Issue 1680
commentatorballs “I’m watching through clenched teeth!”
CHRIS BOYDE, ITV4

“What you don’t want to do is try and force a pass through the needle of an eye”
DAVID FLATMAN, ITV4

“That’s half of one and six dozen of the other”
LEE DIXON, ITV1

“We’re about 900 metres higher than Ben Nevis, the world’s highest mountain”
GUY MOWBRAY, BBC1

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