Off Topic Back to Said and Done

It's been a bit threadbare in the Said and Done cupboard but it has come back this week with a few good un's. Apologies to all Grammar and Spelling Nazi's. Anyway here goes:

Cameo of the week
6: Days between new Rangers director Chris Graham predicting “as far as the boardroom is concerned, the turmoil is over”, and resigning for tweeting a picture of the prophet Muhammad performing a sex act on Jar Jar Binks.

Football family news
•Zimbabwe’s FA auctioning off its office furniture due to “a debt quagmire”, a year after president Cuthbert Dube set out his plan to fix it. “Maybe some people will ask if I’m alright in my head, but we’re going to diversify into farming. Cattle ranching and crop farming. There’s no way you can fail.”

Manager news
• Jan: Ian Holloway on Millwall’s owner John Berylson: “He’s the owner I’ve wanted for years. And he’s the owner I’d die for. And if he ends up killing me with his sword it’ll be respectful, it’ll be right and it’ll be done correctly, and I’d have deserved it because I’d have let him down – at least in one year’s time.” 4 Mar: Berylson: “I am fully supportive of the manager”.11 Mar: Sacks him.

• Costa Rica, 9 Mar: Cartaginés president Daniel Vargas. “No, I’m not giving Enrique Meza a vote of confidence, because it’s not even an issue. We have never questioned the position of Enrique. It has never come up.” 12 Mar: It comes up.

Clarification of the week
France: Lyon owner Jean-Michel Aulas – asked if he’d apologise for branding a Twitter critic “autistic”. “No, where’s the offence? Autistic means someone who has a behavioural disorder. I know what I mean.” In December Aulas told another critic to “go to bed”; the boy, aged eight, hit back: “You’re not my father, you don’t set my bedtime.”

• Assessing Aulas’s record, Montpellier owner Louis “Loulou” Nicollin: “For some time now, Aulas has annoyed me. He talks too much, with no humility”. Also from Loulou last week – a verdict on Marseille coach Marcelo Bielsa. “Bielsa? Simply a dickhead. If he worked for me, I’d sack him.”

Crouching Tigres
Mexico: Tigres coach Ricardo Ferretti – sent to the stands for abuse – feeling “no regrets” after cameras caught him hiding from the referee behind seats in the back of his dugout instead. “He was wrong, my gestures were not expellable, so I stayed. There was no disrespect.”


Credit to the Granuiard

 

Good finds.