"Charlton will stay up because they have stuck with the same team who went down."

- Alex Ferguson. We know what he means, but . . .

"When we won he was fantastic but when we were losing he was not the sort of guy you wanted in the trenches. The first thing you would do was shoot him because you knew he would shoot you."

- Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson reminisces lovingly about Fabrizio Ravanelli's days at the club.

"We have to be very attentive to these episodes."

- Inter Milan coach Marco Tardelli's oddly restrained response to the team bus being hit by a Molotov cocktail thrown by a Parma fan last week.

"Alan's only a baby at 22, but he knows the division and he has bags of experience at this level."

- Graeme Souness talking about Irish midfielder Alan Mahon. Oi David O'Leary? See what you started?

"I would have voted for Figo."

- Who revealed they would have chosen the Portuguese maestro as FIFA World Player of the Year? Um, Figo. Oh Lord it's so hard to be humble.

"They want Tottenham to always be challenging for success and playing in Europe, but why?"

- He may have scored twice on Saturday but Celtic fans might be a bit alarmed to hear of Ramon Vega's failure to understand the lure of silver.