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In the paper "Private Eye" in the UK they have a section called Colemanballs. It has all the cock-ups that TV/radio announcers make and is named after a sports commentator named David Coleman - the master himself.
Note: There is a similar collection at "Sayings and Writings".

• Misc from an e-mail #2  
  "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria....I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing." (Pat Glenn - Weightlifting commentator)
• Misc from an e-mail
  "This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother." (Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator)
• Famous Sporting Quotes
  "I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost" (Frank Bruno)
• NZ's own Murray Mexted
  "Spencer's running across field calling out come inside me, come inside me."
• Private Eye web site
  "And at 7.10 we'll be meeting the WPC fingered by her own police force." Fiona Phillips, GMTV
• Soccer World Cup 1998
  "Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball" - Ian St John
• Large Collection
  Kilroy-Silk: "Did you mean to get pregnant?" Girl: "No. It was a cock-up."
• Think Before You Speak
  Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. (Brooke Shields)
• Soccer Quotes
  "I never make predictions and I never will." (Paul Gascoigne)
• UK Conservative Politicians
  "We are not wholly an island, except geographically." -- John Major
• Murray Walker-isms
  'Unless I'm very much mistaken....I AM very much mistaken!'

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