SPORT REVIEW 2011: TWITTER TANTRUMS: "I will put u asleep within 10 seconds hope u turn up if u don't gonna tell everyone ur scared u little nit. I'll be waiting."– Wayne Rooney, new to Twitter this year, enjoying a bit of friendly banter with a fellow tweeter.
“Geoff miller is a complete knob. He had no clue what he is doing. Fing prick.”
– Hampshire captain Dimitri Mascarenhas’s message to the England selector after being left out of the squad. “I have learnt a great deal about the dangers of social networking sites,” he said when he apologised.
“Ok, it’s obvious the IRB are unjust. Wales get 7 days (rest), we get 3. Unfair treatment, like slavery, like the holocaust, like apartheid.”
– Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu just a touch aggrieved by Samoa’s treatment at the rugby World Cup.
“What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side.”
– The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Rashard Mendenhall on the death of Osama bin Laden. And with that, sports clothing company Champion cancelled their endorsement deal with the player.
“F**k USTA!! They’re full of shit! They have screwed me for the last time! #enoughsaid.”
– “Quite frankly, I’m offended,” said Patrick McEnroe, general manager of player development for the US Tennis Association after this tweet from Donald Young. The player said sorry. Well, sort of: “That tweet was out of character . . . but I’m tired of it. sry about the language, but not the thought behind it.”
I FOUGHT THE LAW
"Don't even look at me. If I see you in the corridor don't even walk past me . . . I get a code violation for expressing who I am, we're in America last time I checked . . . you're totally out of control, you're a hater and you're just unattractive inside."Serena Williams having a slight difference of opinion with umpire Eva Asderaki during her US Open final defeat to Samantha Stosur.
"Maybe it's because I'm black! That's what Ali G says. I don't know . . . You know what, out of six races, I've been to the stewards five times – it's a joke, an absolute frickin' joke."Lewis Hamilton feeling a little bit picked on.
"I would say the referee was a joke but I'd probably get fined for it, so I won't."Gloucester centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu almost holding his tongue after the English Premiership semi-final defeat to Saracens.
"He will look at that when his wife has made him a bacon butty and say **** me, what have I done there?"Spurs manager Harry Redknapp forecasting indigestion for linesman Bob Pollock when he realised he'd got a call wrong.
"The whole country knows that he is the world's worst referee . . . ye know it and we know it. I just don't care, and I don't care if I get in trouble for it."Wexford goalkeeper Anthony Masterson after a disputed point gave Limerick victory in their All-Ireland SFC qualifier. Yes, he got in to trouble for it.
TRIBUTES
"The danger is that people get sucked in by Clive's success in the 2003 World Cup when, in truth, England would have won if a trained chimp had been in charge."Former international Jeff Probyn not overly impressed by talk of Clive Woodward returning to the England setup as performance director.
"The German people would turn up and watch him even if he was taking a dump in the middle of the ring."Boxer David Haye hails Vitali Klitschko's crowd appeal.
"He has been rude and with no education in his behaviour to achieve his objectives. The fact that he wears cashmere sweaters doesn't mean he belongs like a gentleman."Franz Beckenbauer doffs his cap to Jose Mourinho after he won Fifa's Coach of the Year award.
"He should stick to doing what he does best which is building leisure clubs."Andy Murray blows a kiss in the direction of former British Davis Cup coach (and, well, leisure club builder) David Lloyd.
"Wayne Rooney is a vile human. May he die choking in hot dog s**t while his eyes are burned out with lye and skewers are pushed into his ears."Food critic Giles Coren tweets his love for Wazza.
PUNDITRY PEARLS
"Sometimes the pendulum swings both ways."Kevin Keegan (ESPN).
"Didier Drogba's had malaria, so he's not 100 per cent fit for whatever reason."Glenn Hoddle (Sky Sports).
"Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts."Ray Wilkins (Sky Sports).
"Barcelona play football to die of."Micky Quinn (TalkSPORT).
"The trouble with the transfer window is it creates a window where transfers have to be done."Gary Neville (Sky Sports).
RORY’S YEAR
"I can't come off and sulk – a bad day at the golf course is better than a good day at the office."On his Masters woes back in May.
"I love his little moxie, sorta the way he walks, sorta like he is cocksure about himself. I kinda like that in a guy."When Jack Nicklaus likes your moxie, you're half way there.
"Rory, Rory Hallelujah!"The crowd at Holywood Golf Club celebrating McIlroy's US Open triumph.
"McIlroy has never looked anything less than invincible this week: Barcelona in a three-button shirt." The Guardian'sLawrence Donegan pays the ultimate compliment.
"You've done so well for 13 holes to keep yourself in it, and then you've got half of Kent on your left and you hit it right."Back down to earth at the British Open.
