Read Graham Taylor, Simon Jordan and Ceefax in the latest selection from Len Capeling's year in quotes
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He's a child. He will get the sack this season. - The 10 little words that cost Laurent Robert £80,000. Unrepentant, he left Graeme Souness to stew and departed Newcastle for Portsmouth. Where he was soon found out
Sebastian Coe running barefoot. - David Beckham's asked for his most enduring Olympic memory ahead of London's successful bid for the 2012 game. He meant Zola Budd
I think the supporters are still behind me. A lot of people have been making excuses for me, but I'm not the one to make excuses. - James Beattie promising to do better for Everton
Valencia have taken the decision to sell him to Liverpool and he is happier now. - Mohamed Sissoko met David Moyes in Amsterdam but, waiting in the wings, was his exmanager Rafael Benitez. And not for the first time, Everton lost out
It changed me as a person because it made me look at life in a different way. It certainly helped me when I left Everton, though I'd be a liar if I said the parting didn't hurt me. You live and die for football, and that's the fans as well, but when you get something like I did, football comes second. - Leaving Goodison with a heavy heart, Everton skipper and lifelong Blue Alan Stubbs who was instrumental in the team's push into fourth place in the Premiership. But it was the calm before the whirlwind
I cannot imagine why punters are making such a fuss about Liverpool this season, they haven't got a prayer. It's time for them to put up or shut up. - Bookmaker and Manchester United follower William Done offering generous odds of 33-1 against Liverpool winning the Premiership. Coral said 16-1
The Best This Country Has To Offer. - Harrods owner Mohamed AlFayed wore a Fulham strip as part of this promotion, one of a variety of outfits he wore to underline the true superiority of his soccer club
Does anyone think Mark Hughes would tell us to go out and break someone's leg? That's nonsense. - Blackburn Rovers enforcer Aaron 'The Axe' Mpoena defending his team's aggressive style of play, which won them the nickname Blackeye Rovers
The game's gone soft. You see very few tackles being allowed. - Blackburn manager Mark Hughes, whose team finshed at the foot of the Fairplay League after 75 red and yellow cards. Club motto: Grrrr!
Our relationship is okay. But I admit it could be better, and that is something I am going to work on. - Strain showing between Steven Gerrard and his manager. Rafael Benitez denied there was any problem
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