We got jammed in the [bookmaker's] door in the rush to place bets. And money riding on Wembley not being ready was hardly an incentive to work harder.

Most of the bets were smaller, from brickies and fitters taking advantage of a guaranteed cert

A presumably wealthy electrician who was working on Wembley and took advantage of bookmakers offering odds on whether it would be ready for the FA Cup final I'm not the biggest fan of Elvis Presley. He's all right . . .he gets the job done. But he's not quite 50 Cent or Eminem British tennis's great white hope Andy Murray betrays the ignorance of youth before playing in Memphis Being a robot, devoid of passion and spirit is obviously the way forward for the modern-day footballer.

And I ask the authorities, 'Where is football being taken?'

Manchester United defender Gary Neville appears to think he's an MP after getting fined for celebrating in front of Liverpool fans Can Messi be suspended for acting? Barcelona is a very cultural city. You know all about theatre. You have theatres of high quality Jose Mourinho blows up the sarcasm detector after Asier Del Horno was sent off for fouling Lionel Messi during Chelsea's Champions league defeat to Barcelona Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains but you see ugly people who are intelligent scientists. Our pitch is a little bit like that. It doesn't look great but the ball rolls and bounces normally Mourinho on the Stamford bridge pitch, clearly losing the plot before Barcelona's visit When I'm in the street people show me a lot of affection, but I never get that inside the Bernabeu. I have never felt at home in the stadium. i have never felt loved there Ronaldo blubs to the press before doing very little to warrant adulation against Arsenal midweek With the kind of competition we face nowadays, winning one trophy is good, I'm telling you. No matter what it is, you have to take that as a successful season because there are teams who are not going to win a trophy this year . . . big clubs, maybe not as world-renowned as Manchester United, but certainly big, big clubs with great histories Alex Ferguson, grateful for anything at this stage