"I really like Scholes - he's got great legs."

- Bobby Robson on Manchester United forward Paul Scholes.

"Coventry, in all honesty, never looked like scoring and yet they've ended up with three goals."

- Alex Ferguson after his side's 3-2 defeat last weekend.

"Izzet . . . no, is the answer."

- BBC commentator Barry Davies after Leicester's Muzzy Izzet fires just wide against Everton.

"I was absolutely devastated. For the first time I realised how people in Barrow must have felt when we replaced them."

- Hereford's 1972 FA Cup hero Ronnie Radford on his former team's lost League status after 25 years.

"All I want to do is play for Spurs and score goals. How can I do that when I am being told to do training which makes an injury worse? They simply would not listen to me."

- Les Ferdinand hits out at the training regime of new Tottenham boss Christian Gross.