Arsenal and Manchester City continue to row, while Fabio Capello displays his romantic side.
Whose mouth has made the news this week?
The past seven days in football has seen more mud thrown than Andre and Price could dream of. Manchester City and Arsenal have dominated as the tit-for-tat rivalry of Emmanuel Adebayor and Mark Hughes versus Robin van Persie and Arsene Wenger rumbles on, while Fabio Capello has revealed his romantic side.
"I do feel lucky that I have not suffered a greater injury. The contact was only centimetres from my eye. I have not received an apology from him, there were no words exchanged afterwards. He had his own agenda today and that is bad for football. It's bad for the game we all love." - Van Persie is disappointed after receiving a set of studs to the face on his reunion with former team-mate Adebayor.
"After the game I saw him and said sorry but he didn't even want to speak to me." - Ex-Arsenal man Adebayor seems surprised when receiving the cold shoulder from a blood-stained Van Persie.
"It was silly to run up in front of the Arsenal fans. But these people have been insulting me all game. Even in the warm-up they were insulting me. They were saying things that are not nice to hear, personal things." - 'But' is the magic word as Adebayor maintains his 100 metre sprint trial/celebration was not premeditated...
"I didn't plan it, not at all. I didn't even know that I would score. The way things were going from the warm-up, at the end it came into my head." - Methinks the City striker doth protest too much. Adebayor sticks to his guns and had
definitely not been stewing for 80 minutes.
"Emmanuel Adebayor sustained a tremendous amount of personal abuse from the kick-off but strongly maintains that there was no malice intended in the challenge on Robin van Persie and apologised to him when he hugged him on leaving the field of play at the end of the game." - City boss Hughes continues the party line.
"You ask 100 people, 99 will say it is very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes." - Wenger hints that his opposite number might not be a wise choice if ever selected for jury duty as the Adebayor-Van Persie row rages.
"Manchester City announce that both the club and Emmanuel Adebayor have reluctantly accepted the violent conduct charge laid by the Football Association in the wake of the victory over Arsenal." - What?!? No appeal?!? The challenge on Van Persie then appears to be a fair cop.
"If I had to choose between a year without love or a year coaching in Italy's second division, I would make the obvious choice, a season in Serie B." - England boss Fabio Capello (or should that be Peter Stringfellow?) displays his affection for wife Laura, while also giving Salernitana fans everywhere reason for optimism.
"It's not celebrating a goal that causes riots, it's idiots who want to start riots. If I had been standing there and we had been giving him grief all game and he did that, I would probably say, 'Fair play.' " - Tottenham boss 'Arry Redknapp gives his opinion.
"There is nothing like this event. It is a different beast due to the pressure and all that stuff." - Great Britain's Davis Cup team captain John Lloyd. Stop me if I'm getting too technical.
"I think we need to sit down and speak to him as to the reasons he's done this - and we'll then make an informed decision about what that means to his availability for England, going forward." - Andrew Strauss obviously does not believe that watching the one-day cricketers go 5-0 down against Australia is sufficient explanation for Andrew Flintoff rejecting a central contract. Who wouldn't want to play in such a successful team?
"I think we can still pull this out of the fire. England always respond well when we are down." - Ravi Bopara remains positive after going 3-0 down. Errr?
"I'm probably the greatest amateur boxer ever from Britain and won two national championships, a Commonwealth championship and am an Olympic champion." - Audley Harrison does not lack confidence.
"It was one of those days that kind of built upon itself" - Tiger Woods is contrastingly modest after a course-record 62 at Cog Hill.
"It feels like I've been the sole one responsible for losing the Tri-Nations." - New Zealand winger Joe Rokocoko champions the, 'There's no 'i' in team' philosophy.
"I was just trying to save the team. It's my duty. That's the reason I've finished." - Former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore falls on his sword.
"I've never been foot faulted (all year) and then suddenly in this tournament they keep calling foot faults. I'm not going to sit here and make an excuse. If I foot fault, I did. It is what it is and that's basically all it was." - Serena Williams is a little frustrated in the US Open.
"Why do I want to be in the business when you're getting robbed? At least Dick Turpin has a mask on when he robs you." - Frank Maloney. Stand and deliver.
