Ron Atkinson England Quotations

His head just disappeared into his shoulders.

They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.

He had acres of time there.

This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

Yordi circumnavigated Ledley King there.

Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.

That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.

There's a snap about Liverpool that just isn't there.

If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

Their strength is their strength.

He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.

...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

...and he extends and grows even bigger than he is. (on Peter Schmeichel)

They are playing above the ground.

Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.

A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it...

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.

Heskey needs to punch his own weight.

Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.

Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save.

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Huddersfield will want to win this one.

They scored too early.

We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad-lib.

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.