Ron Atkinson

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I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Cool
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Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
- Ron Atkinson
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Zero-zero is a big score.
- Ron Atkinson
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He must be lightning slow.
- Ron Atkinson
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I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.
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He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.
- Ron Atkinson
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I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.
- Ron Atkinson
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I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Funny
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Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Funny
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I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Funny
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Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Football
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There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Soccer
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You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Football
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You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Football
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Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Balls
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I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Soccer
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He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Soccer
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You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Giving
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One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Soccer
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Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Balls
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Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: England
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They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Wise
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For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Fields
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Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Football
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All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Soccer
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They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Soccer
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They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: England
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I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Fire
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Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Football
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Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Football
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At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Giving
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We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad lib.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Night
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There's a few tired limbs in the blue legs.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Tired
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There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Player
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Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Wings
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They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Balls
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Their strength is their strength.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: England
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Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Lucky
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Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Team
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How are they defensively, attacking-wise?
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Wise
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He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Afternoon
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Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Two
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Yordi circumnavigated Ledley King there.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Kings
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Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Soccer
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His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Fire
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He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Player
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They've come out at half time and gone bang.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Bangs
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Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: Two
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You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.
- Ron Atkinson
Collection: England