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Clash of the Titans

Steve Bruce and Gus Poyet were acting like a 'couple of children' © Getty Images

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In the latest edition of ESPN's Week in Words, Jose Mourinho gets angry (again), Steve Bruce and Gus Poyet act like children and Emre Can is a fan of Fleetwood Mac ...

"It is frightening to know what he could be worth"
So Liverpool won't be cashing in on Philippe Coutinho anytime soon, Brendan Rodgers?

"I wanted to kill the guy. He broke the rule"
Jose Mourinho reveals how his assistant Silvino Louro announced Liverpool had scored a second goal against Manchester City by jumping up on the Chelsea team bus ahead of the League Cup final

"If anyone thinks that international rugby is too difficult, then they have my telephone number"
France coach Philippe Saint-André in the wake of their loss at home to Wales

"I am fighting for my future, for my family's future and I want to give it everything"
John Terry also vowed never to play for another club after Chelsea

"Grown men acting like a couple of children"
Steve Bruce's reaction to a touchline altercation with Gus Poyet is pretty accurate, in fairness

"I certainly wasn't going to roll over and die"
Brendan Rodgers feared Liverpool would sack him after their defeat at Crystal Palace

"I am Emre Can and will go my own way"
Emre Can says he can never replace Steven Gerrard

"Looks like Frochy Froch remembered my name all of a sudden. That's good to know. Looks like the old man is still kicking"
Andre Ward says he is calling the shots

"It is a way of suggesting things. I am very irritated"
Fair to say Louis van Gaal wasn't too pleased at suggestions that he'd fallen out with Manchester United assistant manager Ryan Giggs

"If it happened to me and someone spat at my face or towards me then I think he'd be eating his supper through a straw that night"
Stoke forward Jonathan Walters was clearly not impressed by the Jonny Evans-Papiss Cisse saga

"Time to remove every item of clothing and run through the streets of Glasgow"
Andy Murray just wants to let it all hang out after James Ward's Davis Cup heroics

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