Quotes of the Week #9

"With the exception of one time, when (Joey) Barton tried to hack me down, players are not 'evil'."
Samir Nasri

"It's hard working under the current restrictions - as Rafa Benitez found out over the last couple of years and as Roy has found out - of a club that's got no money -and is losing £110,000 a day. It's pretty difficult."
John Aldridge

"Having watched it again I can see that it looks horrific and realise that it was a deserved red card."
Karl Henry. Watched it again? It was the most blatant red card ever. Were you not sure at the time?

"That birdie on the 16th will live in my memory and live in all our memories for many, many years to come."
Colin Montgomerie

"I love team golf, I love match play and I love competing"
Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter

"We were disappointed with the performance (of the raingear), but we just fixed it. We went out and bought more."
Corey Pavin after it turned out the USA Ryder Cup team's waterproofs weren't waterproof!

CHANTS OF THE WEEK

‘Its all gone quiet over there’

‘Is that all you take away’
Wrexham fans to the empty away end as Histon took 0 fans away with them

MAN OF THE WEEK

Peter Storrie – refusing to discuss the £87k he was paid by Portsmouth's administrators for five months' consultancy: "I don't talk to the press any more, I've finished with all that." Last time Storrie did discuss his income – March, when administrators made 85 staff redundant. Storrie said he was "sick and tired" of claims he was overpaid as the debt hit £135m, with his 2009 package (£600k basic, £500k bonus, plus £3,000 for a win) "very reasonable". Storrie's wife told critics to back off: "The only thing Peter is guilty of is trying to be a hero. We've been living a nightmare."

JACK WARNER NEWS

New last week from Jack Warner: inaugurates a new academy in Jamaica paid for by a Fifa grant. Jack says Fifa are devoted to wealth redistribution for disadvantaged nations as part of a commitment to "equity and equality" in football. Fifa's grant to the centre: £250k. Amount paid in "bribes and kickbacks" to Fifa executives and contacts by Fifa's collapsed marketing agency up to 2001: £66m.

GENEROUS FIFA

£16k: amount Fifa will donate to former Togo goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale, left unable to walk after being shot at the Africa Cup of Nations in January. Sepp told Obilale, who owes over £100k in medical bills: "I wish you a lot of courage". (£170k: Bonuses paid by Sepp to all 208 Fifa associations in June ahead of next year's Fifa elections. "Call it a gift!" said Sepp. "We are a united and happy football family!")

AWARD OF THE WEEK

Former Fifa vice-president Viacheslav Koloskov, in Asunción to lobby Fifa executive Nicolás Leoz for Russia's 2018 bid. Leoz presented Koloskov with an award for "services to football and its principles". (Principles: 2000 – Leoz named in court as taking £85k in bribes; 2002 – Koloskov given an unauthorised £65k payment from Sepp to cover "personal expenses". Sepp: "I reject all allegations of corruption.")

BULLSHITTER OF THE WEEK

Thursday: Milan Mandaric, Leicester, tells the press to back off Paulo Sousa: "We can't turn things upside down now, for goodness sake. We can't turn around now and say Paulo needs to go. Now is the time for us to show how strong we are together, how united we are behind our manager and give him a chance. It is a difficult time but it is time to be united and not to listen to speculation in the media. It is as simple as that."
Friday: Sacks him

IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS

• £142m: The new annual Premier League "solidarity payment" split between Football League clubs – proving "Premier League clubs take their responsibility for all levels of the game very seriously."
• £133m: Man City's wage bill

Thanks again to 'Said & Done' from the Observer for these

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