Another week of verbal sparring sees Mark Hughes and Arsene Wenger swing handbags.
Who's been saying what in a sporting week of verbal sparring
Another week of verbal sparring sees Mark Hughes and Arsene Wenger swing handbags wildly at Eastlands, Tiger Woods in all sorts of trouble over in Florida and closer to home, Liam Brady brands Sepp Blatter an "embarrassment" as he kisses goodbye to Ireland's World Cup dream.
"You have to be gracious when you win and gracious in defeat and maybe Arsene wasn't too gracious but I can understand it, maybe he's used to winning games and when he does get beat sometimes he doesn't know how to behave."
Mark Hughes is secretly delighted to be snubbed by Arsene Wenger after his side's 3-0 rout of Arsenal.
Wenger responded with: "I think I have nothing to say. I am free to shake hands with whom I want" before adding "it's my party and I'll cry if I want to."
"I don't care who you are, you will try and get as many advantages as you possibly can but in my view, you can do whatever you want, say whatever you like during the game but after the game, you should shake hands - even if you don't particularly mean it. I don't think that is particularly good on Arsene's part, and I think he has done it before."
Gary Megson nails his colours to the North West mast.
"Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media has become an absolute monster." If you'd like to comment on
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"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behaviour my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behaviour and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone."
Tiger Woods has a week to forget. Bet he could do with a cocktail.
"Ireland asked very humbly whether they could be team number 33."
Sepp Blatter catches the Irish trying to get to South Africa via Fabio Capello's luggage.
"Now I think my country deserves a bit more recognition from Blatter and the way he presented it to the press conference in South Africa yesterday. I think the man is a bit of a loose cannon. I think he is an embarrassment to Fifa."
Liam Brady puts the final touches on his Blatter voodoo doll.
"The replay. I'll do it when you want on a PlayStation." QOTW regular
Patrice Evra is decidedly less het up about the matter than poor Liam.
"I'm not one for blowing my trumpet but: most successful manager in the club's
history; got them in the SPL, kept them there; won the Challenge Cup; produced many a young player; Scottish Cup final; two CIS Cup finals; Europe. In fact, next time I go through there, I'll have to stop to polish the statue they're going to have to build of me." Hibernian boss
John Hughes graduates from the Jose Mourinho school of management.
Talking of our old friend in Italy,
Jose is loving the media even less than Pulis: "When they vote for the coach of the year it doesn't seem that I'll win. Perhaps I'll even be last, or perhaps I'll have to vote for myself to get a vote."
"But I don't believe Chelsea played against 11 babies or bad players. I believe in my team and I would never say anything bad about Chelsea."
Denilson defends his Arsenal team-mates before lights-out.
"Players stagnate if they stay at clubs too long, especially if they're not in and around the team every week, you've got to keep moving it on."
Tony Mowbray has a number of his Celtic squad looking over their shoulders.
"We know he is a top-class player and we want to do the best for him and the team; but the best for the player and the team sometimes means he cannot play."
Rafa Benitez prepares Alberto Aquilani for a life of splinters.
"This fight has got nothing to do with our different religions. My job is to win and to kick Amir's ass."
Dmitriy Salita brings up the dinner party subject you're supposed to avoid.
"I really think I am going to take this guy out. The fight is not going to go the full distance."
Amir Khan comes out fighting.
"We decided to do it last night. He (Phil Brown) took it well. It was a bit of banter to do it if we scored a goal, and we agreed that whoever scored an equaliser or winning goal had to be the one who did the pointing. I think Paul McShane will be the one to take the flak for it."
Jimmy Bullard explains the thinking behind arguably the decade's best celebration.
"It was first class, well planned, well thought out and choreographed by a real character of the game. If it has laid the ghost of Eastlands last year then so be it." Even
Phil Brown could raise a smile. Before fining Bullard in private.
"So we get beat by Wigan and to make matters worse my mum gets racially abused by a SUNDERLAND fan. I won't stand for that."
Darren Bent on Twitter.
"I think we have to be realistic. At the moment we're out of the title race, but we will keep trying to get back in it."
Steven Gerrard reaches for the Prozac.
"For me, Anfield is the best place in England. I hope to be here for a long time and if my daughter speaks English and Scouse, I will be proud. This is my home and it helps that I have learned the language. Have I picked up any Scouse? Deffo! I am picking up words all the time."
Fernando Torres gets carried away by November's Tacheback campaign.
"What shocked me most wasn't the handball...[it] was that at the end of the match, in front of the TV cameras, this player went and sat down next to an Irish player to console him, even though he'd screwed them three minutes earlier. If I'd been Irish, he wouldn't have lasted three seconds...[Domenech is] the worst coach in French football since Louis XVI...If it was up to me, I'd put Laurent Blanc in charge."
Eric Cantona comes out of retirement to shoot from the hip.
