Portsmouth's mounting debts have dominated the headlines, with Andrew Andronikou quite the star.
Who's been saying what in a sporting week of verbal sparring
As every week passes the depth of Portsmouth's debt becomes ever more transparent, with Andrew Andronikou establishing himself as the world's first rock and roll administrator in the process. QOTW would never suggest Andronikou enjoys the limelight but it's fair to say he wouldn't turn down a spot on
Celebrity Administrator! Get me out of the South Coast! Elsewhere, Arsene's been acting a bit mardy, Mick's gone full frontal and David Pleat's been David Pleat.
"If you're saying the club owes £122m, yes it does." Portsmouth administrator
Andronikou reveals the true, jaw dropping extent, of the club's debt.
"They suddenly had a new owner who was supposed to be one of the richest men in the world and it was 'Oh, we're going to be up there challenging with Man City'. Then all of a sudden, when he was buying hamburgers off the stall outside, they thought maybe he wasn't as rich as they first thought."
Harry Redknapp smelt something fishy when Sulaiman Al Fahim showed a preference for chips over caviar.
"I don't slag people off. If I do, I tend to do it right in someone's eye, not in the paper or the television. I'm no faceless wonder. If you get it off me, you get it full frontal." Wolves boss
Mick McCarthy won't slag you off in the paper - he'll just whip out his....
"If I were him, I'd have left Mario (Balotelli) alone, but Materazzi was attacking him and I was stunned. If Materazzi had attacked me like that, I would've decked him in a second!" Tough guy
Zlatan Ibrahimovic adjusts his hairband before putting his dukes up to Marco Materazzi.
"I don't know who will win the title now - and I don't care."
Arsene Wenger reacts with good grace to Arsenal's late collapse at Wigan, before launching into an impromptu rendition of Lesley Gore's 'It's my Party' (and I'll cry if I want to...You would cry too if it happened to you).
"Trust me, we'll have a response at Birmingham. I'd rather be a lion for a day
than a sheep for the rest of the season, for sure."
Iain Dowie mixes his metaphors after Hull City's 4-1 defeat at home to Burnley. Looks as though he'd rather be a lion or a sheep than a Premier League manager too...
"He'll find himself on Soccer AM next week, that's for sure."
Ashley Williams sees the funny side after Swansea team-mate Shefki Kuqi missed an open goal against Barnsley.
"I was just standing still and he came into my face."
Morten Gamst Pedersen after being poked by Mikel Arteta.
"I don't think they are going to rush out and buy the Financial Times."
Alex McLeish plays down fears his players will be affected by owner Carson Yeung's financial dispute with investment bank Seymour Pierce.
"Next year, I won't bring my watch - in case they steal that as well." Valencia goalkeeper
Cesar laments the match officials after his side were denied a late penalty at Atletico Madrid.
"For the first nine holes I thought I was playing with a square ball."
Sandy Lyle concedes he had a bit of a mare in the second round of the US Masters after finishing on 86.
"Cesc has a place for Arsenal in his heart, but he has Barcelona in his blood. I don't know when, but I expect him to be my Barcelona team-mate at some point."
Lionel Messi adds further fuel to football's most tiresome Ménage à trois.
"Some personalities, including Franck Ribery and other players, have a relationship with someone close to the organiser of an escort girl network. It's only because of this relationship that they have been heard by police." Bayen Munich's
Ribery has a week to forget.
"I just didn't know what to do. I ran one way, then another, looking for my dad. All of a sudden they were kicking off. I'd like to think it will be up there when it comes to goal of the season. I hope my mum taped it." Spurs starlet
Danny Rose hopes his mum set the Betamax after his wonder strike in the North London derby.
"I don't believe a contract means anything these days. If you are offered £100,000 a week to go to another club you go, whatever your contract says."
Robbie Savage confirms football's worst kept secret: loyalty in the modern game is dead.
"I know Drogba is a world-class player, but he could play world-class volleyball on that evidence."
Owen Coyle is enraged after Didier Drogba palms the ball out of the air, bounces it a couple of times before spiking it to safety in Chelsea's 1-0 win over Bolton. All without conceding a penalty.
"I would like to think it is true when people say it is good news, but my experience is that it is better to wait and see."
Rafa Benitez admits it could be a case of 'better the devil you know' after Liverpool were put up for sale by their beleaguered American owners.
"In my personal opinion the decisions made by Mr Duffen at that point were extremely short-sighted and lacking in business sense and specific football knowledge. He seems, albeit with the advantage of hindsight, to have had no understanding of the industry, Hull City AFC or the city of Hull itself." Hull City chairman
Adam Pearson shoots from the lip when deriding his predecessor Paul Duffen's tenure at the KC.
"I don't think there's any friction, but it's not all smiles and happiness. It's a big change, so it affects all of us. He's happy, busy doing what he's doing."
Lewis Hamilton claims his old man is probably delighted, in all likelihood, about being sacked as his manager.
"When I shout, a lot people ask me if that was why I lost. If I don't say anything and lose, people say I'm flat. Fact is, I was rubbish."
Andy Murray makes no excuses after losing in straight sets to Philipp Kohlschreiber.
"It is unthinkable that I would score a goal that will send West Ham to relegation. Their supporters feel football. They are passionate. They invested great support in me. I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career. I have some unfinished business there."
Carlos Tevez lines up an emotional return/one last pay day in the East End.
"I know Modric's dentist. And his dentist thinks he's a super, super guy."
David Pleat. Some things don't need an explanation.
"The way I see the whole situation is that Charles has been badly advised, and he's made a naive mistake."
Roberto Martinez substitutes 'naive' for 'stupid beyond belief' after Charles N'Zogbia was arrested at Sale driving test centre on suspicion of fraud by false representation.
"He put youths who hadn't even trained with us before on the bench, along with
me. I was the nanny."
Jerome Rothen calls time on his Rangers career after being asked to the change the youth team's nappies.
