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The term " balls " was first associated with Coleman in 1957 when he was at BBC Midlands, Sutton Coldfield, presenting a Saturday night 15-minute roundup of the day's football in the Midlands.

A technical hitch occurred and there was a black-out, but Coleman could be heard calling out to the technician in the studio, " Trust you to make a balls of that.