Spark is gone: Fulham owner rounds on Hughes

WORD OF MOUTH (II)

WORD OF MOUTH (II)

Reporter: “What do Inter need to start climbing the table?”

Massimo Moratti (Inter Milan president): “Points.”

– No flies on Massimo.

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“What a strange man Mark Hughes is . . . Fulham is a progressive club with a top manager in Martin Jol, the man we had really wanted when Hughes was appointed . . . when the challenge came, it was not the club but Mark Hughes who lacked the courage and ambition to take on the task of leadership. If people are looking for a flop, they need look no further than the man who has lost his spark.”

– Mohammad Al Fayed’s magnificently-outspoken response.

“I don’t want him banned because we need as many fans as we can get.”

– Oldham mascot Chaddy the Owl’s very generous response after being punched by a supporter. An Oldham supporter, that is.

“That’s when she started insulting me. She was following me with a telephone and a frying pan.”

– Macarena Lemos recalling a run-in with the mother of Lionel Messi when she was out shopping a few years back. Mrs Messi, apparently, didn’t approve of the lingerie model’s relationship with her boy.