"You've got to question whether players are playing too much football and whether youngsters are being exposed too early."

- Alan Hodson, the FA's head of sports medicine as England and Liverpool's Michael Owen faces another long injury.

"We aren't and don't want to talk about ourselves but that should not be mistaken for a lack of desire."

- Irish back row Kieron Dawson on Ireland's preparation for today's game at Twickenham.

"A fella called Dermot Browne."

- Jamie Osborne, giving evidence at the Old Bailey, names the man who approached him when he was 19 and offered £20,000 to stop two favourites he was riding.