AFR’s Top 10 Quotes from the Past 10 Years.

AFR’s Top 10 Quotes from the Past 10 Years.

AFR’s Top 10 Quotes from the Past 10 Years.

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2000: "He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn’t score many goals. Apart from that he’s all right.“ - George Best on Beckham

2001: "How are England going to win in Germany? It hasn’t happened for 100 years. I have no doubts whatsoever that Germany will quite clearly thrash England. They will easily qualify for the World Cup with this match.” - Germany’s Uli Hoeness ahead of the World Cup qualifier which England won 5-1.

2002: "I would buy some bad players, get the sack and then retire to Cornwall.“ - Sheffield United boss Neil Warnock when asked what he would do if he were manager of rivals Sheffield Wednesday.

2003: "To put it in gentleman’s terms, if you’ve been out for a night and you’re looking for a young lady and you pull one, you’ve done what you set out to do. We didn’t look our best today but we’ve pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks they’re not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let’s have coffee.” - QPR boss Ian Holloway came up with the quote of the century to describe his team’s lacklustre performance against Chesterfield. [Video- inthestands]

2004:“He’s the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.” - Sir Bobby Robson’s assessment of Craig Bellamy.

2005: "We are preparing a special weightlifting plan for Gerrard’s shoulders because we want him to lift a lot of trophies for Liverpool in the next few years!“ - Rafa Benitez revealed his plans for captain Steven Gerrard following Liverpool’s stunning Champions League success.

2006: "You have to take it on the chin - or in my case, chins!” - Steve Bruce after Birmingham’s 7-0 thrashing by Liverpool in the FA Cup.

2007: "The style of how we play is very important. But it is omelettes and eggs. No eggs - no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.“ - Jose Mourinho was desperate for Chelsea to scramble a win from somewhere.

2008: "I’ve got more points on my licence!” - Derby manager Paul Jewell on his side’s meagre points total.

2009: "You ask 100 people, 99 will say it’s very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes.“ - Arsene Wenger after Hughes defended Emmanuel Adebayor’s stamp on Robin van Persie.

For more quotes of the decade, check out Chris Charles’ list for the BBC.

What are your favourites?