Clive Tyldesley quotes:

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.

Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day

England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red.

If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.

He went through a non-existant gap.

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

That shot was going goalboundward

That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

Anelka was travelling so fast that he couldn't keep his own feet

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.