What They’re Saying

“If you want me to be horrible, I can be horrible. Yet if you treat people with respect, they give you 100 percent. I have seen people being horrible to others and they receive nothing. I stick tomy philosophy and this won’t change it.” — West Ham coach Gianfranco Zola after his team’s co-owner David […]

“I don’t understand all the fuss. Avram loves massages. He’s the manager of Portsmouth. Do you know how tough that is? He’s a great manager stuck in a crappy team. He works so hard, he needstwo massages a day and from two women, not one.” — Tzofit Grant, the wife of Avram Grant, coach of […]

“They make the foul at the right part of the pitch, in the middle of the pitch, to stop a counterattack. A little push, not enough to be a yellow card. They have a lot of tricks and are veryexperienced. They do that very well. They got one or two decisions from the referee.” — […]

“It was always our intention to work together with Lens to reach this end, and both clubs have strengthened their relationship as a result of resolving this case to everyone’s satisfaction.” — Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck after the Court of Arbitration for Sport lifted the transfer ban on Chelsea after the EPL club reached an […]