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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.

• "Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand." (Ted Lowe)
• And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago" (David Coleman)
• "Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem" (Howard Wilkinson)
• "Its a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs" (David Coleman)
• "We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite" (Murray Walker)
• "After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: "We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought" (Bobby Robson)
• "And with an alphabetical irony, Nigeria follows New Zealand" (David Coleman)
• On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy: "It was like being in a foreign country" (Ian Rush)
• "Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play" (Peter Lorenzo)
• "We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised" (Ian McNail)
• "I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat" (Ron Atkinson)
• "I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost" (Frank Bruno)
• "There's going to be a real ding-dong when the bell goes." (David Coleman)
• "There is Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people" (David Coleman)
• "The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical" (Murray Walker)
• "I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel" (Stuart Pearce)
• "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father" (Greg Norman)
• "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of hem serious" (Alan Minter)
• "Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running" (Ron Pickering)
• "Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansel. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers" (Murray Walker)
• "Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales" (Ron Greenwood)
• "A brain scan revealed that Andrew Caddick is not suffering from stress fracture of the shin" (Jo Sheldon)
• "The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation" (Ron Pickering)
• "That's inches away from being millimetre perfect" (Ted Lowe)
• "Bobby Gould thinks I'm trying to stab him in the back. In fact I'm right behind him" (Stuart Pearson)
• "I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right" (Marlon Starling)
• "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again" (Terry Venables)
• "I can't tell who's leading - It's either Oxford or Cambridge" (John Snagge - Boat Race)
• "The Queen's Park Oval, exactly as its name suggests - absolutely round." (Tony Cozier)