• That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record.
• Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goal.
• For those of you watching who do not have television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2.
• He's 31 this year - last year he was 30.
• He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics so he's used to being out in front.
• We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waltz is 80 seconds behind.
• Linford Christie's got a habit of pulling it out when it matters most.
• The late start is due to the time.
• He's got his hands on his knees and holds his head in despair.
• He's even smaller in real life than he is on the track.
• This could be a repeat of what will happen in the European games next week.
• Here are some names to look forward to - perhaps in the future.
• In the Moscow Olympics Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champions race.
• He just can't believe what's not happening to him.
• One of the great unknown champions because very little is known about him.
• He is accelerating all the time. The last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before that in 62.
• (At the Velodrome) The front wheel crosses the finish line, closely followed by the back wheel.

The very first Coleman Balls quote to grace the pages of CJYFC's website comes from Dave Hockey, the new Under 12's manager and was submitted by Andrew Warren as follows:

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Celebrity Caerleon Players

Jennifer Aniston in a Caerleon shirt

Now there's a thought!!!

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Bubble Wrap (can go on and on and on)

Leisure by W.H. Davies (1871-1940), Newport's Tramp Poet

WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—

No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

Extract from ‘You Knows I Loves You' by Newport rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain

I wanna take you to Mcdonalds with a candle
Girl, it's my love you can't handle
I see you walking on the way home from work
Your Tesco tunic really drives me berserk
I'm for real - it ain't no quirk
I bought you this necklace
It cost me 12 pounds
From Argos, Elizabeth Duke
Maybe you're the skywalker to my luke
The Darth to the Vader
Flip Over the Crossfader
I'll serenade you with a bag of space raiders
Or walkers or smiths or maybe even quavers

“IF” by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
  And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
  And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
  If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

  And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!