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Talking a good game
23rd June 2008
TALKING A GOOD GAME
"Scolari behaves like those people who ask to borrow our car, full of gas, they use it for a week and then they abandon it in a street somewhere, without gas, and don't even have the good manners to ring us up and tell us where the car is."
Manchester United assistant Carlos Queiroz will be looking forward to seeing Luiz Felipe Scolari in the Premiership next season.
"As the Prime Minister I have to be balanced and collected but on Thursday night I wanted to kill."
Polish PM Donald Tusk after English referee Howard Webb awarded a controversial last-minute penalty against Poland in their Group B match against Austria.
"I am not superstitous. It brings bad luck."
French coach Raymond Domenech before the France-Holland match.
BAD WEEK FOR RAYMOND DOMENECH
The French coach Raymond Domenech probably thought things couldn't get any worse after his side were sent crashing out of the European Championships following defeat to Italy on Tuesday. But during an interview after the match Domenech spontaneously proposed to his glamorous TV presenter girlfriend live on French television. Domenech's partner, Estelle Denis, who presents the Euro 2008 coverage on TF1, was visibly squirming at the proposal and managed to talk her way around giving an answer to desperate Domenech with the skill of a shrewd politician. Oh to have been a fly on the wall when the two next met off camera!
The French Football Federation will meet on July 3 to decide if Domenech will keep his job. Expect Domenech to be replaced by Didier Deschamps and the French coach to be frantically searching for the receipt to the diamond ring.
INTERESTING NEW CHALLENGE FOR McCLAREN
Sacked England manager Steve McClaren has decided to try to restore his tarnished reputation abroad after being confirmed as the new coach of FC Twente. The Dutch club are only two qualifying games away from the group stages of the Champions League. It could be the ideal club for McClaren to bring some pride back to his managerial CV away from the glare of the English media after a disappointing spell on the international scene.
START OF THE TRANSFER MADNESS
As the European Championships draw to a close the back pages of the newspapers are set to be dominated by the latest transfer speculation as clubs begin wheeling and dealing to bring in a few fresh faces before the start of the new season. Cristiano Ronaldo has already announced that he wants to seal a dream move to Real Madrid while Kris Boyd has been denied his dream of first-team football after Rangers reportedly turned down a bid for the striker from Cardiff City. However the transfer to raise most eyebrows so far surely has to be Paddy McCourt's move from Derry City to Celtic this week. Few Celtic fans will have heard of the winger who earned his only cap for Northern Ireland six years ago. However with a transfer fee somewhere between £50,000 and £200,000 it is perhaps a gamble Celtic can afford to take.
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