In light of his death today, I thought it would nice to honour the great man with a thread of favourite Colemanballs. It's a bit like nominating your favourite song really - there are so many, how do you chose? Neither of my two all-time favourites are actually down to him - 1) Irish commentator George Hamilton's "He’s pulling him off. The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!” 2) Anita Lonsborough's "It's obvious these Russian swimmers are determined to do well on American soil" Anyone else?
And the line-up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.
We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.
“Don’t tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let’s just have another look at Italy’s winning goal.”
“And here’s Moses Kiptanui – the 19-year-old Kenyan who turned 20 a few weeks ago.”
And then there were these gems from snooker commentator Ted Lowe: For those of you watching who do not have television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2. Steve is going for the pink ball - and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.
Along similar lines to the second one, is a quote from John Motson, "for those watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all yellow".