Luton manager Mike Newell livens up his post-match press conference after referee's assistant Amy Rayner flagged for a corner from which QPR scored last week I want to apologise publicly to Amy Rayner and to anyone else I have offended. The comments I made were ill-timed and out of order Newell again, making one wonder when might have been a good time to make such comments We went through the proper channels and we reported it.

Obviously it was the work of a nut but nuts can be dangerous. I wouldn't have thought this is a unique situation. There is so much at stake and football has been likened many times to a new religion so you are going to get extremists who are going to take it too far Reading manager Steve Coppell after death threats were sent to Stephen Hunt and Ibrahima Sonko following their clashes with Chelsea's goalkeepers last month At least England have won a World Cup, which is more than we have managed to do Holland boss Marco van Basten wonders what England fans are complaining about I found out yesterday when I was out buying a loaf of bread. David Graveney, the chairman of selectors, left a message on my phone, but I thought it would just be one to all the Academy guys, saying 'good luck'. But when I heard it, it was one of those moments when I just sat with my mouth open. I couldn't believe it Ed Joyce reveals how he reacted to being called into England's Ashes squad as a replacement for Marcus Trescothick.

Once he strengthened up, you could do whatever you wanted on him. It was like driving a Ferrari rather than a Cortina Colin Brown, who won 17 races on great grey Desert Orchid, who died this week It's a bit too early yet to write my obituary. Any time you get beaten, it's disappointing, but life goes on and you have got to accept the result Mattie Murphy, who was defeated in a vote for Galway minor hurling manager despite leading them to four successive All Ireland finals, winning two There was nothing cynical behind it.

It's three years since we had a new jersey and we change our jersey every three years, so that's it Dublin GAA chairman Gerry Harrington answers criticisms of the new county jersey being put on sale in time for Christmas