"It's real end-to-end stuff, but unfortunately it's all up at Forest's end."

- Sky Sports' reporter Chris Kamara.

"The upshot of it is I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week . . . but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester."

- Stan Collymore redefines the meaning of `transfer request'.

"I've got a book in which I've written down the names of those people who upset me the most. I don't want to name them because I want it to be a surprise when I get them back some day."

- David Beckham revealing that he keeps a `vendetta book' of names of people he feels have wronged him. And there was you thinking he had nothing in common with Jack Charlton.

"After 10 seconds I got an elbow in the face . . . then he thumped me as if I was his worst enemy, it was unbelievable. He took me for nothing, for a crap."

- Zinedine Zidane reminisces fondly about his encounter with Dennis Wise during the recent France v England game.

"All the English were protesting to the referee and Valdano, who had passed me the ball, put his finger to his mouth, saying `ssshhh' as if he were a nurse in a hospital . . . who am I to doubt the honesty of the referee."

- Diego Maradona, full of remorse, in no sense at all, about his `Hand of God' goal against England in the 1986 World Cup (as quoted in his biography I am Diego).