Named after David Coleman - a BBC sports commentator who became famous

for suffering from "foot in mouth" disease.

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If the players want to make it hard for me, I am happy to make it twice as hard for them."

-- Wendy Toms, the first female referee to officiate in a professional game

"I've told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones".

-- Chris Turner, Peterborough manager, before LC QF, 1992.

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered".

-- George Best.

"The only English Paul Gascoigne taught me was : 'You reet ugly bastard'"

-- Marco Van Basten at the training ground to Chelsea Steward (30/11/96)

"If you're Marco Van Basten, I'm Father Christmas."

-- Chelsea Steward at the training ground to Marco Van Basten (30/11/96)

"That's great. Tell him he's Pele and get him back on."

-- John Lambie, Partick Thistle manager, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was.

"I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs..."

-- ANDY GRAY, Sky Sport

Richard Keys : Well, Roy, do you think that you'll have to finish above Manchester United to win the league ? Roy Evans : You have to finish above everyone to win the league, Richard.

"It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday."

-- (Radio 5 Live)

"I'm not a believer in luck.....but I do believe you need it."

-- ALAN BALL

"Dumbarton player Steve McCahill has limped off with a badly cut forehead."

-- TOM FERRIE

"And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley......unless somebody knocks us out."

-- DAVE BASSETT

"And Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds."

-- PETER JONES

"Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins."

-- BRIAN MOORE

"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

"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel."

-- Stuart Pearce (1992)

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.

"Manchester United take more in programme sales than we take on the gate."

-- Lawrie McMenemy, Southampton

"If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim."

-- Berti Vogts, Germany coach

"You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey."

-- Arrigo Sacchi, Italy coach, defending a meagre playing record

"Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time."

-- Richard Moller Nielsen, Denmark coach

"The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to Eurodisney."

-- Dean Holdsworth, Wimbledon

"I was shocked when I was first introduced to the fans because they brought out a sheep, cut its head off and then smeared blood over my forehead."

-- Manchester United's Ronnie Johnsen on life with Besiktas, Turkey

"The score is Sunderland nil, Leicester nil, the temperature is nil and the entertainment value is not much above nil."

-- Sunderland v Leicester, Radio 5 Live

"I think having Wasps around here as well gives us that little buzz around the place."

-- Ray Wilkins on the QPR-Wasps groundshare

"This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players."

-- praise for the Under-21s from Javier Clemente, Spain's coach

"There are some great defenders here, I just don't know their names."

-- David Ginola of Newcastle and France

"It took a lot of bottle for Tony to own up."

-- Ian Wright on the Arsenal captain's confession to alcoholism

"It's sod's law. Now I've got time to improve my golf, it's the wrong time of year."

-- Howard Wilkinson when sacked by Leeds

"I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help."

-- Ron Atkinson at Stamford Bridge

"The referee was booking everyone. I thought he was filling in his lottery numbers."

-- Ian Wright

"I've always said there's a place for the press, but they haven't dug it yet"

-- Tommy Docherty.

"Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test."

-- ITV commentator John Helm