“There are worse things to complain about (than racism) . . . so, Mr Evra and Mr Ferdinand, I know you feel insulted. But perhaps in this case you could just put up with it and get on with the game.”
– The Daily Mail’s Steve Doughty, who got a whole heap of flak for his column last week. Just put up with it, Steve.
“We are all Chelsea fans and I can only hope that, on Saturday, we all get together, support this club and beat the crap out of Arsenal.”
– Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck at a meeting with supporters last week. Ooops.
“The Olympic tournament for me is not a real football tournament, for me the Olympics is for track and field basically. If I asked you who won the Olympics 20 years ago you would have problems to tell me.”
– Arsene Wenger, bizarrely unaware that the country that won Olympic football gold 20 years ago was . . . eh.
“No one wants to work for little money, otherwise they would be living on the streets.”
– Samuel Eto’o explaining that he only signed a €30 million-over-three-years contract with Russian club Anzhi to keep a roof over his head. Nice roof, though.
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