“Joe is an outstanding talent, but there are other outstanding talents in that side: Damien Hayes, Kevin Hayes, Ollie Canning and Eoin Lynch all had great games. You don’t win anything with a one-man team.”
– Ballyhale Shamrocks manager Maurice Aylward on the youngest Canning and co after their defeat by a rocket-propelled Portumna last Sunday.
“This guy is small but he has the mental strength of a mountain.”
– ‘The Professor’ Wenger on broken-leg victim Eduardo’s two-goal FA Cup comeback against Cardiff. Which mountain might that be then?
“There’s two scenarios here. It’s an anagram isn’t it? If I get promoted I’m a god and if we don’t I’m a dog.”
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Wolves boss Mick McCarthy knows his three-letter words as well as a few fours.
“I’ve got 10 or 12 assistants whose contracts are up in June. How can a manager lead a project properly if the continuity of his staff is not secure for two or three years?”
– That helpless cratur, Rafael Benitez and his poor army of apostles. Not exactly a dime a dozen either, I’ll bet.
“Ferguson controls everything in this country – these are the facts as everyone knows.”
– The paranoid Spaniard on that well-known Labour supporter. Someone tell yer men in Number 10.
“Yulia superstitiously distrusts hairdressers in London [so] we agreed that I’ll fly over to London when necessary. I’ve changed his style from glamorous Vidal Sassoon to simple ‘streetwise guy’ and I had no complaints from him or Yulia.”
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Arsenal acquisition Andrei Arshavin’s hairdresser. From Russia with lots of mousse
