In Britain we have a football (soccer) commentator on the BBC who is a national treasure. I give you…John Motson:
“And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction” eh?
“The referee is wearing the same yellow-coloured top as the Slovakian goalkeeper. I’d have thought the UEFA official would have spotted that - but perhaps he’s been deafened by the noise of this crowd.”
“He’s not quite at 110 per cent fitness.”
“For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all yellow strip”
“The World Cup is a truly International event”
“I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war”
“You couldn’t count the number of moves Alan Ball made… I counted four, and possibly five.”
“Oh, that’s good running on the run.”
“It’s a football stadium on the truest sense of the word”
“The unexpected is always likely to happen.”
“And I suppose 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.”
“I know that Gareth Barry has been told by Howard Wilkinson to take a long hard look at these with his left foot.”
“Actually, none of the player are wearing earrings, Kjeldberg, with his contact lenses is the closest we can get”
“I can’t fault Mark Palios too highly”
“Whether that was a penalty or not, the referee thought otherwise.”
“Brazil - they’re so good it’s like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves”
“Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off”
“The goals made such a difference to the way this game went”
“So different from the scenes in 1872, at the cup final none of us can remember”
“I was about to say before something far more interesting interrupted”
“In a sense it’s a one-man show… except that there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.”
Gawd bless 'im.
