A game is not won until it is lost.
You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.
Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.
There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.