Football: OffSIDE: they said WHAT?

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Dec 8, 2002

"There's no reason that, in time, we can't challenge for the league title." Leeds defender Danny Mills. First Division title, Danny?

"Too raw...appalling first touch." Manchester United scouts' verdict on Thierry Henry, as a teenager, revealed this week by United's youth academy chief Les Kershaw.

"I was elected and called upon for a reason." Geoff Thompson on God's involvment in his rise to the post of FA chairman.

"Snowflakes are falling all around. Sleeping children, make no sound. Rudolph's frosty breath leaves patterns in the sky. It's Christmas, let's give love a try." Big Ron Atkinson. From his single, It's Christmas, Let's Give Love a Try.

"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's striketravelled at the speed of light," BBC Sport. At 299,792,458 metres per

second? Not even Fergie would claim that. "Apart from the top four the Premiership is dog eat dog, and we've just eaten one of the dogs." Manchester City boss Kevin Keegan after his side had beaten Bolton.

"The Premiership

is a financial monster where clubs are spending money they haven't got to get there and spending money they still haven't got to stay

there." Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association.