Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was — John Motson Copy Share Image
And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway. — John Motson Copy Share Image
Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. — John Motson Copy Share Image
I do remember once going to Salzburg in Austria. Liverpool were playing a European game there, and they put me in a box behind… — John Motson Copy Share Image
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper. — John Motson Copy Share Image
I just thought my 50th year in the BBC is 2018, and it has to end sometime, and I thought that would be a… — John Motson Copy Share Image
It is now a pleasure to go to any of the Premier League grounds. They are so welcoming, not just to me but to… — John Motson Copy Share Image
I'm not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice does make people sit up and pay… — John Motson Copy Share Image
I have had a wonderful time. I don't think things could have gone any better for me because I was football-mad as a boy,… — John Motson Copy Share Image
Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here. — John Motson Copy Share Image
The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism.… — John Motson Copy Share Image
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