Quotes Of The Day

More skewering of the English language occured during the World Cup coverage yesterday. I love it. Henri Michel, Côte d'Ivoire manager, said this in French, though: "Experience can only come with games."

Does anyone know why we call them Côte d'Ivoire rather than the Ivory Coast? We don't call Spain "España", for example.

The commentator was getting excited about the names of the players yesterday. He said: "Super names they've got. And super players too. The Elephants they're known as, but they don't play like elephants... very light of tread."

On the officials: "A lot of decisions to be made for the officials here."

And on slow motion replays not being able to detect whether something's a foul or not: "The cameras are so fast these days."

When Dwight Yorke was struck painfully in the match against England, our commentator helpfully pointed out that he had been hit in the "Michael Ballacks."

Finally, there was a penalty for Spain in the game against Ukraine. The goalkeeper got a hand to it, but it went in. The commentator said: "It's a save, but only into the back of the net."