Alan Coleman get's the credit for the title, but many other Sports Commentators over the years have made some pretty famous gaffs:

"Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem"
(Howard Wilkinson)

"Willie Carson, riding his 180th winner of the season, spent the last two furlongs looking over one shoulder, then another, even between his legs, but there was nothing there to worry him."
(Sporting Life)

"We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite"
(Murray Walker)

"After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: "We didn't underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought"
(Bobby Robson)

On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy: "It was like being in a foreign country"
(Ian Rush)

"Bill Frindal has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator"
(John Arlott)

"Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand"
(Ted Lowe)

"Ah! Isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew"
(Harry Carpenter)

Jimmy Hill: Don't sit on the fence Terry. What chance do you think Germany has of getting through? Terry Venables: I think it's 50-50.

"Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play"
(Peter Lorenzo)

"We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised"
(Ian McNail)

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body"
(Winston Bennett)

"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat"
(Ron Atkinson)

"I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost"
(Frank Bruno)

"Henry Horton's got a funny stance. It looks as if he's shitting on a shooting stick."
(Brian Johnstone)

"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical"
(Murray Walker)

"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel"
(Stuart Pearce)

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
(Greg Norman)

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious"
(Alan Minter)

"The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square"
(Trevor Bailey)

"The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball"
(John Francombe)

"Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running"
(Ron Pickering)

"Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansel. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers"
(Murray Walker)

"Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales"
(Ron Greenwood)

"A brain scan revealed that Andrew Caddick is not suffering from stress fracture of the shin"
(Jo Sheldon)

"The French are not normally a nordic skiing nation"
(Ron Pickering)

"That's inches away from being millimetre perfect"
(Ted Lowe)

"Bobby Gould thinks I'm trying to stab him in the back.  In fact I'm right behind him"
(Stuart Pearson)

"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right"
(Marlon Starling)

"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again"
(Terry Venables)

"I can't tell who's leading - It's either Oxford or Cambridge"
(Jogn Snagge - Boat Race)

"The Queen's Park Oval, exactly as its name suggests – absolutely round."
(Tony Crozier)