Most inappropriate ever sporting quote

[Tooting Gull]

Yes, they're a bit gutted after France. But this [from the SMH web site]?

Veteran All Black hooker Anton Oliver aptly summed it up. "The feeling in the [New Zealand] shed is like no man's land. There's a sort of desolate decay and the smell of death," he said.

So there you have it. The All Blacks' premature World Cup exit is the same as the trenches in World War I.

 

[unnameable]

David Coleman once described former Man City and Everton midfielder, Asa Hartford (who had a hole in his heart), as a "whole-hearted player".

 

[Tooting Gull]

Also classic Australian newspaper tactics - after their boys get bombed out, turn the spotlight on the Kiwis...we in this country tend to lambast losing teams, Australia pretend it never happened and talk about swimming for a week instead.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Someone remind me of the protagonists on this one:

Presenter (on asking a black pundit about the prospects for the German team in the world cup)

"what about this Ruminegger then?"

Black pundit:

"What rumour?"

 

[Cian]

Also classic Australian newspaper tactics - after their boys get bombed out, turn the spotlight on the Kiwis...we in this country tend to lambast losing teams, Australia pretend it never happened and talk about swimming for a week instead.

Theres a play thats quite popular here about the time Munster beat New Zealand 12-0 in an exhibition game; it was MASSIVELY popular when touring Australia

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

The commentator on BBC Radio Derby in late September 2001 who described a fouled player as going down "like the Twin Towers, only less spectacularly"

 

[medicine man]

The commentator at Valley Parade after Bradford had scored who announced the striker had "really set the crowd alight"

It was a "did I hear what I thought I heard" moment.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Ray Stubbs on BBC radio's 5 Live '606' this evening...

"Whilst he was at the FA, Sven had more than his fair share of knockers..."

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Someone remind me of the protagonists on this one:

Presenter (on asking a black pundit about the prospects for the German team in the world cup)

"what about this Ruminegger then?"

Black pundit:

"What rumour?"

That one never happened. It was an old joke featuring Jimmy Hill and Garth Crooks.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Ray Stubbs on BBC radio's 5 Live '606' this evening...

"Whilst he was at the FA, Sven had more than his fair share of knockers..."

*guffaw*

Stubbsy. Legend. And heir to the Bob Wilson trophy.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

"The batsman's holding the bowler's penis"

 

[sams dad]

"The batsman's holding the bowler's penis"

The quote was:
The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey

 

[Wozza]

Mike Gatting, live on Sky, on Flintoff's Ashes celebrations: "It's not like there were rapes or anything".

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The quote was:
The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey

:thud:

 

[Bry Nylon]

Mike Gatting, live on Sky, on Flintoff's Ashes celebrations: "It's not like there were rapes or anything".

*winces*

....straight out of the 'David Brent' school of commentary, that one.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

That one never happened. It was an old joke featuring Jimmy Hill and Garth Crooks.

Don't know why multi-quote doesn't work for me but I beg to differ.

This did happen and it was Motson interviewing Garth Crooks after Spurs had just played a German team (Bayern?) for whom Karl-Heinz Rumminigge (sp?) had starred. Crooks was a Spurs player.

I nearly choked at hearing this quite innocent question and how Crooks replied. The interview would not have been showed live so I could well believe that it may have been something Crooks 'set up' with Motson feeding the line.