"January was our most successful month of the season - a couple of our games were postponed." -

Fort William supporter Andy Orr. The Highland League team had lost 19 consecutive games since drawing their opening fixture of the 1998-99 season.

"There is still a doubt in my head. January came and I felt I should be enthusiastic for it and I wasn't. I hate standing in Crusheen and the wet league Sundays and the ball slow and fellas rolling over one another like drowsy cattle." -

Ger Loughnane, questioning his own desire to stay on as Clare manager.

"There were no problems from the paint except, I'm told, it made me look a right idiot." -

Keith Wood after his bald head was painted blue and red from the sponsor's pitch logo at Lansdowne Road, in the Five Nations match against France.