IN A MANNER
OF SPEAKING

Not being in the
Rumbelows Cup
for these teams
won’t mean a row
of beans, because
that’s only small
potatoes to them.

Ian St John

Manchester United have got the
bull between their horns now.

Billy McNeill

Celtic have taken this game
by the scruff of the throat.

John Greig

Those are the sort of doors that
get opened if you don’t close them.

Terry Venables

And tonight we have the
added ingredient of Kenny
Dalglish not being here.

Martin Tyler

 

We can only come out
of this game with egg
on our faces, so it’s
a real banana skin.

Ray Stewart before a crunch tie in
the Scottish Cup in 2001

Graeme Souness went behind
my back right in front of my face.

Craig Bellamy

All that was missing was a wee rub
of the green, when we went 2–nil
down it was like shutting the gate
after the horse had bolted. We
left ourselves a mountain to climb.

Dunfermline boss Bert Paton after a defeat

We could be putting the
hammer in Luton’s coffin.

Ray Wilkins

Sometimes you open your
mouth and it punches you
straight between the eyes.

Ian Rush

Liam Brady’s been playing
inside Platini’s shorts all night.

Jimmy Magee

If you don’t like the heat in the
dressing room, get out of the kitchen.

Terry Venables

For the benefit of Anglo-
Saxon viewers, I wonder if the
TV sports presenters would
consider using subtitles when
interviewing Kenny Dalglish.

Letter to the Evening Standard