They had the people to do the execution and if they didn't do it they probably would have been executed themselves Former Clare coach Tony Considine on the county board's decision to relieve him of his duties What's your priority? Your wife and her shopping or your football? If someone doesn't want to come to Scotland because their wife likes shopping in London, it's a sad state of affairs Roy Keane makes enemies of footballers' wives everywhere My fans want to see my wedding dress Coleen McLoughlin endears herself to Keane, no doubt, as she explains why she and Wayne Rooney are planning to sell pictures of their wedding to a magazine In Britain I would be abused. This is the first time I have ever been cool Celtic manager Gordon Strachan enjoys the Russians' love of redheads as his team travelled to play Spartak Moscow My reaction is . . . Unbelievable! We wanted to get to the All Ireland semi-final, and when we got here we got greedy and wanted to win it.

And we won't stop being greedy now we are into a final!

Greed is good as far as Limerick hurling manager Richie Bennis is concerned after his team beat Waterford last Sunday You've got to set yourself targets but it's not going to happen overnight.

It's going to take at least 10 years Steve Staunton talks about the FAI's new high-performance strategy. . . not his tenure as manager we hasten to add It's great to be back in the Premiership, even the smell of the hotdogs is great Birmingham's Steve Bruce has a real appetite for top flight football I went along with a mate who plays seven-a-side in South London.

Nobody knew who the hell I was, so there wasn't any danger . . . and after a few weeks without kicking a ball, my touch gave nothing away. I think they just assumed I was some kind of exchange student Fulham defender Mortiz Volz on how he spent his summer holidays I wasn't surprised when I saw Sven was saying no one had rung him.

They ring me. I'm hoping David Beckham texts me soon Teenager Christina Tambaros, who was reassigned SvenGoran Eriksson's phone number when he was ditched as England manager, on getting congratulatory messages from Les Reed and Gordon Taylor, and an offer to take an Inter Milan midfielder on a free transfer. She's mulling it over