John Motson quits Match of the Day after 46 brilliant years and 10 corking one-liners

JOHN MOTSON has quit Match of the Day after 46 years as the star voice on Britain’s flagship football show.

The legend covered ten World Cups, 29 FA Cup finals, ten European Championships and more than 200 England matches and here are his 10 best one-liners.

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• “It’s like they are running around the pitch playing with themselves.”
• “The Czech Republic are coming from the back in more than one way.”
• “Jan Koller and Jaap Stam share a hairstyle, but of course they have no hair.”
• “The World Cup is a truly international event.”
• “It’s Arsenal 0, Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that, the more you’ve got to fancy Everton.”
• “So different from the scenes in 1872, at the cup final none of us can remember.”

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• “It looks like a one-man show here, although there are women involved.”
• “The goals made such a difference to the way this game went.”
• “Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts.  It’s a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.”
• “Whether that was a penalty or not, the referee thought otherwise.”
• “For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all yellow strip.”

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