Sports Speak: The week in quotes

"The kind of thing you would be unhappy about if you were playing park football on a Sunday morning, never mind the Champions…

"The kind of thing you would be unhappy about if you were playing park football on a Sunday morning, never mind the Champions League."

- Roy Keane on his back pass which allowed Gabriel Batistuta score Fiorentina's opening goal against United on Wednesday.

"It's a little strange when you hear other great players talk like they're running for second."

- Greg Norman trying to understand the mental edge being given to the in-form Tiger Woods.

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"You can have all the undersoil heating you want, but when the temperature drops to -20C there is nothing you can do."

- Owners of the Dynamo Stadium in Moscow explaining the frozen pitch which led to the postponement of Thursday's match against Leeds.

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan is an Irish Times sports journalist writing on athletics