Posts Tagged ‘Colemanballs’

The second round of Colemanballs, it’s a game of two halves!

Mike Hallett on Sky Sports, discussing snooker during a match where Steve Davis kept missing easy pots “Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis’s misses every chance he gets.”

The first batch of Colemanballs

“Colemanballs” is a term coined by Private Eye magazine to describe verbal gaffes made by sports commentators. It comes from the surname of retired BBC broadcaster David Coleman and the suffix -balls, as in to balls up.