Supershorts: They said it

Chelsea's John Terry. Photo / Manu Fernandez

"I've been in football since I was 16: It's tough - you need beauty, good hair, good parties. But I like footballers, mainly those from Palmeiras, Corinthians, Sao Paulo, Internacional, Clube do Remo and Ponte Preta. It's amazing how they drink. And the ugly ones also understand that if they were builders we would not be with them - so they are grateful too."
- Brazilian model Melissa Natsumy. A deep and spiritual soul.

"He's rude. The fact he wears cashmere sweaters doesn't make him a gentleman."- Der Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer on Jose Mourinho.

"Mourinho is, plain and simple, the kind of guy who deserves to get smashed in the teeth with a club." - CEO of Catania soccer club Pietro lo Monaco fancies a round of golf with the Special One.

"Sanchez was darting in behind me. I've seen the replay and it does look bad." - Chelsea captain John Terry. He's seen the replay, he has.

"I'm not that type of player to intentionally hurt anyone. I've raised my knee, which I maybe shouldn't have done in hindsight. But hopefully people who know me as a person, as a player ... I'm not that type of player." - No, siree. John Terry definitely isn't the kind of player who would knee a bloke in the back when no one is looking. And if you believe the televised footage of said event taking place then you're clearly not John Terry.

"The Olympic rings have been whored around so much they've become valueless: a status symbol for a few corporations to tote like a badge for several weeks, impressing almost no one except themselves." - Charlie Brooker, in the Guardian, has a grumble about the Olympics.