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A hair-raising issue for Dimitar Berbatov

ESPN staff
February 9, 2014
Don't worry Dimitar Berbatov - it happens to us all © PA Photos
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In the latest edition of our favourite quotes from the sporting week, David Moyes hits back at his critics, Dimitar Berbatov is losing his hair and Barry Hearn gives out some sound career advice.

"Look I got a cut in sparing yesterday. Should I do a haymaker & pull my next fight?? Lol p***y. I'm still fighting!"

Surprise, surprise - Tyson Fury still doesn't like David Haye

"That was f***ing embarrasing! Apologies to anyone who sat through 90mins of that game"

Wojciech Szczesny was not a happy bunny following Arsenal's humiliating defeat to Liverpool. And rightly so, as he did fetch the ball from the back his net five times

"I think people know that I have things in my mind that I want to do, what I want to change over time. I can't do it overnight"

But David Moyes can turn Manchester United into a struggling side overnight

"When he picks up a new set of darts he always needs a couple of weeks to get used to it. But it's not about him, I won the game"

Michael van Gerwen makes it clear he whitewashed Phil Taylor. Very clear.

"You can knock seven bells of s*** out of each other and have a pint with him afterwards"

Wales prop Adam Jones is looking forward to facing Cian Healy.

"The lads who are 22/23 might think like Dick Whittington that the streets of London are paved with gold, but as anyone who has lived down there like I did for three years will know it's not all sweetness and light'"

Sale Sharks boss Steve Diamond on Rob Miller and James Gaskell's decisions to join Wasps.

"It is a situation that didn't come off and that's it "

Arsene Wenger very quickly closed the subject on Luis Suarez

"At Dings Crusaders the pitch was full of sand, pebbles, glass.....hopefully Murrayfield won't be as bad as that! "

England's Joe Marler is not concerned by the anticipated mud bath at Murrayfield

"If you're good enough, you're going to change your life. And if you're not, you better get another job"

Barry Hearn is never short of a word or two

"It was a good kick up the backside for me"

Phil Taylor admits he deserved to lose his status as world No. 1 to Michael van Gerwen

"I don't have the same hair, but I'll try to show the best of myself "

Football a young man's game? Dimitar Berbatov, 33, is having none of it after his move to Monaco

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