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MANAGERS
'If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen ' - TERRY VENABLES

'We keep kicking ourselves in the foot' - RAY WILKINS

'An inch or two either side of the post and it would have been a goal.' - DAVE BASSETT

'In football, if you stand still you go backwards.' - PETER REID

'The lads ran their socks into the ground.' - ALEX FERGUSON

'We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps.' - BRUCE RIOCH

'The spirit he has shown has been second to none.' - TERRY VENABLES on Terry Fenwick's drink-driving charge

'To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'No-one hands you cups on a plate' - TERRY MCDERMOTT

'Nowhere in Europe, especially the world...' - ALEX FERGUSON

'There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way.' - TERRY VENABLES

'The referee has a reputation for trying to make a name for himself.' - GRAEME SOUNESS

'If in winning we only draw we would be fine.' - JACK CHARLTON

'Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'It's a case of putting all our eggs into the next ninety minutes.' - PHIL NEAL

'Give him his head and he'll take it with both hands or feet.' - BOBBY GOULD

'Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.' - ALEX FERGUSON

'I would have to be deaf not to read the allegations.' - BOBBY DOWNES

'Neil Lennon wasn't sent off for scoring a goal, and that's what annoys me.' - MARTIN O'NEILL

'Last night,we were the best team on the day.' - ROY AITKEN

'We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.' - BRYAN ROBSON

'I can't see us getting beat now - once we get our tails in front.' - JIM PLATT

'As we say in football, it'll go down to the last wire.' - COLIN TODD

'They had a dozen corners, maybe 12 - I'm guessing.' - CRAIG BROWN

'I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first you have to score twice to win.' - HOWARD WILKINSON

'If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.' - ALEX FERGUSON

'If they hadn't scored, we would've won' - HOWARD WILKINSON

'You've got to miss them to score sometimes.' - DAVE BASSETT

'A contract on a piece of paper, saying you want to leave, is like a piece of paper saying you want to leave.' - JOHN HOLLINS

'In comparison, there's no comparison.' - RON GREENWOOD

'In terms of the Richter scale this was a force 8 gale.' - JOHN LYALL

'It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'Their football was exceptionally good - and they played some good football.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley - unless somebody knocks us out.' - DAVE BASSETT

'It's understandable and I understand that.' - TERRY VENABLES (that's him over there)

'Certain people are for me, certain people are pro me.' - TERRY VENABLES

'If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.' - TERRY VENABLES

'Hoddle hasn't been the Hoddle we know. Neither has Robson.' - RON GREENWOOD

'Well, we got nine and you can't score more than that.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Outside of quality we had other qualities' - BERTIE MEE

'Our first goal was pure textile.' - JOHN LAMBIE

'To be talking about vital games at this stage of the season is ridiculous, really, but tomorrow's game is absolutely vital.' - BRIAN HORTON

'What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.' - GERRY FRANCIS

'If we played like this every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent.' - BRYAN ROBSON

'A lot of hard work went into this defeat.' - MALCOLM ALLISON

'It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.' - JACK CHARLTON

'We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.' - JACK CHARLTON

'The first 90 minutes are the most important.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'I promise results, not promises.' - JOHN BOND

'Without picking out anyone in particular, I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.' - GRAEME SOUNESS

'It would be a nice scalp for Scunthorpe to put Wimbledon on our bottoms.' - DAVE BASSETT

'Klinsmann has taken to English football like a duck out of water.' - GERRY FRANCIS

'Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.' - RON GREENWOOD

'We rode our luck, but that's what the goalposts are there for.' - JOE KINNEAR

'Even when you're dead, you must never allow yourself just to lie down and be buried.' - GORDON LEE

'We ended up playing football, and that's not our style.' - ALEX MacDONALD

'We got the winner with three minutes left, but then they equalised.' - IAN McNAIL

'Hagi is a brilliant player, but we're not going to get psychedelic over him' - ANDY ROXBURGH

'It's thrown a spanner in the fire.' - BOBBY GOULD

'Maybe not goodbye, but farewell...' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Home advantage gives you an advantage.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Eighteen months ago they (Sweden) were arguably one of the best three teams in Europe, and that would include Germany, Holland, Russia and anybody else if you like.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'There is great harmonium in the dressing room.' - SIR ALF RAMSEY

'There are 0-0's and 0-0's - and this was 0-0.' - JOHN SILLETT

'...when Flitcroft played for the A team, he had 'footballer' written all over his forehead.' - COLIN BELL

'Chester made it hard for us by having two players sent off.' - JOHN DOCHERTY

'When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1' - LAWRIE McMENEMY

'I'm definately maybe going to play Sturrock.' -JIM 'not Noel Gallagher' McLEAN

'I can count on the fingers of one hand ten games where we've caused our own downfall.' - JOE KINNEAR

'It would have killed them off a little bit.' - GERRY FRANCIS

'We've watched them twice, and seen a few videos. I didn't see them 38 times though, like McCarthy says he watched us. I don't think that's possible. I did my maths you see. That's 38 times 90 minutes - that's two months and the draw was only three weeks ago!" - GEORGES LEEKENS

'If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.' - JOE ROYLE

'I am often interested in players but I never say so, although I am looking for a striker and a midfield player.' - COLIN TODD

'We are not putting our cape over the tunnel : we are putting our cape in the tunnel.' - HOWARD WILKINSON

'They're not doing as well in the league as they've done.' - ROY HODGSON

'We have faced African teams, we have faced English teams - so we are ready to face Scotland because we know what their play will be like.' - MARIO ZAGALLO

'The way forwards is backwards.' - DAVE SEXTON

'The one thing I didn't expect is the way we didn't play.' - GEORGE GRAHAM

'We just ran out of legs.' - DAVID PLEAT

'I like to think it's a case of crossing the i's and dotting the t's.' - DAVE BASSETT

'He's such an honest person it's untrue.' - BRIAN LITTLE

"When you score one goal more than the other team in a cup tie it is always enough.' - CESARE MALDINI

'What he's got is legs, which the other midfielders don't have.' - LENNIE LAWRENCE

'It's certainly a point not gained.' - COLIN TODD

'My own autobiography, which was written by Ian Ross...' - HOWARD KENDALL

'Hartson's got more previous than Jack the Ripper.' - HARRY REDKNAPP

'The important thing is he shook hands with us over the phone.' - ALAN BALL

'You must be as strong in March, when the fish are down.' - GIANLUCA VIALLI

'When a player gets to 30, so does his body.' - GLENN HODDLE

'I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.' - GLENN HODDLE

'His tackle was definately pre-ordained.' - GLENN HODDLE

'I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.' - GLENN HODDLE

'If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.' - GLENN HODDLE

'75% of what happens to Paul [Gascoigne] in his life is fiction.' - GLENN HODDLE

'We didn't have the run of the mill.' - GLENN HODDLE

'With hindsight, it's easy to look at it with hindsight.' - GLENN HODDLE

'Okay, so we lost, but good things can come from it - negative and positive.' - GLENN HODDLE

'Robert Lee was able to do some running on his groin for the first time.' - GLENN HODDLE

'International football is one clog further up the football ladder.' - GLENN HODDLE

'He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.' - GLENN HODDLE

'Michael Owen is a goalscorer - not a natural born one, not yet, that takes time' - GLENN HODDLE


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'We pressed the self-destruct button ourselves' - BRIAN KIDD

'We can beat anyone on our day, so long as we score.' - ALEX TOTTEN

'We had enough chances to win this game. In fact, we did win.' - ALEX SMITH

'I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.' - JOE ROYLE

'I just wonder what would have happened if the shirt had been on the other foot.' - MIKE WALKER

'Some of our players have got no brains, so I've given them the day off tomorrow to rest them.' - DAVID KEMP

'I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.' - MICK MCCARTHY

'The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.' - TERRY BUTCHER

'There's a rat in the camp trying to throw a spanner into the works.' - CHRIS CATTLIN

'I'm the one with his head on the line.' - CHRIS WADDLE

'We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other three per cent that cost us the match.' - RUUD GULLIT

'Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.' - ARSENE WENGER

'Winning all the time is not necessarily good for the team.' - JOHN TOSHACK

'Too many players were trying to score or create a goal.' - GERARD HOULLIER

'I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.' - JACK CHARLTON

'You weigh up the pros and cons and try to put them into chronological order.' - DAVE BASSETT

'It was not a mistake, it was a blunder.' - GERARD HOULLIER

'We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.' - ALAN BUCKLEY

'The effort I think you should take for granted, but sometimes it's not there.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'We're down to the bare knuckles.' - GEORGE GRAHAM

'Nothing that UEFA or FIFA do surprises me any more and I'm very surprised this has not been sorted out long in advance.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'He made the impossible possible.' - ARSENE WENGER

'Davor has a left leg and a nose in the box.' - ARSENE WENGER

'We've got to get out there and set our stool out early.' - KEITH STEVENS

'Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.' - GRAEME SOUNESS

'We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.' - MICK McCARTHY

'To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.' - STUART McCALL

'Of the ten sendings off, nine have been different players, so it proves we're unlucky.' - KEITH STEVENS

'It was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other.' - RON NOADES

'I don't read everything I read in the press.' - DAVE JONES

'The best thing for them to do is to stay at nil-nil until they score the goal.' - MARTIN O'NEILL

'If we'd won, it would have meant an historic double-treble. But we weren't even thinking about that.' - WALTER SMITH

'People always remember the second half.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'I strongly feel that the only difference between the two teams were the goals that England scored.' - CRAIG BROWN

'I just felt that the whole night, the conditions and taking everything into consideration and everything being equal, and everything is equal, we should have got something from the game - but we didn't.' - JOHN BARNES

'It wasn't going to be our day on the night.' - BRYAN ROBSON

'We are now entering a new Millennium and football's a completely different cup of tea.' - DAVE BASSETT

'I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.' - DAVID PLATT

'This pilot move by FIFA will take root and fly.' - ALEX FERGUSON

'I am manager of Macclesfield and am giving the job my total commitment. Obviously, as an Irishman, I want the job as their international manager.' - SAMMY MCILROY

'It's a conflict of parallels.' - ALEX FERGUSON

'The main thing in a cup tie is to get through.' - WALTER SMITH

'I was a young lad when I was growing up.' - DAVID O'LEARY

'There are no easy games in this division and this one won't be easy.' - JOE ROYLE

'Their keeper played very well and it was not the best pitch, but I am not making excuses.' - GRAHAM RIX

'The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.' - ALEX FERGUSON

'It would be foolish to believe that automatic promotion is automatic in any way whatsoever.' - DAVE BASSETT

'I'm not going to look beyond the semi-final - but I would love to lead Newcastle out at the final.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'In one word, it is bloody stupidity' - CLAUDE LE ROY

'We had a belief that we believed in' - JAN MOLBY

'At the start of the season you're strong enough to win the Premiership and the European Cup, but you have to be as strong in March, when the fish are down' - GIANLUCA VIALLI

'I was inbred into the game by my father.' - DAVID PLEAT

'We have run a marathon and fallen just short so we need to boost the squad to get us over that final hurdle' - JOHN RUDGE

'If it comes to penalties, one of these two great sides could go out on the whim of a ball.' - PETER SHREEVES

'As I've said before and I've said in the past...' - KENNY DALGLISH

'He's captain of Rangers, and that's one of the reasons he's captain.' - WALTER SMITH

'We pulled the self destruct button' - COLIN LEE

'Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving.' - MICK McCARTHY

'I've spoken to five managers in the past eight days and 85% of them have called me to chat about my players' - MARTIN O'NEILL

'In football, time and space are the same thing.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.' - BRYAN ROBSON

'Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year.' - ALAN SMITH

'Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl - except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'It's a bit easier after that win over Newcastle. That's a result that takes us that little bit further from safety' - BRYAN ROBSON

'He was a no risk-free signing.' - STAN TERNENT

'The sight of opposing fans walking together down Wembley Way - you won't get that anywhere other than Wembley.' - JOHN SILLETT

'David [Johnson] has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.' - DAVID PLATT

'I don't know what it's like out there, but it's like an ice rink out there.' - ANDY KILNER

'It's not true. Technically you can say it’s true, yes.' - STEVE ARCHIBALD

'In a year's time, he's a year older.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'When Neil (Lennon) played for me, he ran his legs off.' - LAWRIE MCMENEMY

'We need goals when the scoreline is 0-0' - SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON

'In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time' - STEVE MCCLAREN

'It's a game we've got to win. It's also a game we've not got to lose.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'The past is history' - DAVE BASSETT

'We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs' - GIOVANNI TRAPPATONI

'If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target' - FABIO CAPELLO

'We are a good average team' - FRANZ BECKENBAUER

'It was caviar and cabbage stuff.' - PHIL THOMPSON

'I think one or two of our legs got a bit leg-weary.' - MICK McCARTHY

'I don't make promises, I promise results' - JOE ROYLE

'We played well for the first 90 minutes' - JOE ROYLE

'I've seen players sent off for worse than that' - JOE ROYLE

'He lacks that confidence which he possesses.' - MARTIN O'NEILL

'Some of the goals were good, some of the goals were sceptical' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result' - BOBBY ROBSON

'I don't hold water with that theory' - RON GREENWOOD

'The margin is very marginal' - BOBBY ROBSON

'We have been saying this, both pre-season and before the season started' - LEN ASHURST

'The run of the ball is not in our court at the moment' - PHIL NEAL

'We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Ian Durrant has grown both physically and metaphorically in the close season' - JOCK WALLACE

'At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch' - DON HOWE

'The boys' feet have been up in the clouds since the win' - ALAN BUCKLEY

'I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania' - RON GREENWOOD

'The dice are stacked against them' - THEO FOLEY

'I'm not superstitious or anything like that, but I'll just hope we'll play our best and put it in the lap of the gods' - TERRY NEILL

'If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players - THEO FOLEY

'Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future' - RON GREENWOOD

'Players win games and players lose games. It's all about players really.' - BOBBY FERGUSON

'His strengths were my weaknesses and my weaknesses were his strengths' - JOHN BOND

'I'm not going to make it a target but it's something to aim for' - STEVE COPPELL

'At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.' - STEVE COPPELL

'We are really quite lucky this year because Christmas falls on Christmas Day' - BOBBY GOULD

'Ardiles always says if you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence' - KEITH BURKINSHAW

'Systems are made by players rather than players making systems' - THEO FOLEY

'I don't really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City' - RON WYLIE

'I can't see us getting beat now, once we get our tails in front' - JIM PLATT

'Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.' - RON GREENWOOD

'To me personally, it's nothing personal to me' - RON GREENWOOD

'I felt a lump in my mouth as the ball went in.' - TERRY VENABLES

'I thought that individually and as a pair, they'd do better together' - BOBBY ROBSON

'One of Asa's great qualities is not scoring goals' - ROY SMALL

'Tim Sherwood has come in, done very well and given us another string to the bow in a different type of way.' - GLENN HODDLE

'If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket' - BOBBY ROBSON

'That was the way to nail the record to the mast' - GLENN HODDLE

'The FA Cup is still domestically the best cup in the world.' - GLENN HODDLE

'He’s got his legs back, of course, or his leg - he’s always had one but now he’s got two.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'I said to the players before the start, "Just go out and give it 100 per cent. I am not asking for any more than that".' - CARLTON PALMER

'Everyone's got tough games coming up. Manchester United have got Arsenal, Arsenal have got Manchester United and Leeds have got Leeds' - BOBBY ROBSON

'He’s not the Carl Cort that we know he is.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Last week's match was a real game of cat and dog.' - JOHN ALDRIDGE

'The mere fact that he's injured stops him getting injured again, if you know what I mean' - TERRY VENABLES

'Playing another London side could be an omen, but I don't believe in omens' - GEORGE GRAHAM

'No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret. But no, no regrets.' - MICK MCCARTHY

'Football is much harder if you don’t have the ball' - SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON

'The underdogs will start favourites for this match.' - CRAIG BROWN

'Overall I think we dominated for 75% of the game, but we have to make sure we do that for the other 15.' - DAVE JONES

'They haven’t lived up to the expectations we expect of them' - GEORGE GRAHAM

'It was particularly pleasing that our goalscorers scored tonight' - ALEX FERGUSON

'Our goalscoring is like ketchup, you never now how much is going to come out of the bottle' - TROND SOLLIED

'He’s gone in there with studs up and has cut someone in half, but I don’t want to criticise him' - JOHN GREGORY

'We played a 4-4-3 formation, which we have played before and never failed to win with it' - MARK MCGHEE

'Referees don’t come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on' - STEVE COPPELL

'If Ricardo Gardner should have been sent off, there should have been four players sent off for each side. So the match should have ended up six against six.' - SAM ALLARDYCE

'We have to roll up our sleeves and get our knees dirty' - HOWARD WILKINSON

'Steven Carr has hit a small blimp' - GLENN HODDLE

'It looks as if I am trying to stab Dave Bassett in the back but I’m not holding a gun to anybody’s head' - MICKEY ADAMS

'Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Our keeper only had one save to make but we lost 4-0' - CRAIG BROWN

'Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.' - TERRY VENABLES

'Terry Venables could do a Barcelona at Leeds, like he did in Barcelona' - TED BUXTON

'We are a young side that will only get younger' - PAUL HART

'I’d never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.' - GRAHAM TAYLOR

'The Italians can blame no one but themselves. They can blame the referee, but they can blame no one but themselves.' - JOE ROYLE

'We don't have to play them every week, although we do play them next week' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Until we're out of the Champions' League we're still in it.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.' - JOE ROYLE

'You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.' - GERARD HOULLIER

'As one door closes, another one shuts' - HOWARD WILKINSON

'Young David's young' - GLENN HODDLE

'We are offered players every single day. We get five or six a week' - JOHN MCCLELLAND

'We changed to a back four and went 4-4-3' - GLENN HODDLE

'Where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Gary Speed has never played better, never looked fitter, never been older.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'They've probably played better than they've ever done for a few weeks' - BOBBY ROBSON

'If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.' - NIGEL WORTHINGTON

'They can't change any of their players, but they have changed one of their players and that's the coach' - BOBBY ROBSON

'I’ve been asked that question for the last six months. It is not fair to expect me to make such a fast decision on something that has been put upon me like that.' - TERRY VENABLES

'Our goalkeeper didn’t have a save to make in 90 minutes, and yet he still ended up conceding four goals' - JOE ROYLE

'It will be a cracking match and a close one - maybe decided by a referee's decision, an odd bounce or something like an over-the-line goal.' - NEIL WARNOCK

'Matches don’t come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals' - NEIL WARNOCK

'Tore's got a groin strain and he's been playing with it.' - ALEX MCLEISH

'Obviously it would be tough playing up in the Premiership next season, but I wouldn’t lose any sleepless nights.' - ALAN PARDEW

'Of their goals, two came from headers and one was a header' - JOE ROYLE

'In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.' - STEVE BRUCE

'We've got a monster around our neck after beating England, but we must feed it' - FRANK FARINA

'As with every young player, he's only 18' - ALEX FERGUSON

'His influence on the team through his personality and playing ability cannot be underestimated.' - BOBBY ROBSON

'Dave has this incredible knack of pulling a couple of chickens out of the hat each season.' - MARK MCGHEE

'He's a good footballer with a bit of everything and certainly two good feet - which is unusual these days' - GLENN HODDLE

'As long as no-one scored, it was always going to be close' - ARSENE WENGER

'If we had taken our chances we would have won, at least' - DAVID O'LEARY

'Although we are playing Russian Roulette we are obviously playing Catch 22 at the moment and it’s a difficult scenario to get my head round' - PAUL STURROCK

'Every defeat is a victory in itself' - FRANCISCO MATURANA

'I will also take risks in the future. At least, it is good for everyone: our team, the crowd and also the opponent' - AAD DE MOS