Match duration revelation
Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.
Dodgy scales
The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.
Very fast indeed
He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.
First time since the last time
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.
Something up his sleeve
Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh pair of legs up his sleeve.
Unconventional gambling
Beckenbauer really has gambled all his eggs.
Cool panic
I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
Hungry Uruguayans
The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.
History repeating
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
Warming up well
And the news from Guadalajara where the temperature is 96 degrees, is that Falcao is warming up.
Cold, in the cold
And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.
Prediction time
I never make predictions, and I never will.
Out it but in it
And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than at any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.
A holy experience
What's it like being in Bethlehem, the place where Christmas began? I suppose it's like seeing Ian Wright at Arsenal.
You do the math
Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.
Either side of the post
An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal.
The best left winger
I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.
Giant shadows
The new West Stand casts a giant shadow over the entire pitch, even on a sunny day.
Life after football
What will you do when you leave football, Jack - will you stay in football?
Kicking where?
Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.
Crumble like a wreck
I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump of a bridge.