QUOTES OF THE WEEK

People don’t want to know about a lack of resources, they want you to win the games. Your job is to get the best out of your team.

– Arsene Wenger reflects on his 809 Premier League matches in charge of Arsenal. He will reach 810 against Crystal Palace tonight to equal Alex Ferguson’s record for the most league matches as a manager.

My eyes just about popped out of my head. We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong. – Mary Horomanski, from Erie, Pennsylvania, got a shock when an online check of her bill showed she owed $284 billion (R3 trillion). The electricity provider later said the correct amount was $284.46.

He has himself to thank for his injury. –

The Supreme Court of Appeal rules on a bid by Willem Burger to claim

R6.7 million from farmer and former friend Gerhard van der Westhuizen after Burger injured his leg running away from an angry ostrich he had taunted and provoked.

I think if you get a bit of context to the Test rankings, with an incentive to get to the next level, with maybe a promotion-relegation type of thing, it’s worth looking at. Obviously we would like to play against the top countries but maybe we could play them at home so we can set up the conditions to favour us. – Zimbabwe cricket coach Heath Streak after the Proteas defeated the bottom-ranked Test team by an innings and 120 runs inside two days in the inaugural four-day daynight Test.