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commentatorballs "Everyone needs to pull together – not just individually, but collectively"
BRIAN LAWS, BBC Radio Nottingham

"Do that 100 times in training, he'd save that 99 times out of 10!"
GLENN HODDLE, TNT Sports

"I thought he'd miss. Not trying to say I'm like Houdini or anything like that, but I did call it"
RIO FERDINAND, TNT Sports

"[Leicester] would rather have had a full quartet of players on the pitch – 11"
MARTIN KEOWN, BBC1

"History finally arrives in Rome!"
SARA ORCHARD, BBC1

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