Quote of the Week

" It will be a long time before I want to get into the Europa Cup. If we ever look like winning the Fair Play League, I'll run on the pitch and tackle someone myself" - Mick McCarthy, and I don't doubt it actually I think he'd rather enjoy it too....

Quote of the day

"He's got more than Ivana Trump shoes him"
Some stellar cerebral punditry from ESPN on William gallas changing his boots in the middle of a match.

Quote of the Week

Its that time again!
"Just crack them curtains and try to do work." Nicky Hayden on  what to do during rain breaks.
"We like to play with each other and like to win games, that is what we try to do. It brings the best out of all of us" Nicklas Bendtner - Arf Arf. No seriously he's talking about football.
"I am happy you're gone, psychic octopus, it's your fault we lost the World Cup" Diego Maradona is unlikely to be quoted in Paul's obituary.
"In the next race I will try to take Dani." We think Valentino meant to say 'overtake'. Or maybe not.
"Some people can't see a priest on a mountain of sugar." We have no idea what Rafael Benitez means

Quote of the Week

Another set of crackers this week folks.
 "It is not God who tackles people, it is players" - Arsene Wenger. Confucius couldn't have put that one better.
"When I tackled him I didn't want to kill him" - Emmanuel Eboue really isn't that kind of guy.
"I've got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger" - Tony Pulis gets bitchy.
 And an absolute gem from Rafa Benitez referring to....erm....who knows...
 "We have a saying in Spanish, which is: 'White liquid in a bottle has to be milk'"

Quote of the Week

Its the return of quote of the week and my my has there been some crackers this week.
"He needs to see a mental doctor." The coach of Sparta Rotterdam referring to leg-breaker Nigel de Jong.
"With the exception of one time, when Barton tried to hack me down, players are not 'evil'" Samir Nasri weighing in on the 'dirty tackling' debate.
"His moves were legal but on the limit, from my point of view. We have seen the way he likes to fight, it happened before with Gibernau, then with Stoner, and now with me. Maybe in the future his rivals will get a little bit mad and we will act like he usually does" Jorge Lorenzo takes issue with Valentino Rossi sticking it to him in Motegi.
"Hahahahahahahahahahaha." Valentino Rossi's unconfirmed response to Jorge.

Sports Quote of the Week

This week three for the price of one.
"You should not have it, you have everything." - Andrei Arshavin (referring to England's World Cup bid)
"I looked at my watch after the sending-off, they were 2-0 up and there was all that time left, and I thought, 'Holy mackerel'. Luckily for me, it was only six." - Ian Holloway (referring to the Arsenal game.)
"I nearly forgot it, I can't believe that. One of the ball-boys had it. Everyone has signed it and I don't think there are any swear words on it." - Theo Walcott (referring to the match ball from the Blackpool game)

Sporting Quote of the week

The inaugural quote of the week comes courtesy of Soccer Saturday's Jeff Stelling (the first of many I sense) with this cracker:
"Ian Holloway once said every dog has its day, well today I want to say WOOF!" (in relation to Blackpool's first Premier league win)