Tittle-Tackle #5

The Independent have collected some of Sir Alex Ferguson's best work. Here's an example:

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

Ah, yes, of course.

Tittle-Tackle #2

Roy Hodgson explains his managerial reputation to Nick Townsend:

Of course, my track record, if people bothered to study it, would put me in the same category as [Sir Alex] Ferguson enjoys today, but people don't talk about what I've done outside England," he says. "Here, they just talk about Blackburn Rovers, but that's just a very small part of a 26-year career. To most English journalists it's the only part. I've got an excellent track record in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and in Denmark, where FC Copenhagen was my last job before I went to Udinese. We won the league there by seven points. Admittedly, the fact that I walked out and went to Italy to some extent tarnished that reputation...