Football Quotes of the Week

by The Rumor Monger
(Cyberspace)

The best football quotes of the week;

"I'm not suited to Bolton or Blackburn. I would be more suited to Inter Milan or Real Madrid. It wouldn't be a problem for me to go and manage those clubs. I would win the double or the league every time. Give me Manchester United or Chelsea, it would be the same, no problem."
Sam Allardyce talks up his management credentials (he later admitted it was tongue in cheek).

"Arsene has most of the media in his pocket now and is almost - almost - affecting the officials so that you can't tackle an Arsenal player."
Allardyce continues his verbal spat with Arsene Wenger

"I think I have two skins, sometimes three. I have my own skin, then I have a rhino skin and then sometimes I put an elephant skin over that."
Allardyce again, now we know why he's called Big Sam

"Until we win that trophy I'm not going to die a happy man. That's a fact. I will never give up hope of winning that trophy. I owe it to every Chelsea fan because of what happened in the final in Moscow. I let the fans down by missing that penalty."
John Terry still can't get over that penalty miss in Moscow.

"He (Lehmann) belongs in the Muppet Show, on the couch or in a mental institution."
Tim Wiese confirms what we always knew about Jens Lehmann.

"All these people who pretend to support Leeds and come from Doncaster, it's quite unbelievable. If you are from Doncaster you should support Doncaster Rovers! We're better than Leeds anyway!"
Doncaster chairman John Ryan stirs it up ahead of the Yorkshire derby.

"I spoke to him and asked, in a jocular way, if we were still going to be on speaking terms. At least he didn't put the phone down on me, but there was some cutting remark I can't quite remember."
Roy Hodgson on his relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson since becoming Liverpool manager.

"The ref was on at me the whole time. I don't know what the actual time limit is, how fast you have to get the ball and sprint back and kick it. Then they go and celebrate for 30 minutes in the corner and I go 'How about them time-wasting?' and he booked me. Typical."
Wolves keeper Marcus Hahnemann is not amused by his booking at White Hart Lane.