"How a player like Kanchelskis would love to have somebody like Litmanen inside him." - Big Ron Atkinson. And that's as much as we have to say on the matter.

Bob Wilson: "What about George Graham's record - seven trophies - that's second only to Sir Alex Ferguson?"

Andy Townsend: "That's right, Bob. George Graham's record is second to none."

"I can't see myself leaving West Ham until we win something." - Joe Cole commits himself to the Londoners for life.

"I was like everyone else, trying to guess who would be in. I had been picking my own squad - but I wasn't in it." - Charlton left back Chris Powell on his surprise inclusion in the England squad.

"Whatever a cross-country skier can do, a player from Bayern Munich can do with a laugh on his face. We are taking warm underwear, liver protectors, gloves, woolly hats and Vaseline. That's enough." - And it was too. Bayern Munich manager Ottmar Hitzfeld revealing the contents of the team's overnight bags for their Champions League trip to Moscow - where they beat Spartak 3-0.