Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day

Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.

That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

He went through a non-existant gap.

Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red.

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.