Dicks everywhere
Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they have eleven Dicks on the field.
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Jack and Goliath
The beauty of cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.
What a difference
The goals made such a difference to the way this game went.
If only
If that had gone in, it would have been a goal.
Older
He's 31 this year - last year he was 30.
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.
Old money
They've got to retreat ten metres, or ten yards in old money.
Where?
He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.
Custard
He’s six foot four and made of custard.
Romanians
Romania are more Portuguese than German.
End to side
It's end to end stuff, but from side to side.
Knee to face
Sandro’s holding his face, from that you can tell it’s a knee injury.
Eyes closed
If you closed your eyes, you couldn't tell the difference between the two sides.
Unprecedented
It's an unprecedented precedent.
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.
It's what they do
The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.
Two weeks or 14 days
Steve Hodge has been unfit for two weeks, well, no, for 14 days.
Every day is like Sunday
I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.
Most important time
The first 90 minutes are the most important.
A year older
In a year's time, he's a year older.
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.
A rare footballer
He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.
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.
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.
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.
Match duration revelation
Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.
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.
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.
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.
You do the math
Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.
Life after football
What will you do when you leave football, Jack - will you stay in football?