List of Regular Mini-sections in Private Eye - Colemanballs

Colemanballs

Collection of gaffes from radio and TV perpetrated by sports commentators and sportsmen, featuring inconsistencies, mixed metaphors, or pretentious and ludicrous statements, such as "and he's missed the goal by literally a million miles" or "if they played like this every week they wouldn't be so inconsistent". This feature originally specialised in quotes from British sports commentator David Coleman, for whom the column is named, but expanded to quotes from others, notably including Murray Walker. The name of this feature has since spawned derivative terms in unrelated fields such as "Warballs" (spurious references to the September 11, 2001 attacks), "Dianaballs" (overly sentimental references to Diana, Princess of Wales). Any other subject can be covered, as long as it is appropriately suffixed by -balls, such as Tsunamiballs.

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