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Did they really say that? |
| Date: 06/04/08 |
We all know that a commentators job is very hard... don't we ?
Here are some of the actual things said on tv and radio by some of them...
John Motson specials...
"I was about to say, before something far more interesting interrupted ..." France v Bulgaria
"And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway."
"For those of you watching in Black and White, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip"
Motty on form in the Columbia v Tunisia game, after Tunisia made a substitution: "They've now got Ben Younes, Ben Ahmed and Ben Slimane. I think we'll have to stick to using just their surnames." Sure enough he went on to refer to them as Younes, Ahmed and Slimane.
Terry Venables...
"Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored"
"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again"
"If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen."
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."
Brian Moore...
"Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins."
"Adams is stretching himself, looking for Seaman"
"Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose"
"That would have been a goal if the goalkeeper hadn't saved it"
"I came to Nantes two years ago and it's much the same today, except that it's completely different"
"A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off"
"They [Rosenborg] have won 66 games, and they've scored in all of them."
Now some Big Rons...
"Zidane is not very happy, because he's suffering from the wind"
"He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces"
"They've picked their heads up off the ground and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders"
"Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw" "He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate"
"I'm afraid they've left their legs at home"
"Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard"
"I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help"
"There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch." - Ron lauds Gordon Strachan, 39.
"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat"
"I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better."
World Cup Specials
"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
"I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish" - Ian St John
"The Croatians don't play well without the ball" - Barry Venison
"It had to go in, but it didn't" - Peter Drury
"That's lifted the crowd up into the air" - Barry Davies
"He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss." - Bobby Robson
Kevin Keegan - enough said...
"The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game"
"Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders"
"Only one team can win this game - and that team is England" (closely followed by Brian's: "But wait a minute, here's Dan Petrescu...................!")
"Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him..."
"Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice."
"Sometimes there are too many generals and not enough, er, people waving to the generals as they, er, walk past."
A mixed bag...
"Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams..." - Morton fans taunting the Rangers keeper after he had been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia.
"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 League Cup QF, 1992.
"Tell the German to get his a** up front. We don't pay a million for a guy to hang around in defence." - NY Cosmos executive, on Beckenbauer's positioning.
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" - George Best.
"If we played like that every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent" - Bryan Robson, Man U, 1990.
"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
"Football today, it's like a game of chess. It's all about money." - NEWCASTLE UNITED FAN, Radio 5 Live
"I'm not a believer in luck..... but I do believe you need it." - ALAN BALL
"Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different." - TREVOR BROOKING
"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
"What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal." - JIMMY HILL
"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
"John Harkes going to Sheffield, Wednesday." - New York Post (1993)
"If there weren't such a thing as football, we'd all be frustrated footballers." - Mick Lyons
"He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head" - Derek Johnstone, BBC TV Scotland (1994)
"The crowd think that Todd handled the ball.... they must have seen something that nobody else did" - Barry Davies (1975)
"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel" - Stuart Pearce (1992)
"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
"Why didn't you just belt it son?" - Gareth Southgate's mother reflects publicly on her son's penalty miss
"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
"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
"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
"The referee was booking everyone. I thought he was filling in his lottery numbers" - Ian Wright
"Asking Ruud Gullit to perform in this sort of match is like asking Kiri te Kanawa to jam with the Spice Girls" - 5 Live's Pat Murphy on the lousy pitch at Derby and the ill-tempered nature of the game
"Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem" (Howard Wilkinson)
After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: "We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought" (Bobby Robson)
On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy: "It was like being in a foreign country" (Ian Rush)
"Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play" (Peter Lorenzo)
"We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised" (Ian McNail)
"Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales" (Ron Greenwood)
"A brain scan revealed that Andrew Caddick is not suffering from stress fracture of the shin" (Jo Sheldon)
"The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation" (Ron Pickering)
"That's inches away from being millimetre perfect" (Ted Lowe)
"Bobby Gould thinks I'm trying to stab him in the back. In fact I'm right behind him" (Stuart Pearson)
"The new West Stand casts a giant shadow over the entire pitch, even on a sunny day." CHRIS JONES, Evening Standard
"What will you do when you leave football, Jack - will you stay in football?" STUART HALL, Radio 5 Live
"Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot." RAY WILKINS, BBC1
"I've got a gut feeling in my stomach..." ALAN SUGAR, BBC1
"Johnson has revelled in the 'hole' behind Dwight Yorke..." Carling FA Premiership WWW Page
"An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal." DAVE BASSETT, Sky Sports
"Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals." PETER WITHE, Radio 5 Live
"You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals." ALAN GREEN, Radio 5 Live
"What's it like being in Bethlehem, the place where Christmas began? I suppose it's like seeing Ian Wright at Arsenal...." SIMON FANSHAWE, Talk Radio
"What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio"-Gerry Francis
"And we all know that in football if you stand still you go backwards..." PETER REID, Tyne Tees Sport Special
"The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes." STEVE COPPELL, Radio 5 Live
"The lads really ran their socks into the ground." ALEX FERGUSON
"Brian Laudrup wasn't just facing one defender - he was facing one at the front and one at the back as well." TREVOR STEVEN, STV
"It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday." Radio 5 Live
"...but Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals." TONY GUBBA, BBC Match of the Day
"He's an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side." GARY LINEKER, BBC
"We say `educated left foot'... of course, there are many players with educated right foots." RON JONES, Radio 5 Live
"That's twice now he [Terry Phelan] has got between himself and the goal." BRIAN MARWOOD, Radio 5 Live
"We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps." BRUCE RIOCH, ITV
"... and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a ball of string..." IAN DARKE, Radio 5
David Pleat during the United States' game against Iran: "He had to cut back inside onto his left foot because he literally hasn't got a right foot."
Desmond Lynam: "Well, you gave the horse a wonderful ride, everybody saw that"
"To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch." - Ruud Gullit
"Ardiles strokes the ball like it is part of his own anatomy." - Jimmy Magee, RTE
"We'll still be happy if we lose. The game's on at the same time as the Beer Festival" - Noel O' Mahony, Cork City boss before the game in Munich
"I'd like to play for an Italian club , like Barcelona" - Mark Draper (Aston Villa)
Richard Keys: "Ooh! that's a serious injury, isn't it Alan?"
Alan Shearer: "Well I dunno, depends if its serious..."
(Sky Sports 11/5/03)
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WHAT DO FOOTBALLERS EAT? |
| Date: 01/02/08 |
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Professional footballers have to be disciplined with their food. They can have a slap-up meal or a treat now and again, but most of the time they avoid eating rubbish. A healthy diet for a professional footballer will contain plenty of carbs (carbohydrates) together with fruit 'n' vegetables and protein.
Below is a typical example of what a professional footballer would eat while in training:
BREAKFAST
Cereal, half a pint of skimmed milk, bread and fruit preserves. Orange or other fruit juice.
LUNCH
A meal high in complex carbohydrates with a small intake of protein. Chicken with rice or jacket potato and green vegetables. Pasta is also popular. This will be followed by fruit with an isotonic drink. if players are training in the afternoon they will eat smaller portions but the meal will still be based around carbohydrates.
EVENING MEAL
As with lunch, the evening meal should be made up of foods high in carbohydrates. This meal should also contain protein too. Fish and chicken with rice, boiled potatoes, vegetables or pasta are all popular.
KEEPING IT BALANCED
Most top clubs employ dietitians to ensure that their players eat a 'balanced diet'. To ensure that your performance is at its peak, you're going to need keep a balance between carbs, fats and proteins, and try to avoid the junk stuff.
Protein sources are: Meat, Fish, Cheese, Eggs, Soya.
Carbohydrate sources are: Potatoes, Whole Grain Products, Rice, Pasta, Dried fruit, Starchy Food.
Fat sources are: Milk Products, Fish, Meat.
REFUELING AFTER THE MATCH
Footballers' glycogen levels can be down as much as 75 per cent after a game and those levels have to be restored to normal as soon as possible. You have two to five hours to replace your glycogen stores after a game and it is crucial that you eat the right things. Try to eat plenty of, you guest it, carbs after the game; eating junk food will undo your pre-match food preparation.
FLUIDS
The human body is made up of 80 per cent fluid. Some of this fluid is lost every time you exercise. To keep healthy and fit fluids must be replaced. Footballers should drink at least half a litre of water before and after a warm-up. It is also a good idea to consume an isotonic drink before playing a game. Tea, coffee, and any drinks containing caffeine should be avoided.
ISOTONIC DRINKS
Isotonic drinks are easily absorbed into the blood stream and provide quicker rehydration than water. There are many specially designed isotonic drinks on the market, but a simple isotonic solution can be made by mixing equal quantities of fruit juice and water.
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