"I have a feeling we'll get Holland, Italy and Norway - call me Mystic Kev."

- Kevin Keegan before yesterday's draw for Euro 2000. England got Germany, Romania and Portugal, which means his crystal ball must be faulty.

"I am a high-profile person and my privacy should be down to me, Andrew Cole, and not to taxi drivers or anyone else who drives me about."

- Andy `Andrew' Cole objecting to the six-month ban from driving he received last week for speeding.

"You'd be surprised how many people think I do it from Italy. I was even refused house insurance because the agent said it was too risky with me being abroad each weekend."

- Channel Four's Italian footballer commentator Peter Brackley. It was revealed last week that he does all his commentaries from a studio in London and has done for the past eight years.

"To many of us, the game has taken a massive blow and this day will be a milestone for football. Probably only when a club's bankers call them and say enough is enough will the game in England come to its senses."

- Tottenham director of football David Pleat on Roy Keane's £50,000-a-week deal with Manchester United.

"We have a good record against Bulgaria . . . in the seventies."

- Gerry Armstrong tries to remain upbeat and confident after Northern Ireland's draw for the 2002 World Cup.